bend

Signification (Anglais)

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).

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

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ajut

bander

barre

basculer

battre

Synonymes

curve

bow

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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

Traductions

buigen

biegen

doblar

beugen

piegare

curvar

curvare

krümmen

Kurve

curva

curva

curvar

dobrar

Biegung

neigen

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/bɛnd/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: benden

Hérité de ancien anglais: bendan

Appartenant à moyen haut-allemand: benden

Appartenant à danois: bænde

Appartenant à norvégien: bende

Appartenant à féroïen: benda

Appartenant à 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 bind, band, bond.