Word Finder - bends

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A curve.

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There's a sharp bend in the road ahead.

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Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.

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(in the plural, underwater diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.

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A diver who stays deep for too long must ascend very slowly in order to prevent the bends.

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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.

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Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.

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In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.

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Hard, indurated clay; bind.

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(in the 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.

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(in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.

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the midship bends

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A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.

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To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.

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Don’t bend your knees.

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To become curved.

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Look at the trees bending in the wind.

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To cause to change direction.

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To change direction.

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The road bends to the right

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To be inclined; to direct itself.

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(usually with "down") To stoop.

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He bent down to pick up the pieces.

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To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.

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To force to submit.

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They bent me to their will.

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To submit.

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I am bending to my desire to eat junk food.

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To apply to a task or purpose.

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He bent the company's resources to gaining market share.

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To apply oneself to a task or purpose.

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He bent to the goal of gaining market share.

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To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.

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To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.

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Bend the sail to the yard.

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To smoothly change the pitch of a note.

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You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure.

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To swing the body when rowing.

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The thickest and strongest planks in a wooden ship's side, wales.

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A sometimes fatal condition resulting from the formation of nitrogen bubbles in the blood and tissues, because of too rapid decompression, seen especially in deep-sea divers ascending rapidly from a dive. It is characterized by severe pains in the joints and chest, skin irritation, cramps, nausea, and paralysis.

It also bends round the liver as shown FIG.

For the greater part of its course it flows in a south-westerly direction, but near Pertuis gradually bends N.W.

Such bends are called mono- FIG.

It was a brief lapse of concentration from his purpose at hand, catching the yellow-clad figure flowing through the curves and bends below him.

Shortly after reaching Neheim it bends to the south-west, courses through the mining district around Hagen, and receives from the left the waters of the Lenne.

It has a river-frontage of 4.1 m., the Thames making two deep bends, enclosing the Isle of Dogs on the north and a similar peninsula on the Greenwich side.

The Garonne rises in the valley of Aran (Spanish Pyrenees), enters France near Bagnres-de-Luchon, has first a north-west course, then bends to the north-east, and soon resumes its first direction.

These features are especially marked when the river, after leaving the Basses-Alpes, soon bends N.W.

In its middle course the Daua has cut a deep narrowvalley through the plain; lower down it bends N.E.

Hitherto from Oxford its course, though greatly winding, has lain generally in a southerly direction, but it now bends eastward, and breaches the chalk hills in a narrow gap, dividing the Chilterns from the downs of Berkshire or White Horse Hills.

After passing Reading it bends northward to Henley (65), eastward past Great Marlow (57) to Bourne End (54), and southward to Taplow and Maidenhead (494), receiving the Loddon on the right near Shiplake above Henley.

Then the curve bends over, forming what is often called a " knee," and a third stage is entered upon, during which a considerable increase of magnetizing force has little further effect upon the magnetization.

When the curve after its steep descent has almost reached the axis, it bends aside sharply and becomes a nearly horizontal straight line; the authors suggest that the critical temperature should be defined as that corresponding to the point of maximum curvature.

Here it bends south again, and with many a zigzag continues its general westerly direction, crossing the arid plains of Bechuana, Bushman and Namaqualands.

When a part of the body has found some projection of the ground which affords it a point of support, the ribs are drawn more closely together, on alternate sides, thereby producing alternate bends of the body.

The hinder portion of the body being drawn of ter, some part of it (c) finds another support on the rough ground or a projection; and, the anterior bends being stretched in a straight line, the front part of the body is propelled (from a to d) in consequence.

The conventional representation of the progress of a snake, in which its undulating body is figured as resting by a series of lower bends on the ground whilst the alternate bends are FIG.

Also the notion that snakes when attacking are able to jump off the ground is quite erroneous; when they strike an object, they dart the fore part of their body, which was retracted in several bends, forwards in a straight line.

To the south Lebanon ends about the point where the river Litany bends westward, and at Banias.

The Eildon Tree Stone, a large moss-covered boulder, lying on the high road as it bends towards the west within 2 m.

It now bends due south to Oldesloe, from which point it is navigable.

All derived existence, however, has a drift towards, a longing for, the higher, and bends towards it so far as its nature will permit.

In many places there are different channels for high and low water, the latter being partly filled by each freshet, and recut after each subsidence; and the river meanders tortuously through the alluvial bottom in scores of great bends, loops and cut-offs.

