bend

(Anglès)

Verb

1. (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
2. (intransitive) To become curved.
3. (transitive) To cause to change direction.
4. (intransitive) To change direction.
5. (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
6. (intransitive, usually) To stoop.
7. (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
8. (transitive) To force to submit.
9. (intransitive) To submit.
10. (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
11. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
12. (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
13. (transitive) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
14. (transitive) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
15. (intransitive) To swing the body when rowing.

Noun

1. A curve.
2. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
3. (in-plural) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
4. One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
5. (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
6. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
7. Hard, indurated clay; bind.
8. (in-plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
9. (in-plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
10. A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another, especially one accomplished by bending a string (such as on guitar).

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/bɛnd/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: benden

Heretat de anglès antic: bendan

Cognat amb alt alemany mitjà: benden

Cognat amb danès: bænde

Cognat amb noruec: bende

Cognat amb feroès: benda

Cognat amb islandès: benda

In summary

From Middle English benden, from Old English bendan (“to bind or bend (a bow), fetter, restrain”), from Proto-West Germanic *bandijan, from Proto-Germanic *bandijaną (“to bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to bind, tie”).
Cognate with Middle High German benden (“to fetter”), Danish bænde (“to bend”), Norwegian bende (“to bend”), Faroese benda (“to bend, inflect”), Icelandic benda (“to bend”). Related to bind, band, bond.

Conceptes

doblegar

flectir

corba

tòrcer

torçar

corbar

revolt

inclinar

trenar

doblar

flexionar

retorçar

doblec

encorbar

enroscar

inclinar-se

tòrçar

encorbar-se

enguerxir

giragonsa

replec

banda

séc

blegar

corbar-se

estirar

inflexió

prèmer

tesar

tibar

Sinònims

curve

bow

🙇

twist

fold

turn

stoop

crook

flex

incline

warp

lean

curvature

slant

arch

tilt

bent

bend down

sag

wind

flexure

yield

winding

lower

crookedness

crouch

bending

meander

inflect

distort

corner

curl

double

deflect

crease

draw

coil

huddle

tip

slope

submit

flexion

break

deform

decline

turn away

crooked

strain

buckle

contort

make crooked