(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.
(v. t.) To apply closely or with interest; to direct.
(v. t.) To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.
(v. i.) To jut over; to overhang.
(v. i.) To be inclined; to be directed.
(v. i.) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
(n.) A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post.
(n.) The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.
(n.) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
(n.) same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.
(n.) A band.
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fifty-two pairs of canine femora were tested to failure in four-point bending.
(2) Think of Nelson Mandela – there is a determination, an unwillingness to bend in the face of challenges, that earns you respect and makes people look to you for guidance.
(3) This behavior consists of a very rapid bend of the body and tail that is thought to arise from the monosynaptic excitation of large primary motoneurons by the Mauthner cell.
(4) Intrinsic bending of the 527-bp fragment (bend center approximately at bp 240) was represented as a composite of at least two components located near bp 170 and near bp 260.
(5) We found that the Gallie system generally allowed significantly more rotation in flexion, extension, axial rotation, and lateral bending than the other three fixation techniques.
(6) After a hiatus, Smith is back with a flourish for her genre-bending new novel How to be Both , and David Mitchell has been longlisted for a third time, for The Bone Clocks .
(7) The developed apparatus included ultrasonic generators operating at a frequency of 0.5-3 MHz, piezoceramic radiators of various design providing the heating of an object with convergent, divergent and plane ultrasonic waves, thermoprobes in the form of single or multiple thermocouples with the bends from 5 points at a 5 mm distance from one another, temperature meters and various auxiliaries.
(8) Optical diffraction measurements on electron micrographs of the bend demonstrate that the axostyle tubules slide over one another and that the tubules on the inside of a bend usually contract, sometimes by as much as 25%.
(9) Temperature decline through the region of 10 degrees C caused a number of spermatozoa in buffer to undergo a sudden asymmetric bending of the flagellum in the region of the midpiece.
(10) This large increase in power output can be accommodated without an increase in metabolic rate only if internal viscous resistances to flagellar bending are relatively low.
(11) I was asked, as still the home secretary, would you bend on ID cards, and we'd put all our bits in, and we thought we could get a deal here.
(12) We measured the stiffness of comparable configurations (1 or 2 bars) under axial compression, four-point-bending in two planes, and torsion.
(13) The criteria of failure of pedicular instrumentation or "death" of an implant were defined as 1) screw bending, 2) screw breakage, 3) infection, 4) loosening of implants, 5) any rod or plate hardware problems, or 6) removal of hardware due to a neurologic complication.
(14) Static and fatigue testing of representative samples by the simultaneous application of compressive and bending loads to the maximum values specified by international standards exposed no failures by the time a million cycles had been reached.
(15) My Paul Nuttalls routine has floated back up the U-bend | Stewart Lee Read more Nuttall told Marr that “nothing should be a sacred cow in British politics.
(16) Using fluorescence energy transfer, the extent of DNA bending was estimated by measuring the end-to-end distance of the DNA fragment which was labeled with a donor-acceptor pair on two opposite ends.
(17) Future ice loss and bending of the crust due to rising sea levels have the potential ultimately to raise levels of both earthquake and volcanic activity.
(18) In addition, the ability to bend DNA is retained by a small proteolytic fragment of the protein, suggesting that the DNA-binding domain of the protein is resistant to proteases and is sufficient to bend DNA.
(19) As in our previous studies, the modulus of elasticity in bending was significantly less than the value obtained in tension for only the smaller cross-sectional wires.
(20) Assuming no future environmental or lifestyle changes, the upward trend in age-adjusted mortality rates, which averaged 2 to 3% per annum since 1950, is projected to discontinue and bend downward by the second decade of the 21st century.
Bendy
Definition:
(a.) Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mariah Carey 's need for a staff member to carry her drink and prop up the bendy bit of her straw is what makes me love her so much.
(2) It's bendy, has no pavements and the speed limit is 60mph.
(3) Let them stop telling us about the bendiness of our bananas, stop telling us how many hours we should work in a week, and concentrate on the big-ticket issues like climate change, like making sure that the lights stay on in the European energy market.
(4) Don’t be surprised if your Instagram feed is filled with photos of bendy people twisting their bodies into elaborate shapes today.
(5) When I was young, vegetarianism was still a cult activity practised by filthy, bendy-boned hippies or mawkishly sentimental teenage girls who would probably be keen to renege on the whole non-meat-eating deal if only they had the strength to lift a whole steak into a pan.
(6) You do have to handle it with care when it’s full of hot coffee, but we found the bendiness to be a massive plus since it can easily be squished into a full bag.
(7) His pragmatism is so bendy that I’d even prefer him to have a principle that I disagreed with than to stomach more of his PR sincerity.
(8) Unlike the other cups on this list it isn’t rigid, but bendy like rubber.
(9) I drank four times more on Saturday, but I was at my pre-birthday dinner party with chums and we all rather overdid it, which helped us to forget our impairments: irregular heartbeats, poorly knees, high blood pressure, Sjögren's syndrome, indigestion, arthritis, un-bendy back, tinnitus, trigger-finger and mild Murray Valley fever virus.
(10) That uber-gag supplies a mind-bendy frame for Acaster’s deliciously pernickety comedy .
(11) We've also got some goats having the time of their lives on a piece of bendy metal which has been positioned in their field.
(12) Why didn’t I shag a builder, or a bendy yoga dullard?
(13) Slippery and more bendy than existing notes, but just as easy to fold.
(14) The Labour mayoral candidate, whose "bendy buses" were scrapped by Johnson when he was elected mayor in 2008, has made clear that has no intention of increasing the fleet of new hybrid hop-on-hop-off buses.
(15) And on 1 February 2019, a man dressed as a sensible pirate will stand at the foot of an obelisk in Ripon, North Yorkshire, and blow an enchanted bendy horn, a horn only to be blown in Britain’s hour of need.
(16) Perez and Alvaro Pereira are seeing a lot of the ball, the former showcasing a couple of needlessly bendy, but very attractive, crossfield passes.
(17) And when that bendy horn is blown, as if by magic, all the straight bananas in Brexit Britain will suddenly bend once more, never to be straight again.
(18) "You tell me 'I want blue and highly conductive and bendy' and we can make it."
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest In short Bendy Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui achieves a high-wire balancing act between different media, ideas and angles, at the same time as juggling the eclectic styles of his diverse performers.
(20) This year will see a fascinating struggle for dominance between the Kindle, the Sony reader, Plastic Logic's Que, the Skiff Reader and LG's 19-inch bendy e-journal.