bend

Bedeutung (Englisch)

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).

Konzepte

biegen

beugen

krümmen

Kurve

neigen

Biegung

sich biegen

sich krümmen

verbiegen

sich beugen

Krümmung

knote

sich neigen

drehen

verdrehen

flektieren

sich winden

Schrägbalken

kippen

winden

sich bücken

rundbiegen

wölben

Falte

Bogen

🙇

anwinkeln

Verzerrung

krumm machen

schräg stellen

sich verdrehen

umdrehen

umbiegen

durchbiegen

Knick

schräg legen

Bodenfalte

sich biegen lassen

abbiegen

niederbeugen

Rumpfbeuge

seitwärts neigen

elastisch sein

flexibel sein

geschmeidig werden

abfedern

anspannen

anziehen

aufziehen

ausspannen

Balken

Synonyme

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

Übersetzungen

courber

plier

buigen

doblar

piegare

curvar

curvare

fléchir

incliner

pencher

dobrar

curva

curva

curvar

tordre

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/bɛnd/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: benden

Geerbt von Altenglisch: bendan

Verwandt mit Mittelhochdeutsch: benden

Verwandt mit Dänisch: bænde

Verwandt mit Norwegisch: bende

Verwandt mit Färöisch: benda

Verwandt mit Isländisch: 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.