BEND - Meaning and Pronunciation

How to pronounce bend?

This video provides examples of American English pronunciations of bend by male and female speakers.
In addition, it explains the meaning of bend through a dictionary definition and several visual examples.

IPA Transcription of bend is /bˈɛnd/.

Definition of bend according to Wiktionary:
bend can be a verb, a noun or a name

As a verb bend can mean:
1. To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
2. To become curved.
3. To cause to change direction.
4. To change direction.
5. To be inclined; to direct itself.
6. To stoop.
7. To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
8. To force to submit.
9. To submit.
10. To apply to a task or purpose.
11. To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
12. To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
13. To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
14. To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
15. To swing the body when rowing.

As a noun bend can mean:
1. A curve.
2. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
3. A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
4. 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.
5. Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
6. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
7. Hard, indurated clay; bind.
8. The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
9. The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
10. A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.

As a name bend can mean:
1. . Named after a 90-degree curve in the railway line.
2. Surname.

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