(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.
Unyielding
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In these patients, the conservative treatment by bouginage could not be continued due to a stricture unyielding for dilatation or early recurrence of the stricture after a number of dilatations.
(2) Suturing of these ostia is occasionally difficult because of an unyielding calcified vessel wall.
(3) The captain, Rio Ferdinand, was nearly as unyielding.
(4) Its enlargement of the lower portion overlying the basal portion of the heart formed an unyielding, tense membrane.
(5) The inefficient application of an unyielding (non-inertial) lap and diagonal seat belt permitted this injury, although one does not know what other injuries might have occurred had the belt not been worn.
(6) Recommendations to avoid this complication include shortening of the forearm at the osteotomy site and the release of unyielding soft tissue restraints.
(7) Although this study supported the thesis that a porous HA matrix can function as a bone graft substitute, it is noted that the unyielding nature of the implant blocks, compared to granules, requires a solution to the challenge of long-term denture support without ulceration before it can be used with clinical confidence.
(8) If Hollywood needed an emblematic heroine for a year of hard times and tough decisions, it came in the form of Jennifer Lawrence: resolute, unyielding and somehow old beyond her age.
(9) Climate change provides an unyielding science-based deadline.
(10) But he was more than just cinema's great choreographer of scale, the man Anthony Quinn likened to a general, commanding his troops and preparing for battle out in the blazing Arabian desert, or the unyielding Burmese jungle, or on the frostbitten Eastern Front.
(11) And there is the flinty personality, sharp, jagged, unyielding.
(12) The unyielding response of Italy, France and Germany came amidst a tsunami of global condemnation for Trump’s decision to renege on an agreement made by 195 countries after decades of negotiation.
(13) This happens in an area in which the deep branch of the radial nerve crossed some narrow structures which are unyielding and have more compression strength (tense cords of connective tissue Fig.
(14) Chen Xi once saw the one-child policy as a brick wall, unyielding and inevitable.
(15) Philosophers first, then early academic physiologists began to exhibit interest in pain, that all too common phenomenon, only too often unyielding to theoretical as well as practical efforts.
(16) This procedure consisted of the application of a rigid clip with a fixed and unyielding gap to the left renal artery and removal of the right kidney.
(17) He admired, and liked, practical people, especially those who had tasted some experience of life outside the City and Whitehall; he often appeared unyielding and unforgiving to the fumbling contradictions of political life, and he certainly had a very low threshold of patience with fools.
(18) As it was, the dominant performer in the stalemate was a resourceful and unyielding centre-half, United's Nemanja Vidic.
(19) It’s the work of the old masters, whoever your masters are, really, that remind you that you have to be singular, inflexible, unyielding in your own work so that even the struggle, that very struggle to achieve, becomes its own reward.
(20) But dogma has a habit of being unyielding, and Corbyn shows few signs of being able to develop fresh responses to a world that has changed out of recognition since his formative political impulses of the late 70s: what to do about the growing influence of Islamic State, the ethics of gene editing or the challenges that technology presents to issues as diverse as employment or transport.