different between bend vs edge

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)

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

2. (intransitive) To become curved.

3. (transitive) To cause to change direction.
4. (intransitive) To change direction.

5. (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
6. (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.

7. (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.

8. (transitive) To force to submit.
9. (intransitive) To submit.

10. (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
11. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.

12. (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
13. (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.

14. (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.

15. (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

bend (plural bends)

1. A curve.
   • 1968, Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues

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

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

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.
5. (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
   • 1608, John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess, Act 1, Scene 3

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

6. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
7. (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
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.
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

10. (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

1. pond, water reservoir
2. idle or provocative words
3. servant, henchman

Related terms

• përbindësh

Northern Kurdish

Noun

bend ?

1. slave

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From benda, bende (“to bend”).

Noun

bend n (definite singular bendet, indefinite plural bend, definite plural benda)

1. a bend
2. a bent position
3. a butt on a thick rope

Participle

bend (neuter bendt, definite singular and plural bende)

1. past participle of benda and bende

Verb

bend

1. imperative of benda and bende

References

• “bend” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Participle

bend

1. inflection of bendr:
   1. strong feminine nominative singular
   2. strong neuter nominative/accusative plural

Verb

bend

1. second-person singular active imperative of benda

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English bend.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?b?d??/

Noun

bend m (plural bends)

1. (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 ?????)

1. (music) band (group of musicians)

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English egge, from Old English e??, from Proto-West Germanic *aggju, from Proto-Germanic *agj? (compare Dutch egge, German Ecke, Swedish egg, Norwegian egg), from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?- (“sharp”) (compare Welsh hogi (“to sharpen, hone”), Latin aci?s (“sharp”), acus (“needle”), Latvian ašs, ass (“sharp”), Ancient Greek ???? (akís, “needle”), ???? (akm?, “point”), and Persian ??? (?s, “grinding stone”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?/
• Hyphenation: edge
• Rhymes: -?d?

Noun

edge (plural edges)

1. The boundary line of a surface.
2. (geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
3. An advantage.
   • 2017 August 25, Euan McKirdy et al, "Arrest warrant to be issued for former Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra", in edition.cnn.com, CNN:

     Thitinan said Yingluck's decision to skip the verdict hearing will have "emboldened" the military government. "They would not have wanted to put her in jail, in this scenario, (but her not showing up today) puts her on the back foot and gives them an edge."

4. (also figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
   • c. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 3, Scene 4, 1818, The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 6, C. Whittingham, London, page 49:

     No, 'tis slander; / Whose edge is sharper than the sword;

   • 1833, Adam Clarke (editor), Revelations, II, 12, The New Testament, page 929:

     And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges:

5. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act 4, Scene 1, 1830, George Steevens (editor), The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 1, page 166:

     Here by, upon the edge of yonder coppice; / A stand, where you may make the fairest shoot.

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1824, Edwartd Hawkins (editor), The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1, page 32:

     In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge / Of battle when it rag'd, in all assaults

   • 1820, Sir W. Scott, Ivanhoe, 1833, The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 3, page 9:

     they never wanted the pretext, and seldom the will, to harass and pursue, even to the very edge of destruction, any of their less powerful neighbours

6. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
   • a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, Sermon X: The Faith and Patience of the Saints, Part 2, The Whole Sermons of Jeremy Taylor, 1841, page 69:

     Death and persecution lose all the ill that they can have, if we do not set an edge upon them by our fears and by our vices.

   • 1820, Sir W. Scott, Ivanhoe, 1827, page 175:

     we are to turn the full edge of our indignation upon the accursed instrument, which had so well nigh occasioned his utter falling away.

7. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)

   in the edge of evening

   • 1670, John Milton, The History of Britain, The Prose Works of John Milton, published 1853, Volume V, page 203

     supposing that the new general, unacquainted with his army, and on the edge of winter, would not hastily oppose them.

8. (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
   • 2004 March 29, R. Bharat Rao Short report: Ind-Pak T1D2 Session 1 in rec.sports.cricket, Usenet

     Finally another edge for 4, this time dropped by the keeper

9. (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
10. In human sexuality, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging.

Synonyms

• (advantage): advantage, gain
• (sharp terminating border): brink, boundary, lip, margin, rim
• (in graph theory): line

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

References

• edge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See also

• Mathworld article on the edges of polygons
• Mathworld article on the edges of polyhedra

Verb

edge (third-person singular simple present edges, present participle edging, simple past and past participle edged)

1. (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.

   He edged the book across the table.

   The muggers edged her into an alley and demanded money.

2. (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.

   He edged away from her.
3. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
4. (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
5. (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
6. (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
   • 2005, Paige Gilchrist, The Big Book of Backyard Projects: Walls, Fences, Paths, Patios, Benches, Chairs & More, Section 2: Paths and Walkways, page 181,

     If you're edging with stone, brick, or another material in a lawn area, set the upper surfaces of the edging just at or not more than ½ inch above ground level so it won't be an obstacle to lawn mowers.

7. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
   • 1690, Richard Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: A Tragedy

     To edge her champion sword

8. (figuratively) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
   • 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt

     By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged.

9. (intransitive, slang) To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
   • 2012, Ryan Field, Field of Dreams: The Very Best Stories of Ryan Field, page 44

     His mouth was open and he was still jerking his dick. Justin knew he must have been edging by then.

Translations

Derived terms

(See above.)

Quotations

• 1925, Walter Anthony and Tom Reed (titles), Rupert Julian (director), The Phantom of the Opera, silent movie

  In Mlle. Carlotta’s correspondence there appeared another letter, edged in black!

Anagrams

• geed