different between bend vs slant
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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- what bender would i be
- what bends light
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- what bends light in the eye
- what bender am i hand
slant
English
Etymology
Late Middle English, from a variant of the earlier form dialectical slent, from Old Norse or another North Germanic source, cognate with Old Norse slent, Swedish slinta (“to slip”), Norwegian slenta (“to fall on the side”), from Proto-Germanic *slintan?. Probably influenced by aslant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?slænt/, /?sl??nt/
- Hyphenation: slant
- Rhymes: -ænt, -??nt
Noun
slant (plural slants)
- A slope; an incline, inclination.
- A sloped surface or line.
- (mining) A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.
- (typography) Synonym of slash ??/??, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text.
- An oblique movement or course.
- (biology) A sloping surface in a culture medium.
- A pan with a sloped bottom used for holding paintbrushes.
- A container or surface bearing shallow sloping areas to hold watercolours.
- (US, obsolete) A sarcastic remark; shade, an indirect mocking insult.
- (slang) An opportunity, particularly to go somewhere.
- (Australia, slang) A crime committed for the purpose of being apprehended and transported to a major settlement.
- (originally US) A point of view, an angle.
- Synonym: bias
- (US) A look, a glance.
- (US, ethnic slur, derogatory) A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.
Synonyms
- (typography): See slash
Derived terms
- downslant
- slant bar
- slant height
- slant line
- slant of wind
- slant rhyme
- slant sight
Related terms
- slent
Translations
Verb
slant (third-person singular simple present slants, present participle slanting, simple past and past participle slanted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To lean, tilt or incline.
- If you slant the track a little more, the marble will roll down it faster.
- 1753, Robert Dodsley, Agriculture
- On the side of yonder slanting hill
- (transitive) To bias or skew.
- The group tends to slant its policies in favor of the big businesses it serves.
- (Scotland, intransitive) To lie or exaggerate.
Related terms
- aslant
- slent
Translations
Adjective
slant
- Sloping; oblique; slanted.
- 2015, Michael Z. Williamson, A Long Time Until Now
- By the eighth day, Alexander and Caswell had lashed together a hut with a slant roof […]
- 2015, Michael Z. Williamson, A Long Time Until Now
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
Anagrams
- lants
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- what slant/bias is evident in each case
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- what slanting line
- slanty meaning
- what's slanted writing called
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