bend

Signification (English)

Verb

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

Noun

1. A curve.
2. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
3. 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. 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. 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.

Concepts

courber

plier

pencher

incliner

fléchir

tordre

courbe

ployer

virage

se courber

tourner

coude

s’incliner

faire céder

tournant

faire plier

infléchir

arquer

pli

se pencher

courbure

baisser

pousser

bande

prédiposer

inflexion

faire fléchir

inciter

couder

faire pencher

porter

gîter

incurver

noeud

plié

se baisser

se concentrer sur

se tordre

tortiller

être influencé par qqun

inclinder

ajust

ahut

ajus

arc

🙇

ajut

bander

barre

basculer

battre

céder

décliner

déformer

détour

détourner

dévier

fléchissement

gaspiller

genou

perron

récolter

ruiner

saluer

s’appliquer

se balancer

se plier

se prosterner

se tapir

vider

virer

🐻

ajuste

cambrer

cintrer

corder

donner un coup de poing

faire une entorse à

Synonyms

curve

bow

🙇

twist

fold

turn

stoop

crook

flex

incline

warp

lean

curvature

slant

arch

tilt

bent

wind

bend down

flexure

sag

lower

crookedness

winding

crouch

yield

corner

curl

inflect

distort

meander

bending

double

deflect

crease

draw

submit

huddle

coil

tip

slope

strain

decline

deform

turn away

buckle

contort

flexion

make crooked

crooked

break

bend dexter

be crooked

curving

sway

give way

hook

🪝

inflection

plication

crumple

hunch

flection

crimp

break off

wriggle

bend over

distortion

divert

induce

stretch

become bent

knot

🪢

roll

arc

give

shift

shrink

persuade

hang

curl up

incurvate

swerve

inflexion

river bend

become crooked

cause to bend

careen

obey

conjugate

wave

👋

conjugation

curved

droop

turn up

inclination

elbow

wrench

🔧

wrest

contract

blunt

turning

list

turn down

be bent

crank

pull down

lean over

diffract

ruin

shake

shunt

sidetrack

sink

sinuosity

sinus

slouch

snake

🐍

spin

squander

squat

stanza

stave

stooped

straighten

strangle

strech

strike

stubborn

succumb

sweep

swing

swing about

switchback

swivel

tack

take

tear

tendency

tense

tighten

tipping

truckle

tuck

turn around

turn back

turn in

turning-point

turn off

turnover

turn round

turns

twiddle

tying

veer

veering

verticil

wale

weigh down

wheel

🛞

wheeling

whirl

wind up

withdraw

wrap around

wrap up

wring

writhe

yaw

zigzag

be flexible

bow to

break in half

fold back

incline toward

listen carefully

make hooked

stoop down

tie together

twist and turn

yield to

twist up

be daunted

make tense

geologic fold

be swayed by

turn-round

stress

be soft

cut notches

bent down

be curled up

crook back

curve up

roll into a coil

wheel around

turn towards a person

become curved

change state

swing around

flexture

bend over backward

make something curved

translate

persuade or bend

acclivity

aim at

angle

arched

attract

avert

backtrack

bandage

bank

🏦

be inclined

bent over

be stretched tight

bias

binding

bob

bow down

bowed

bowing

break up

bring around

bring round

buckle under

buckling

bully

burl

camber

cant

circle

⭕

circumvolution

compel

comply

concentrate

concentrate on

connect

convert

cower

crinkle

crossing

crux

curb

deflection

depart

deviate

digress

direct

direction

double up

drag

duck

🦆

elastic

empty

eschew

fasten

fastening

flair

flee

flutter

folded

go for

gradient

harvest

hem

hold up

hump

hunker

inclined

indent

inhale

injustice

inverse

jog

kink

knee

knob

knop

knuckle under

lacing

lay down

leaning

lout

marcel

master

misshape

move

node

notch

nub

obstinate

penchant

pick

⛏️

pitch

pleat

ply

prevail

proclivity

pronate

propensity

protrusion

pull

rack

ram

🐏

recline

refract

relax

rock

🪨

rotate

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/bɛnd/

Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen anglais: benden

Inherited from ancien anglais: bendan

Cognate with moyen haut-allemand: benden

Cognate with danois: bænde

Cognate with norvégien: bende

Cognate with féroïen: benda

Cognate with islandais: 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 band, bond.