Bend vs. Bowing
Difference Between Bend and Bowing
Bendverb
(transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
If you bend the pipe too far, it will break.Don’t bend your knees.Bowingverb
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Bendverb
(intransitive) To become curved.
Look at the trees bending in the wind.Bowingnoun
The act of bending at the waist, as a sign of respect or greeting.
The courtier had practiced his bowing.Bendverb
(transitive) To cause to change direction.
Bowingnoun
A bending.
The heavy books caused a bowing in the shelf.Bendverb
(intransitive) To change direction.
The road bends to the rightBowingnoun
A technique for using the bow on a string instrument such as a violin.
Bendverb
(intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
Bowingnoun
bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame
Bendverb
To stoop.
He bent down to pick up the pieces.Bowingnoun
managing the bow in playing a stringed instrument;
the violinist's bowing was excellentBendverb
(intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
Bowingadjective
showing an excessively deferential manner
Bendverb
(transitive) To force to submit.
They bent me to their will.Bendverb
(intransitive) To submit.
I am bending to my desire to eat junk food.Bendverb
(transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
He bent the company's resources to gaining market share.Bendverb
(intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
He bent to the goal of gaining market share.Bendverb
(transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
Bendverb
To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
Bend the sail to the yard.Bendverb
To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure.Bendverb
To swing the body when rowing.
Bendnoun
A curve.
There's a sharp bend in the road ahead.Bendnoun
Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
Bendnoun
A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
A diver who stays deep for too long must ascend very slowly in order to prevent the bends.Bendnoun
(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.
Bendnoun
(obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
Bendnoun
In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
Bendnoun
(mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
Bendnoun
The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
Bendnoun
The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
the midship bendsBendnoun
(music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.
Bendnoun
a circular segment of a curve;
a bend in the roada crook in the pathBendnoun
movement that causes the formation of a curve
Bendnoun
curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
Bendnoun
an angular or rounded shape made by folding;
a fold in the napkina crease in his trousersa plication on her blousea flexure of the colona bend of his elbowBendnoun
a town in central Oregon at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range
Bendnoun
diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left
Bendverb
form a curve;
The stick does not bendBendverb
change direction;
The road bendsBendverb
cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form;
bend the rodtwist the dough into a braidthe strong man could turn an iron barBendverb
bend one's back forward from the waist on down;
he crouched downShe bowed before the QueenThe young man stooped to pick up the girl's purseBendverb
turn from a straight course , fixed direction, or line of interest
Bendverb
bend a joint;
flex your wristsbend your knees
