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What does bend mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word bend? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
  2. (intransitive) To become curved.
  3. (transitive) To cause to change direction.
  4. (intransitive) To change direction.
  5. (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
  6. (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
  7. (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
  8. (transitive) To force to submit.
  9. (intransitive) To submit.
  10. (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
  11. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
  12. (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
  13. (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
  14. (music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
  15. (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
Noun
  1. A curve.
  2. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
  3. (plural) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
  4. (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
  5. (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
  6. (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
  7. (plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
  8. (plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
  9. (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.
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