What's the difference between bender and mender?

Bender


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, bends.
  • (n.) An instrument used for bending.
  • (n.) A drunken spree.
  • (n.) A sixpence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The objective of this study was to explore the commonly used method of Miller and Bender for determination of the net protein utilization (NPU).
  • (2) Subjects were examined with Wechsler tests (WPPSI, WISC-R or WAIS, according to their capabilities), Progressive Matrices, Bender or Santucci and memory tests.
  • (3) Practice effects within a multiple-phase administration of the Bender Visual-motor Gestalt Test were investigated.
  • (4) A NSW man who died in custody after being Tasered was reportedly battling an addiction to ice and had been on a bender.
  • (5) The Bender Visual-motor Gestalt Test and Beery's Developmental Test of Visual-motor Integration were administered to 51 educable mentally retarded boys ranging in age from 72 to 161 mo.
  • (6) These children on Bender Gestalt test made more errors particularly distortions (distortion of parts, incorrect number of dots, shape of design lost etc).
  • (7) It is suggested that the group Bender test might be used as a screening device without significant loss of information on a later administration of the individual Bender test.
  • (8) The latter result, in conjunction with those results on the Bender visual-motor gestalt test and on some WAIS subtests, suggests a frequent deficit in spatial capabilities in such subjects.
  • (9) From the resultant corner Bender is beaten again, this time Martinez sending a header fractionally over the bar.
  • (10) Normative data on the Koppitz developmental scoring system for the Bender-Gestalt test were derived from a sample which included 510 protocols of adult resident retardates.
  • (11) The Bender-Gestalt and WISC or WISC-R performances of two groups of 19 emotionally disturbed children matched in age age (9-1 to 16-7) and Full Scale IQ were compared.
  • (12) The absence of a significant correlation between the Bender and the WISC Verbal IQ in these children was attributed to the relative superiority of their Verbal scores.
  • (13) The strongest and most consistent effects occurred for the Bender Gestalt test (GFT version) and for serial choice reaction performance (Vienna Device).
  • (14) The Trail Making Test and Bender Background Interference Procedure were evaluated with 598 Ss against both external neurologic criteria and against psychological opinion derived from a more complete evaluation.
  • (15) We describe a device for quantifying neglect based upon the principle of the Bender test which uses double or simultaneous bilateral stimulation to determine neglect.
  • (16) Bender scores also appeared to have more utility for predicting reading and mathematics achievement for children of low birthweight than for those of normal birthweight.
  • (17) Those normals whose free-play ankle activity was above the mean, also had significantly more errors and performed at a significantly lower level on the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test than children whose activity was below the mean.
  • (18) 8.48pm BST 50 mins Other German subs were Aogo for Jansen and Kruse for Sven Bender.
  • (19) We evaluated the concurrent validity of the revised Bender-Gestalt emotional indicators (Koppitz, 1975) among three groups of children in the 7- to 10-year age range: adjustment disorder, behavior disorder, and normal control.
  • (20) On the fifteenth day of hospitalization, after five days without any psychopharmacological therapy, the patients underwent psychological testing: the Wechsler-Bellevue test, separately for the complete, verbal, and nonverbal scales and the Bender-Gestalt test.

Mender


Definition:

  • (n.) One who mends or repairs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He also wants to expand services available at its stores by bringing in shoe menders Timpsons and exploring putting coffee shops or car mechanics into units within Morrisons’ car parks.
  • (2) The military staged a coup in 1960, which saw the hanging of the then-prime minister, Adnan Menderes, and two other ministers, and another in 1971.
  • (3) Adnan Menderes , Turkey’s popular political figure of 1950s was hanged in 1961, following the first military takeover.
  • (4) While infected animals could have brought the virus into the area, analysis based on the probable time of infection of pregnant dams showed that easterly winds at the end of September or beginning of October 1979 could have brought insects infected with Akabane virus into the Menderes valley from eastern Turkey or northern Syria.
  • (5) It is critical that we make more visible the expectations and indictments of women in their socially constructed roles of menders and tenders.
  • (6) "Boulatruelle, the road-mender we have already met.
  • (7) Their appearances in print were usually restricted to cartoons in Punch, which whittled away their lives to a set of comic catchphrases, or novels in which they provided little more than splashes of local colour, such as Dombey and Son 's description of "the water-carts and the old-clothes men, and the people with geraniums, and the umbrella-mender, and the man who trilled the little bell of the Dutch clock as he went along".
  • (8) An outbreak of bluetongue in sheep started in the Menderes valley, Aydin Province, Western Turkey, in October 1977.
  • (9) During the night of 14-15 October 1977, south-easterly winds could have brought midges infected with bluetongue virus for the 15 h flight at a height possibly of 500 m and at temperatures of about 20 degrees C. A depression moving north-eastwards accompanied by rain may have affected the landing of midges in the Menderes valley on the morning of 15 October.
  • (10) An outbreak of arthrogryposis-hydranencephaly in newly born calves occurred in March-May 1980, also in the Menderes valley, Aydin Province.