different between bend vs slope
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
bend From the web:
- what bender are you
- what bender am i
- what bender are you quiz
- what bender would i be
- what bends light
- what bending element are you
- what bends light in the eye
- what bender am i hand
slope
English
Etymology
From aslope (adjective, adverb).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /slo?p/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sl??p/
- Rhymes: -??p
Noun
slope (countable and uncountable, plural slopes)
- An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
- The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
- (mathematics) The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if the line is horizontal, undefined if it is vertical.
- (mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
- The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise to the units of horizontal length (sometimes referred to as run).
- (vulgar, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
Synonyms
- (area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward): bank, embankment, gradient, hill, incline
- (degree to which a surface tends upward or downward): gradient
- (mathematics): first derivative, gradient
- (offensive: Chinese person): Chinaman, Chink
Translations
Verb
slope (third-person singular simple present slopes, present participle sloping, simple past and past participle sloped)
- (intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.
- (transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
- (colloquial, usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously.
- (military) To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.
Derived terms
- ski slope
- slippery slope
- Slope County
- sloping
Translations
Adjective
slope (comparative more slope, superlative most slope)
- (obsolete) Sloping.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Gardens
- A bank not steep, but gently slope.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Gardens
Adverb
slope (comparative more slope, superlative most slope)
- (obsolete) slopingly
Anagrams
- LEPOs, Poles, S-pole, eslop, lopes, olpes, poles, spole
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
slope
- (archaic) singular past subjunctive of sluipen
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of slopen
Anagrams
- sloep, spoel
slope From the web:
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- what slope is perpendicular to 5/8
- what slope is parallel to m=3/4
- what slope is perpendicular to m=3
- what slope is undefined
- what slope is a horizontal line
- what slope is a vertical line
- what slope intercept form
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