Bending Meaning and Definition

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What is the definition Bending? What is its meaning in the dictionary? Words starting with Bending, Derivations, How to pronounce? Example sentences, Synonyms, Related sentences, Antonyms, Words ending with Bending and more...

Word: Bending

How to pronounce: ˈbendɪŋ

How to pronounce: bend

Verb

Definitions:

1. Shape or force (something straight) into a curve or angle.

Example sentences: "The wire has to be bent back tightly"

2. (of a person) incline the body downwards from the vertical.

Example sentences: "She bent down and yanked out the flex"

3. Force or be forced to submit.

Example sentences: "They want to bend me to their will"

4. Direct (one's attention or energies) to a task.

Example sentences: "Eric bent all his efforts to persuading them to donate some blankets"

5. Attach (a sail or cable) by means of a knot.

Example sentences: "Sailors were bending sails to the spars"

Noun

Definitions:

1. A curve in a road, river, path, or racing circuit.

Example sentences: "The van screeched round a bend"

2. A curved or angled part of something.

Example sentences: "Make a bend in the wire"

3. A kind of knot used to join two ropes together, or to tie a rope to another object, e.g. a carrick bend.

Example sentences: "Even so it is a very secure bend and can put up with a good deal of strain and movement. It can also be used to tie a bend with thin line."

4. Decompression sickness, especially in divers.

Example sentences: "The disease suffered by divers known as the bends (decompression sickness) is an example of the same phenomenon."

Noun

Definitions:

1. An ordinary in the form of a broad diagonal stripe from top left (dexter chief) to bottom right (sinister base) of a shield or part of one.

Example sentences: "This device of a fountain appears in the arms of the family, where six wells, which form the source of the River Stour appear with a bend on the shield."

Synonyms:

curving

flexion

curvature

curved

flexure

deformation

deflection

winding

curling

curvy

twisting