Definition of Bend

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Definition of Bend

Bend

To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.

To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.

To apply closely or with interest; to direct.

To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.

To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.

To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.

To jut over; to overhang.

To be inclined; to be directed.

To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.

A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road.

Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.

A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post.

The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.

Hard, indurated clay; bind.

same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.

A band.

One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base.

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Bend Quotations

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller

What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.
Robert H. Schuller

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Robert Kennedy

If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.
Joan Rivers

I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
Joan Rivers

I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.
Joan Rivers

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
Albert Camus

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Andrew Jackson

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Saint Francis de Sales

We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!
Yasser Arafat

Bend Translations

bend in Afrikaans is buig
bend in Dutch is ombuigen, buigen, doorbuigen
bend in Finnish is kallistaa, taivuttaa
bend in French is pencher, courbons, ployer, cambrons, courbez
bend in Italian is piegare, piegare, virata, curvatura
bend in Latin is arcus
bend in Portuguese is curvatura
bend in Spanish is curva, curvatura, doblegar, encorvadura, inclinar

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