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- Bent or curved.
- Having been played by a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).
- Having a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).
- (in combination) Equipped with a bow (weapon).
- have legs that curve outward at the knees
- of a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow
- forming or resembling an arch
- showing an excessively deferential manner
verb
verb
noun
- a circular segment of a curve
- a long staff with one end being hook shaped
- someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
- A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
- A bishop's standard staff of office.
- A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
- A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
- A pothook.
- An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
- A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
- A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
- (music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
adj
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- bend or cause to bend
- extend in curves and turns
- form an arch or curve
- form a curl, curve, or kink
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- (transitive) To bend; to crook.
- (transitive) To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
- (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
- (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
- (transitive, slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
noun
- a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter
- curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
- a line on a graph representing data
- the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes
- the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface
- (informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
- (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
- (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
- (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
- (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
- A gentle bend, such as in a road.
- A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
- (nonstandard, by extension) A grading system where all raw scores are raised by a set amount of points.
- A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
noun
- A bent; a direction.
- (artificial intelligence, combinatorial game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.
- (now chiefly Scotland) A condition, a state.
- A layer of material.
- (colloquial) Clipping of plywood.
- A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.
- one of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination
- (usually in combinations) one of several layers of cloth or paper or wood as in plywood
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- (intransitive) To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.).
- (transitive) To work at (something) diligently.
- (transitive) To persist in offering something to, especially for the purpose of inducement or persuasion.
- (transitive) To press upon; to urge persistently.
- (ambitransitive, transport) To travel over (a route) regularly.
- (transitive) To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or vigorously.
- join together as by twisting, weaving, or molding
- wield vigorously
- use diligently
- apply oneself diligently
- give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
- travel a route regularly
adj
- Bent or curved backwards.
- bent or curved backward
- (phonetics) Of pronunciation in which the tip of the tongue is raised and bent backwards, so that the underside of the tongue approaches or touches the palate.
- (phonetics, general sense) Of any of the aforementioned pronunciations.
- (phonetics) Of pronunciation in which the blade of the tongue approaches or touches the back of the alveolar ridge.
- (phonetics) Of pronunciation in which the tip of the tongue approaches or touches the back of the alveolar ridge.
- pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate
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- (phonetics, general sense) Any of the aforementioned consonants.
- (phonetics) A consonant pronounced with the blade of the tongue approaching or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.
- (phonetics) A consonant pronounced with the underside of the tongue approaching or touching the palate.
- (phonetics) A consonant pronounced with the tip of the tongue approaching or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.
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- bend a joint
- bend one's back forward from the waist on down
- change direction
- form a curve
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest
- (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
- (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
- (transitive) To force to submit.
- (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
- (transitive) To cause to change direction.
- (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
- (intransitive) To become curved.
- (intransitive) To change direction.
- (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
- (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
- (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
- (intransitive) To submit.
- (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
- (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
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- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- a circular segment of a curve
- curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
- movement that causes the formation of a curve
- diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left
- (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.
- (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.
- A curve.
- (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
- (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another, especially one accomplished by bending a string (such as on guitar).
- (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
- In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
- (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.
- Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
verb
- bend a joint
- exhibit the strength of
- contract
- form a curve
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- (transitive, slang) To boast or brag about; to flaunt (something).
- (transitive) To repeatedly bend one of one's joints.
- (intransitive) To tighten the muscles for display of size or strength.
- (transitive) To move part of the body using one's muscles.
- (transitive, chiefly physics or biomechanics) To bend something.
- (intransitive, slang) To flaunt one's superiority; to show off.
noun
- the act of flexing
- (countable) An act of flexing.
- (uncountable, chiefly UK, Ireland) Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.
- (uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.
- (countable, geometry) A point of inflection.
- (countable) A flexible insulated electrical cord.
- (uncountable) Flexible ductwork, typically flexible plastic over a metal wire coil to shape a tube.
- (countable, slang) An act or instance of flaunting something; a boast or brag; something considered impressive.
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- A bend or crease.
- (Christianity) A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; also, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
- (collective) A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.
- (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
- One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.
- One of the doorleaves of a folding door.
