Crossword clues for bending
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bend \Bend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bended or Bent; p. pr. & vb. n. Bending.] [AS. bendan to bend, fr. bend a band, bond, fr. bindan to bind. See Bind, v. t., and cf. 3d & 4th Bend.]
To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.
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To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline. ``Bend thine ear to supplication.''
--Milton.Towards Coventry bend we our course.
--Shak.Bending her eyes . . . upon her parent.
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To apply closely or with interest; to direct.
To bend his mind to any public business.
--Temple.But when to mischief mortals bend their will.
--Pope. To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue. ``Except she bend her humor.''
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(Naut.) To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.
--Totten.To bend the brow, to knit the brow, as in deep thought or in anger; to scowl; to frown.
--Camden.Syn: To lean; stoop; deflect; bow; yield.
Bending \Bend"ing\, n.
The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands.
[Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Wiktionary
n. A motion or action that bends. vb. (present participle of bend English)
WordNet
adj. not remaining rigid or straight; "tried to support his weight on a bending cane"
n. movement that causes the formation of a curve [syn: bend]
the property of being bent or deflected [syn: deflection, deflexion]
the act of bending something
Wikipedia
In applied mechanics, bending (also known as flexure) characterizes the behavior of a slender structural element subjected to an external load applied perpendicularly to a longitudinal axis of the element.
The structural element is assumed to be such that at least one of its dimensions is a small fraction, typically 1/10 or less, of the other two. When the length is considerably longer than the width and the thickness, the element is called a beam. For example, a closet rod sagging under the weight of clothes on clothes hangers is an example of a beam experiencing bending. On the other hand, a shell is a structure of any geometric form where the length and the width are of the same order of magnitude but the thickness of the structure (known as the 'wall') is considerably smaller. A large diameter, but thin-walled, short tube supported at its ends and loaded laterally is an example of a shell experiencing bending.
In the absence of a qualifier, the term bending is ambiguous because bending can occur locally in all objects. Therefore, to make the usage of the term more precise, engineers refer to a specific object such as; the bending of rods, the bending of beams, the bending of plates, the bending of shells and so on.
Bending may refer to:
- Bending, the behavior of a structural element subjected to a lateral load
- Bending (metalworking), a sheet metalworking process used in manufacture
- Bending, the fictional ability of manipulation of the four classical elements in Avatar: The Last Airbender and its sequel, The Legend of Korra
- The flection of a tone, frequently utilized in blues and jazz music (see glissando)
- A harmonica technique used to change the pitch of a note.
- The middle name of fictional Futurama character Bender Bending Rodriguez
- Bending the rules
- String bending, a guitar technique
Bending is a manufacturing process that produces a V-shape, U-shape, or channel shape along a straight axis in ductile materials, most commonly sheet metal. Commonly used equipment include box and pan brakes, brake presses, and other specialized machine presses. Typical products that are made like this are boxes such as electrical enclosures and rectangular ductwork.
Usage examples of "bending".
Caderousse, waving his hand in token of adieu to Danglars, and bending his steps towards the Allees de Meillan, moving his head to and fro, and muttering as he went, after the manner of one whose mind was overcharged with one absorbing idea.
It appears, therefore, at first sight that greasing the tips of these radicles had checked but little their bending to the adjoining damp surface.
We have also seen that the destruction of the tip does not prevent the adjoining part from bending, if this part has already received some influence from the tip.
They gasped at the sight of the afanc, thrashing furiously now in the lake with its great neck bending to and fro.
Opening his eyes the next morning, Alec was startled to find Runcer bending over him.
Bending over Shadamehr, Alise looked into his face, and fear coiled around her heart, squeezed it so that she very nearly stopped breathing.
Bending nearer, Alise noticed then that the edges of the skin around the scratch were chalk white, almost as if the wound had been packed in snow.
When she woke, she thought for a moment that someone was bending over her: in the same instant, she saw herself marooning Billy Anker and Mona the clone in the shadow of the gas giant.
Any kind of movement in relation to light will obviously be much facilitated by each part circumnutating or bending successively in all directions, so that an already existing movement has only to be increased in some one direction, and to be lessened or stopped in the other directions, in order that it should become heliotropic, apheliotropic, etc.
But from observing the effects of placing plants in the dark, in which case several shoots became in two or three days upright or nearly upright, and when brought back into the light again became rectangularly curved, we believe that the bending is in part due to apheliotropism, apparently somewhat opposed by apogeotropism.
Touching her lightly on the arm, he turned her back for the long walk along the aqueduct, their shadows mingling, bending, and twisting along the high banks of encroaching sand.
Bending like a cat, she would gaze into his eyes with her dark glance, in which something avidious would now flash up.
In this marsh, too, the children sometimes saw that singular bird, the Avoset, with its curious curved bill, its noisy clamor, and its long legs, bending and tottering under him, as he ran about the marsh or waded into its pools.
I q CHAPTER 9 With a touching awkwardness, Tucker maneuvered around the coffee table and stopped near the center of the long sofa, then stood helpless for a moment, trying to figure out how to sit down without bending his knee.
The King in robes of Golde, caused the yoong Damosell that stood before the Queene, to marche forwarde to the third Checker, direct in the first remooue, whereupon immediately there was seene a battaile and Torney, with so swift and sodaine forces, bending themselues to the grounde as it were lying close vpon their Garde, and presently vpon it capering vp with a turne twise aboue ground, one iust opposite against an other, and vpon their downe come withall a turne vpon the toe thrise about.