different between bend vs arc
bend
English
Etymology
From Middle English benden, from Old English bendan (“to bind or bend (a bow), fetter, restrain”), from Proto-Germanic *bandijan? (“to bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?end?- (“to bind, tie”). Cognate with Middle High German benden (“to fetter”), Danish bænde (“to bend”), Norwegian bende (“to bend”), Faroese benda (“to bend, inflect”), Icelandic benda (“to bend”). More at band.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?nd, IPA(key): /b?nd/
- (pin–pen merger) IPA(key): /b?nd/
- Rhymes: -?nd
Verb
bend (third-person singular simple present bends, present participle bending, simple past and past participle bent or (archaic) bended)
- (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
- (intransitive) To become curved.
- (transitive) To cause to change direction.
- (intransitive) To change direction.
- (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
- (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
- (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Each to his great Father bends.
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- (transitive) To force to submit.
- (intransitive) To submit.
- (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
- (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
- (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
- (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
- (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
- (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
bend (plural bends)
- A curve.
- 1968, Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues
- I hear the train a comin'/It's rolling round the bend
- 1968, Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues
- Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
- (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.
- (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.
- (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
- 1608, John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess, Act 1, Scene 3
- Farewell, poor swain; thou art not for my bend.
- 1608, John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess, Act 1, Scene 3
- In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
- (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
- (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.
- (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
- (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.
Derived terms
Translations
Related terms
- bent
References
- The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [1]
Anagrams
- D. Neb.
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *band (“drop”). Compare Phrygian ???? (bedu, “water”), Sanskrit ?????? (bindú, “drop”), Middle Irish banna, baina (“drop”) and possibly Latin F?ns Bandusiae.
Noun
bend m
- pond, water reservoir
- idle or provocative words
- servant, henchman
Related terms
- përbindësh
Northern Kurdish
Noun
bend ?
- slave
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From benda, bende (“to bend”).
Noun
bend n (definite singular bendet, indefinite plural bend, definite plural benda)
- a bend
- a bent position
- a butt on a thick rope
Participle
bend (neuter bendt, definite singular and plural bende)
- past participle of benda and bende
Verb
bend
- imperative of benda and bende
References
- “bend” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Norse
Participle
bend
- inflection of bendr:
- strong feminine nominative singular
- strong neuter nominative/accusative plural
Verb
bend
- second-person singular active imperative of benda
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English bend.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?b?d??/
Noun
bend m (plural bends)
- (music, electric guitar) bend (change in pitch produced by bending a string)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From English band.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bênd/
Noun
b?nd m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- (music) band (group of musicians)
Declension
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arc
English
Etymology
From Middle English ark, borrowed from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”). Doublet of arch and arco.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: äk, IPA(key): /??k/
- (US) enPR: ärk, IPA(key): /??k/
- Rhymes: -??(?)k
- Homophone: ark
Noun
arc (plural arcs)
- (astronomy) That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon. [from 14th c.]
- (geometry) A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve. [from 16th c.]
- A curve, in general. [from 17th c.]
- A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape. [from 17th c.]
- (electrics) A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge between either two electrodes or as lightning. [from 19th c.]
- A story arc. [from 20th c.]
- (mathematics) A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.
- (graph theory) A directed edge.
- (basketball, slang) The three-point line.
- (film) An arclight.
Synonyms
- (curve): curve, swoop
- (circular arc): circular arc, circle segment
- (directed edge): arrow, directed edge
Derived terms
- arcweld
- mercury arc rectifier
Translations
Verb
arc (third-person singular simple present arcs, present participle arcing or arcking, simple past and past participle arced or arcked)
- (transitive, intransitive) To move following a curved path.
- 2008, T. R. Elmore, Blood Ties Series, Volume 1, Tainted, Book 1 (page 106)
- A warring bloodhunter detected it and skillfully arced his sword through its spinal column before it could return to follow through with its attack.
- 2008, T. R. Elmore, Blood Ties Series, Volume 1, Tainted, Book 1 (page 106)
- (transitive) To shape into an arc; to hold in the form of an arc.
- (intransitive) To form an electrical arc.
Related terms
- arch
Further reading
- arc in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- arc in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- arc at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- CAR, CRA, Car, RAC, RCA, acr-, car, rac-
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan arc, from Latin arcus, from Proto-Indo-European *h?erk?o-.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /?a?k/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?ark/
Noun
arc m (plural arcs)
- bow (weapon)
- (music) bow (used to play string instruments)
- (geometry) arc
- (architecture) arch
Derived terms
- arc de Sant Martí
- arc de triomf
- arc iris
- arcada
- arcbotant
- arcar
- arquejar
- arquer
See also
- fletxa
Further reading
- “arc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “arc” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “arc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “arc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
From Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“bow, arch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?erk?o-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?k/
Noun
arc m (plural arcs)
- bow (weapon)
- arc (curve)
- (geometry) arc, circular arc, circle segment
- (architecture) arch
Derived terms
See also
- flèche f
- arche f
Anagrams
- car
Further reading
- “arc” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin arcus.
Noun
arc m (plural arcs)
- bow (weapon)
- (architecture) arch
Related terms
- arcâ
See also
- frece
Hungarian
Etymology
An archaic compound word of orr (“nose”) and száj (“mouth”), via Proto-Finno-Ugric elements. The original form of these two words was or and szá, the compound word orszá. Over time, the final vowel became short (orsza), the sz changed to c (orca), today a poetic or archaic version. The next change was the initial o to a (arca) which felt as a possessive form and later shortened to the current term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??rt?s]
- Rhymes: -?rt?s
Noun
arc (plural arcok)
- (anatomy) face
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- arc in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
- arc in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a??k/
Etymology 1
From Old Irish orc, arc (“piglet”).
Noun
arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)
- piglet
- diminutive animal or person
Alternative forms
- earc
Synonyms
- arcachán
- arcadán
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”).
Noun
arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)
- (mathematics, geometry) arc
Derived terms
- arclampa (“arc-lamp”)
Etymology 3
Noun
arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)
- Alternative form of earc (“lizard; reptile”)
Declension
Mutation
Further reading
- "arc" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 orc (‘young pig’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin arcus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?k/
Noun
arc m (plural arcs)
- bow
- arch, arc
Derived terms
Old French
Etymology
From Latin arcus.
Noun
arc m (oblique plural ars, nominative singular ars, nominative plural arc)
- bow (weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string)
- (architecture) arch
Coordinate terms
- (bow): saete
Descendants
- ? Middle English: ark, arke
- English: arc
- French: arc
Old High German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ark/
Adjective
arc
- Alternative form of arg
References
- Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin arcus, from Proto-Indo-European *h?erk?o-.
Noun
arc n (plural arcuri)
- bow (a weapon)
- (architecture) arch
Declension
Noun
arc n (plural arce)
- (geometry) arc
Declension
Derived terms
- arcad?
- arcan
- arcatur?
- arca?
- arcui
- arcuibil
- arcuire
- arcuit
- arcuitur?
- arcule?
- arcu?
Related terms
- arcar
See also
- s?geat?
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /arxk/
Noun
arc f
- Bee (apoidea).
- Wasp (vespidae).
- Impost, tax.
- "Femen."(sic)
References
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