In order to secure tightness in spite of cracks, mercury was placed in the bends.

Once more the chain bends to the north-west, rising in several lofty peaks (the highest is the Aiguille de la Grande Sassiere, 12,323 ft.), before attaining the considerable depression of the Little St Bernard Pass.

Thence after a short dip to the south-east, our chain takes near the Great St Bernard Pass the generally eastern direction that it maintains till it reaches Monte Rosa,whence it bends northwards, making one small dip to the east as far as the Simplon Pass.

Thence to the Reschen Scheideck Pass the main chain is ill-defined, though on it rises the Corno di Campo (10,844 ft.), beyond which it runs slightly north-east past the sources of the Adda and the Fra g ile Pass, sinks to form the depression of the Ofen Pass, soon bends north and rises once more in the Piz Sesvenna (10,568 ft.).

Our chain bends northeast near the Radstddter Tauern Pass, and preserves that direction through the Lesser Tauern Alps to the Semmering Pass.

The sudden widening is due to the great Judicaria fault, which runs from Lago d'Idro to the neighbourhood of Meran, where it bends round to the east.

South of Siwa the frontier, according to the Turkish firman of 1841, bends eastward, approaching the cultivated Nile-land near Wadi Halfa, i.e.

It rises in the north of the province of Cuenca, at the foot of the Cerro de San Felipe (59 06 ft.), and flows south past Cuenca to the borders of Albacete; here it bends towards the east, and maintains this direction for the greater part of its remaining course.

Between Kala Wamar (6580 ft.) and Kala Khum (4400 ft.), where the Oxus again bends southwards, its course to the north-west is almost at right angles to the general strike of the Darwaz mountains, which is from north-east to south-west, following the usual conformation of all this part of high Asia.

Short, sharp bends which are readily made in thin sheets cannot be done in thick plates, as the metal would be stressed too much in the outer layers.

Closely allied to the Scotch pine, and perhaps to be regarded as a mere alpine form of that species, is the dwarf P. montana (or P. Pumilio), the " kummholz " or " knieholz " of the Germans - a recumbent bush, generally only a few feet high, but with long zigzag stems, that root occasionally at the knee-like bends where they rest upon the ground.

Between the Douro and Tagus the Vouga rises in the Serra da Lapa and reaches the sea through the lagoon of Aveiro; the Mondego flows north-east through a long ravine in the Serra da Estrella, and then bends back so as to flow west-south-west.

Throughout its course from its confluence with the Arghandab to the ford of Chahar Burjak, where it bends northward, the Helmund valley is a narrow green belt of fertility sunk in the midst of a wide alluvial desert, with many thriving villages interspersed amongst the remains of ancient cities, relics of Kaiani rule.

On the north slope of this peninsula, where the plain ends and the coast abruptly bends to the west, stands the town of Castellammare, near the site of Stabiae, at the foot of Monte Sant' Angelo, which rises suddenly from the sea to a height of 4722 ft.

After passing through four tunnels the road bends north (leaving the Guiers Mort which flows past St Pierre de Chartreuse), and the valley soon opens to form the upland hollow in which are the buildings of the convent.

At Silistria the river bends N.N.E.

X and Y are the upper and lower bends respectively.

It also contained numerous bends and sharp curves, sources of the greatest difficulty to navigation.

This work, designed in 1857, but unexecuted during a quarter of a century, owing to insufficiency of funds, was completed in 1882; and in 1886, after other comparatively short cuttings had been made to get rid of difficult bends and further to deepen the channel without having to resort to dredgers, the desired minimum depth of 15 ft.

These have shortened the length of the Sulina canal by i 1 nautical m., eliminated all the difficult bends and shoals, and provided an almost straight waterway 34 m.

You also need to bear in mind any particularly arduous hills, tight bends or islands, speed bumps or narrow lanes.

The roads were great, smooth, dry and with wide sweeping bends and lovely picturesque villages with breathtaking views.

I'll not cross the road on sharp bends or near the top of hills.

The pitch is followed by a further 3m descent to a rift-like passage forming two right-angled bends.

Riders losing control through left-hand bends accounted for four of these incidents, two of these resulted in death.

Combe is renowned for its challenging corners and tight bends.

The car lurches around hairpin bends, its wheels inches from the edge.