Crossword clues for bends
bends
- Switchback features
- Makes a concession
- Some calisthenics
- Barre exercises
- Surfacing diver's concern, with "the"
- Diver's worry
- Deep knee ___
- Turns from a straight line
- Takes a bow, say
- Shows some flexibility, as with rules
- Result of coming up too rapidly
- Racecourse curves
- Isn't stubborn
- Hairpin turns, e.g
- Forms a curve
- Emulates a Silly Straw
- Doesn't follow to the letter, as rules
- Diving woe
- Divers' affliction
- Diver's affliction
- Demonstrates flexibility
- Deep-sea diver's hazard, with "the"
- Decompression disorder
- Ballerina maneuvers
- Agrees to compromise
- '95 Radiohead album "The ___"
- Part of morning calisthenics
- Contorts
- Diver's dread, with "the"
- Gives a bit
- Compromises
- Concern when coming up, with "the"
- Pain resulting from rapid change in pressure
- Sandhog's ailment
- Deflects
- Twists
- Caisson worker's affliction
- Decompression sickness
- Caisson disease
- Flexes
- Knee exercises
- Yields
- Diver's hazard
- Stoops
- Road curves
- Gives in a little
- River features
- Shows flexibility
- Gives a little
- Relaxes, as rules
- Diver's danger
Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of bend English) 2 (context diving English) A condition of bubbles in the blood which sometimes occurs during ascent. 3 (context nautical English) The thickest and strongest planks in a wooden ship's side, wales. vb. (en-third-person singular of: bend)
WordNet
n. pain resulting from rapid change in pressure [syn: decompression sickness, aeroembolism, air embolism, gas embolism, caisson disease]
Wikipedia
Bends, or the bends may refer to:
- "The bends", the common term used to refer to decompression sickness
-
The Bends, a 1995 album by British band Radiohead
- "The Bends", a song from the above album
- "The Bends", a song by the group Mr. Bungle on their 1995 album, Disco Volante
- Bends (film), a 2013 British film
Bends is a 2013 Hong Kong drama film directed by Flora Lau. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Usage examples of "bends".
The most widely prevalent movement is essentially of the same nature as that of the stem of a climbing plant, which bends successively to all points of the compass, so that the tip revolves.
On the other hand, if the tip is subjected to the vapour of water proceeding from one side, the upper part of the radicle bends towards this side.
As the arched epicotyl, in whatever position it may be placed, bends quickly upwards through apogeotropism, and as the two legs tend at a very early age to separate from one another, as soon as they are relieved from the pressure of the surrounding earth, it was difficult to ascertain positively whether the epicotyl, whilst remaining arched, circumnutated.
The upper part is apogeotropic, and therefore grows vertically upwards, excepting a short portion close to the blades, which at an early period bends downwards and becomes arched, and thus breaks through the ground.
Although only 9 out of 39 radicles were affected, yet the curvature was so distinct in several of them, that there could be no doubt that the tip is sensitive to slight contact, and that the growing part bends away from the touching object.
The radicle of the common pea at a point a little above the apex is rather more sensitive to continued pressure than that of the bean, and bends towards the pressed side.
These two sets of cases, especially the first one, prove that the apex of the radicle is sensitive to slight contact and that the upper part bends from the touching object.
There can, therefore, be no doubt that the apex is highly sensitive to slight contact, and that the upper part of the radicle bends away from the touching object.
The part which bends most apparently coincides with that of the most rapid growth.
The curvature often amounts to a rectangle,--that is, the terminal part bends upwards until the tip, which is but little curved, projects almost horizontally.
The hypocotyl is slightly sensitive, so that if rubbed with a needle it bends towards the rubbed side.
It is the more remarkable, because we shall meet with an analogous case in the leaves of the allied genus Melilotus, in which the terminal leaflet rotates at night so as to present one edge to the zenith and at the same time bends to one side, so that its upper surface comes into contact with that of one of the two now vertical lateral leaflets.
Hence it sleeps like the terminal leaflet of a mature plant, as was observed in 15 species, and wholly unlike the corresponding leaflet of Trifolium, which simply bends upwards.
As soon, however, as the direction of the circumnutating movement nearly coincides with that of the entering light, the plant bends in a straight course towards the light, if this is bright.
When the cotyledons are exposed to a lateral light, the upper part bends first, and afterwards the bending gradually extends down to the base, and, as we shall presently see, even a little beneath the ground.