English Dictionary

bend

/bɛnd/

noun

A curve. / Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.

The road took a sharp bend.

意味（1）

A curve.

I hear the train a comin'/It's rolling round the bend

意味（2）

Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.

A simpler version of the common bend with its ends in the same direction is used to join binder twine in a hay baling machine.

意味（3）

(in the plural, medicine, underwater diving, with the) 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.

意味（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.

Perhaps the most celebrated coat of arms is that of Scrope, which is Azure a bend Or. This is the coat over which, from 1385 to 1390, Sir Robert le Grosvenor and Sir Richard le Scrope invoked the High Court of Chivalry to decide which of them had the right to bear these arms. Chaucer gave evidence before the court. In the end the arms were awarded to Scrope, and Grosvenor was ordered to difference with a bordure Argent. This he disdained to do, and being highly dissatisfied with the verdict he appealed to Richard II who altered the decision of the court by refusing to allow the bend to Grosvenor at all! Grosvenor then adopted a garb, or sheaf of corn.

意味（5）

(obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.

Farewell, poor swain; thou art not for my bend.

意味（6）

In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.

意味（7）

(mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.

意味（8）

(nautical, in the 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.

意味（9）

(nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.

the midship bends

意味（10）

(music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.