(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.
Bower
Definition:
(v. & n.) One who bows or bends.
(v. & n.) An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.
(v. & n.) A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.
(n.) One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.
(n.) Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment.
(n.) A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat.
(n.) A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.
(v. t.) To embower; to inclose.
(v. i.) To lodge.
(n.) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Treasurer Joe Hockey walks to a doorstop interview with the media this morning at the Ministerial entrance to Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday 13th May 2013 Photograph: Mike Bowers, Guardian Australia There is a certain commonality associated with the annual rituals of the treasurer.
(2) The first experiment replicates the main finding of Gluck and Bower.
(3) Photograph: Mike Bowers 5.48am BST National leader Warren Truss would like to know if the Prime Minister will apologise for banning live exports when she's in Jakarta.
(4) Chris Bowen gets 94A-ed and yells over the dispatch box during question time in the House of Representatives this afternoon Wednesday 16th July 2014 Photograph: Mike Bowers Bowen's ejection has prompted the MPI, the post QT debate, to be cancelled.
(5) Not only did the Guardian's stories eventually prove correct, but Jefferson's boss, Cynthia Bower, announced her departure a few months later.
(6) Mike Bowers (@mpbowers) Director-General of Security David Irvine and Att.
(7) The website’s photographer, Mike Bowers, applied for a visa to visit the island in November and on Tuesday was reportedly sent an email from the director of Nauru’s government information office, Joanna Olsson.
(8) In February the CQC's chief executive, Cynthia Bower, announced that she would step down later this year after weeks of criticism.
(9) Wednesday 16th July 2014 Photograph: Mike Bowers The two gentleman pictured above foreshadowed new national security laws that will give Asio more powers to snoop on computers and more powers to coordinate with other agencies during investigations.
(10) Photograph: Mike Bowers for The Guardian The government had its first win: Parry easily secured the job of the new president, with 63 votes, while Ludlam mustered support from only 10 senators.
(11) Mike Bowers has wandered down the front to capture a bunch of anti-coal seam gas protesters blocking the entrance of the people's house.
(12) In contrast to various kinds of elastases that are known to produce emphysematous changes in animals, the elastolytic activity of carrageenan solution did not show any such effects, although in the homogenate of the lobes given carrageenan, a moderate but significant increase in the proteinase activities of alveolar macrophages are said to occur (Bowers et al.
(13) Malcolm Bower Gunnislake, Cornwall • It is crazy to have school students reluctant to take language A-levels for fear of low grades and no university place, while university language departments are closing down due to lack of demand from school students.
(14) "There may be some legitimate fear about interfering with other people's cultures, but when you talk to the husbands and boyfriends of the women they're not happy that their wives and girlfriends cannot respond sexually – and that's even without going into the misery that the women suffer," says Bowers.
(15) Once they've healed she sends them literature on discovering masturbation, and Gary and Bowers give all the patients their phone numbers and email.
(16) This year alone, there has been a hostile Blair biography , Broken Vows, by the investigative journalist Tom Bower, which dismissed the inquiry as naive and out of its depth.
(17) Bowers tells FGM patients that "there are no guarantees" but that eight out of 10 report improvements in their sex life after her surgery, ranging from eliminating pain and acquiring some pleasure to full-on orgasm.
(18) She "did not seem to ask for compassion", as Elizabeth notes at the end of her first visit to the marital bower.
(19) Photograph: Mike Bowers for the Guardian And Victorian senator John Madigan said “the welfare of Australian families and Australian manufacturing are both important to me, and I will not undermine either to advance the other.” The Coalition proposed deep cuts to family tax benefits in its first budget in 2014 – but about $6bn of those savings remain stalled in the Senate, opposed by Labor, the Greens and a majority of the crossbench.
(20) Their demand came after the CQC finally named the three people – former chief executive Cynthia Bower, her deputy Jill Finney, and media manager Anna Jefferson – who were said to be present during a discussion at the health regulator when it was decided to suppress a report that had uncovered critical weaknesses in its inspections of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust.