Bends

Definition: Bends

Bends

Noun

1. Pain resulting from rapid change in pressure.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bends" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Aerospace

Medicine

Mining

Public Administration

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Synonyms: Bends

Crosswords: Bends

Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself. (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.)

What kind of a machine bends a stalk of corn without breaking it? (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

I thought it was only a story until it happened to me. You see, there's this stuff called quicksilver that bends light. (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner)

And this responsibility is like a big rock that weighs a ton. It bends and it twists them until finally it buries them under the ground. (The Magnificent Seven; writing credit: William Roberts; Walter Newman)

You see, if it bends, it works. (Crimes and Misdemeanors; writing credit: Woody Allen)

Going up and down, all around the bends ("Sledgehammer"; performing artist: Peter Gabriel)

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References

• The World Market for Stainless Steel Threaded Elbows, Bends, and Sleeves: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• 40 Knots to Know: Hitchs, Loops, Bends and Binding (Quick Starts for Kids!) (reference)

• Blue Heaven Bends over All: A Novel of the Life of Sir Walter Scott (reference)

• Radiohead: The Bends (reference)

• The Complete Book of Sailing Knots: Stoppers, Bindings and Shortenings, Single, Double and Triple Loops, Bends, Hitches, Other Useful Knots (reference)

• Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law, and Endangers Your Health (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Deceptive Bends (reference)

• Deceptive Bends [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [EXTRA TRACKS] [IMPORT] (reference)

• Reality Bends (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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The Lambert Glacier in Antarctica is the world's largest glacier. The focal point of this image is an icefall that feeds into the glacier from the vast ice sheet covering the polar plateau. Ice flows like water, albeit much more slowly. Cracks can be seen in this icefall as it bends and twists on its slow-motion descent 1300 feet (400 meters) to the glacier below.Credit: NASA.

Steel production. Iron production scene. The blast furnaces are going as never before as a giant industry bends every energy to give greater volume for victory. Republic, Youngstown.Credit: Library of Congress.

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See Introduction: passing south of the island of Alsen and following the median line of Flensburg Fjord, leaving the fjord about 6 kilometres north of Flensburg and following the course of the stream flowing past Kupfermuhle upstream to a point north of Niehuus, passing north of Pattburg and Ellund and south of Froslee to meet the eastern boundary of the Kreis of Tondern at its junction with the boundary between the old jurisdiction of Slogs and Kjaer (Slogs, Herred, and Kaer Herred), following the latter boundary to where it meets the Scheidebek, following the course of the Scheidebek (AIte Au), Suder Au, and Wied Au downstream successively to the point where the latter bends northwards about 1,500 metres west of Ruttebull thence, in a west-north-westerly direction to meet the North Sea north of SieItoft, thence, passing north of the island of Sylt, the vote above provided for shall be taken within a period not exceeding three weeks after the evacuation of the country by the German troops and authorities. (reference)

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Lord of the earth and sea, he bends a slave, And woman, lovely woman, reigns alone.

The whole bends, cracks, snaps, floats, rolls, falls, crashes, hurries, plunges.

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Health

The scope bends, so the physician can move it around the curves of your colon. (references)

Splenic-flexure syndrome is a chronic disorder that seems to be caused by trapped gas at bends (flexures) in the colon. (references)

Usually, moving the legs, walking, rubbing or massaging the legs, or doing knee bends can bring relief, at least briefly. (references)

Human Rights

Syria

Former prisoners and detainees report that torture methods include administering electrical shocks; pulling out fingernails; forcing objects into the rectum; beating, sometimes while the victim is suspended from the ceiling; hyperextending the spine; and using a chair that bends backwards to asphyxiate the victim or fracture the victim's spine. (references)

Political Economy

Ukraine

Investment remained at low levels, with many potential investors discouraged by rampant corruption, onerous taxation, arbitrary licensing practices, and an inefficient, politically influenced, judicial system that bends to political pressure. (references)

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Expressions using "bends": Bends of a ship ♦ the bends. Additional references.

Ending with "bends": s-bends.

Chinese 

弯 (Bend, Bent). (various references)

Danish

dykkersyge (aeroembolism, caisson disease, caisson sickness, compressed air disease, compressed air illness, decompression disease, decompression illness, decompression sickness, diver's sickness, ebullism), dykkersygdomssmerter. (various references)

Dutch

luchtembolie (aeroembolism, air embolism), caisson-ziekte, caissonziekte (caisson disease, decompression disease, decompression sickness, diver's sickness), aeraemie, aeraemia. (various references)

Finnish

sukeltajantauti (caisson disease, decompression disease, decompression sickness, diver's sickness). (various references)

French

bends, maladie des plongeurs, maladie de caisson, mal du caisson, douleurs de la maladie des caissons. (various references)

German

Taucherkrankheit (caisson disease, decompression sickness, diver's sickness), Biegungen (inflections, inflexions, turnings), biegt (inflects), beugt (flexes). (various references)

Greek 

νόσος των άκρων και της κοιλίας σαν αποτέλεσμα της ταχείας μειώσεως της ατμοσφαιρικής πιέσεως, νόσος των αεροπόρων, νόσος των δυτών (caisson disease, diver's sickness). (various references)

Hungarian

peremfa, légembólia (aeroembolesm, aeroembolism, air bends), keszonbetegség, hajóperem (gunwale), habvető (gunwale). (various references)

Italian

malattia dei palombari (caisson disease, diver's sickness), malattia dei cassoni (aeroembolism, caisson disease, caisson sickness, compressed air disease, compressed air illness, decompression illness, decompression sickness, diver's sickness, ebullism), embolia gassosa (air embolism). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

潜水病 (caisson disease, the bends), 潜函病 (caisson disease, the bends). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せ�"すいびょう (caisson disease, the bends), せ�"か�"びょう (caisson disease, the bends). (various references)

Korean 

굴곡 (Bend). (various references)

Pig Latin

endsbay

Portuguese

doença dos mergulhadores. (various references)

Russian 

гнуть....кессонный болезнь. (various references)

Spanish

síndrome de descompresión, enfermedad de los buzos (caisson disease, diver's sickness), enfermedad de buzo (aeroembolism), aeropierismo, aeremia "trancazo". (various references)

Swedish

dykarsjuka (caisson disease, decompression disease, decompression illness, decompression sickness, diver's sickness). (various references)

Turkish

vurgun (caisson disease, cleanup, decompression sickness, haul, loot, pelf, pickup, profiteering, rapture of deep, scoop, strike, the bends). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "bends": backbends, prebends, unbends. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bends" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abends, bandas, Bandos, bedsy, beende, bems, benda, bende, Bendusi, bendys, Bendysh, Bendz, benes, Bengs, benis, bennes, bionds, bndes, bue-nas, Bundes, pbend. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: beds, bend, bens, debs, dens, ends, nebs, send, sned.

-2 letters: bed, ben, deb, den, eds, end, ens, neb, sen.

-3 letters: be, de, ed, en, es, ne.

+1 letter: bendys, blends.

+2 letters: badness, banders, bandies, basined, bedamns, bedpans, beduins, behinds, bendays, bendees, benders, beyonds, binders, bindles, blendes, blondes, bonders, bundles, burdens, debones, debunks, inbreds, rebinds, snibbed, snubbed, subdean, subtend, unbased, unbends.

+3 letters: abdomens, abducens, absented, baldness, bandages, bandeaus, bandores, bandsmen, banished, bankside, bartends, beadings, beadsman, beadsmen, beddings, bedesman, bedesmen, bedgowns, bedizens, bedouins, bedsonia, bedstand, bedunces, bendways, bendwise, besnowed, blandest, blenders, blinders, blindest, blondest, blunders, boldness, bondages, bondsmen, bookends, bounders, branders, brandies, brindles, broadens, bundlers, buskined, debasing, deboners, doblones, dogbanes, drabness, dumbness, ebonised, inbreeds, nimbused, nobodies, noseband, prebends, prebinds, reblends, rebounds, redbones, sendable, sideband, subdeans, subindex, suborned, subtends, subtrend, subvened, sunbaked, unabused, unbiased, unbusted.

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