Found 3 items, similar to Bends.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: bend
belengkikan, belokan, bentuk, geduyut, kelok, lengkungan, membengkok, membengkokkan, membentur, membungkuk-bungkuk, membungkukkan, mencondongkan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: bends
bends
n : pain resulting from rapid change in pressure [syn:
decompression sickness
,
aeroembolism,
air embolism,
gas embolism,
caisson disease]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Bend
Bend
\Bend\, v. i.
1. To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook
or be curving; to bow.
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The green earth's end
Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend. --Milton.
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2. To jut over; to overhang.
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There is a cliff, whose high and bending head
Looks fearfully in the confined deep. --Shak.
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3. To be inclined; to be directed.
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To whom our vows and wished bend. --Milton.
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4. To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
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While each to his great Father bends. --Coleridge.
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Bend
\Bend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Bended or
Bent; p. pr. &
vb. n.
Bending.] [AS. bendan to bend, fr. bend a band,
bond, fr. bindan to bind. See
Bind, v. t., and cf. 3d & 4th
Bend.]
1. 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.
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2. To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.
“Bend thine ear to supplication.” --Milton.
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Towards Coventry bend we our course. --Shak.
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Bending her eyes . . . upon her parent. --Sir W.
Scott.
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3. To apply closely or with interest; to direct.
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To bend his mind to any public business. --Temple.
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But when to mischief mortals bend their will.
--Pope.
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4. To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.
“Except she bend her humor.” --Shak.
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5. (Naut.) 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.
--Totten.
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To bend the brow, to knit the brow, as in deep thought or
in anger; to scowl; to frown. --Camden.
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Syn: To lean; stoop; deflect; bow; yield.
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Bend
\Bend\, n. [See
Bend, v. t., and cf.
Bent, n.]
1. 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.
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2. Turn; purpose; inclination; ends. [Obs.]
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Farewell, poor swain; thou art not for my bend.
--Fletcher.
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3. (Naut.) A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or
to an anchor, spar, or post. --Totten.
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4. (Leather Trade) The best quality of sole leather; a butt.
See
Butt.
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5. (Mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
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6. pl. (Med.) same as
caisson disease. Usually referred to
as
the bends.
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Bends of a ship, the thickest and strongest planks in her
sides, more generally called wales. They have the beams,
knees, and foothooks bolted to them. Also, the frames or
ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of
the sides; as, the midship bend.
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Bend
\Bend\, n. [AS. bend. See
Band, and cf. the preceding
noun.]
1. A band. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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2. [OF. bende, bande, F. bande. See
Band.] (Her.) 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.
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Bend sinister (Her.), an honorable ordinary drawn from the
sinister chief to the dexter base.
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