Definition of bends

"bends" in the noun sense

1. bend, crook, twist, turn

a circular segment of a curve

"a bend in the road"

"a crook in the path"

2. bending, bend

movement that causes the formation of a curve

3. bend, curve

curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)

4. fold, crease, plication, flexure, crimp, bend

an angular or rounded shape made by folding

"a fold in the napkin"

"a crease in his trousers"

"a plication on her blouse"

"a flexure of the colon"

"a bend of his elbow"

5. Bend

a town in central Oregon at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range

6. bend, bend dexter

diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left

"bends" in the verb sense

1. bend, flex

form a curve

"The stick does not bend"

2. bend

change direction

"The road bends"

3. flex, bend, deform, twist, turn

cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form

"bend the rod"

"twist the dough into a braid"

"the strong man could turn an iron bar"

4. crouch, stoop, bend, bow

bend one's back forward from the waist on down

"he crouched down"

"She bowed before the Queen"

"The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"

5. deflect, bend, turn away

turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest

6. flex, bend

bend a joint

"flex your wrists"

"bend your knees"

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Quotations for bends

It is a good blade that bends well. [ Proverb ]

Immortal art! Where'er the rounded sky
Bends over the cradle where thy children lie,
Their home is earth, their herald every tongue. [ Holmes ]

Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief
On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair
It has mantled a world. [ Joaquin Miller ]

Thy pleasure points the shaft, and bends the bow;
The cluster blasts, or bids it brightly glow. [ Dr. Young ]

Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove;
No! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me proved;
I never writ, nor no man ever loved. [ William Shakespeare ]

The saints will aid if men will call: For the blue sky bends over all. [ Coleridge ]

When a man dies, they who survive him ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him. [ Koran ]

Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn. [ Schiller ]

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

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Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

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Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

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