English vs bend

English

name
  • A town, the county seat of Crawford County, Indiana; named for Indiana statesman William Hayden English. 

  • A variety, dialect, or idiolect of spoken and or written English. 

  • The language originating in England but now spoken in all parts of the British Isles, the Commonwealth of Nations, North America, and other parts of the world. 

  • A male or female given name 

  • English language, literature, composition as a subject of study 

  • An English surname originally denoting a non-Celtic or non-Danish person in Britain. 

adj
  • English-language; of or pertaining to the language, descended from Anglo-Saxon, which developed in England. 

  • Of or pertaining to England. 

  • Of or pertaining to the people of England (to Englishmen and Englishwomen). 

  • Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure. 

  • Denoting a vertical orientation of the barn doors. 

  • Non-Amish, so named for speaking English rather than a variety of German. 

noun
  • Facility with the English language, ability to employ English correctly and idiomatically. 

  • The people of England, Englishmen and Englishwomen. 

  • Spin or sidespin given to a ball, especially in pool or billiards. 

  • A clear and readily understandable expression of some idea in English. 

  • The English term or expression for some thing or idea. 

  • The non-Amish, people outside the Amish faith and community. 

  • The English text or phrasing of some spoken or written communication. 

  • Synonym of language arts, the class dedicated to improving primary and secondary school students' mastery of English and the material taught in such classes. 

bend

noun
  • The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them. 

  • Hard, indurated clay; bind. 

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

  • A curve. 

  • The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides. 

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

  • 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. 

  • A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness. 

  • A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another. 

verb
  • To stoop. 

  • To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means. 

  • To cause to change direction. 

  • To change direction. 

  • To force to submit. 

  • To submit. 

  • To apply oneself to a task or purpose. 

  • To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast. 

  • To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary. 

  • To apply to a task or purpose. 

  • To become curved. 

  • To smoothly change the pitch of a note. 

  • To be inclined; to direct itself. 

  • To bow in prayer, or in token of submission. 

  • To swing the body when rowing. 

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