- An enclosure or dwelling generally.
- (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
- An act of folding.
- A clasp, embrace.
- Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.
- (functional programming) Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
- (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
- (figuratively) Home, family.
- (figuratively) A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
- (programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
- Any correct move in origami.
- A coil of a snake’s body.
- A layer, typically of folded or wrapped cloth.
- a group of sheep or goats
- the act of folding
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock
- a pen for sheep
- a folded part (as in skin or muscle)
verb
- (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- (transitive) To double or lay together (one’s arms, hands, wings, etc.) so as to overlap with each other.
- (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
- (intransitive) To fail, to collapse, to disband.
- (transitive) To enclose within folded arms, to clasp, to embrace (see also enfold).
- (transitive, computing) To split (a line of text) across multiple lines, to obey line length limitations.
- (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
- (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
- (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
- (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.
- (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
- (transitive) To confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in.
- (transitive) To place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it.
- (transitive, cooking) To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover up, to conceal.
- (transitive, figuratively) To include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc.
- (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
- (transitive) To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.
- (transitive) To enclose in a fold of material, to swathe, wrap up, cover, enwrap.
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- become folded or folded up
- confine in a fold, like sheep
- incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating
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- An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
- (linguistics, rare) The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
- (linguistics) The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.
- The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
- (chiefly photography) A reflection or an image produced by a reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
- an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus
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- Cramped, bent.
- (aviation, of an approach and landing) Performed with one's aircraft pointed at an angle to the runway to compensate for a crosswind; performed with nonzero crab.
- Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
- (of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.
- (aviation, of an aircraft) Pointed at an angle to the runway during approach and landing to compensate for a crosswind.
- annoyed and irritable
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- A hairpin bend.
- A cross-course.
- (dance) A step in which one leg crosses behind the other.
- (American football) A play in which the player with the ball crosses to one side of the field and then doubles back to the other.
- A cross between a hybrid species and one of the original parent species.
- A return to the original course of action by one who previously changed to a different course of action, or the person making that return.
- Two pieces on the back of an item (for attaching or bracing it) which form an "X".
- An "X"-shaped railroad crossing sign.
- (derogatory, offensive) A Catholic.
- A species resulting from such a crossback.
- The measurement from the outer edge of one shoulder blade to the outer edge of the other.
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- To bend over.
- To bend to excess; to bend farther than the desired or intended amount.
- (guitar) To increase the tension on a string at the fret, causing the note to sharpen.
- (harmonica) To overblow or overdraw in order to create a note that is sharper; to move the point in the mouth where airflow is narrowest forward.
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- The portion of a pipeline that curves downward from a higher level to the inflection point where the surface holding the upper part is no longer supporting the pipe.
- (guitar) A note that is played sharp due to overbending.
- An instance of overbending (bending too far).
- The amount by which a material has been overbent.
- (harmonica) A note that is played sharp due to overbending.
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- A physical tilt or bend.
- the act of inclining; bending forward
- A tendency.
- A slant or slope.
- (geometry) The angle of intersection of a reference plane.
- that toward which you are inclined to feel a liking
- (geometry) the angle formed by the x-axis and a given line (measured counterclockwise from the positive half of the x-axis)
- (astronomy) the angle between the plane of the orbit and the plane of the ecliptic stated in degrees
- an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others
- (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
- a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
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noun
verb
adj
noun
- A bent; a direction.
- (artificial intelligence, combinatorial game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.
- (now chiefly Scotland) A condition, a state.
- A layer of material.
- (colloquial) Clipping of plywood.
- A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.
- one of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination
- (usually in combinations) one of several layers of cloth or paper or wood as in plywood
verb
- (intransitive) To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.).
- (transitive) To work at (something) diligently.
- (transitive) To persist in offering something to, especially for the purpose of inducement or persuasion.
- (transitive) To press upon; to urge persistently.
- (ambitransitive, transport) To travel over (a route) regularly.
- (transitive) To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or vigorously.
- join together as by twisting, weaving, or molding
- wield vigorously
- use diligently
- apply oneself diligently
- give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
- travel a route regularly
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verb
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- A bend or crease.
- (Christianity) A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; also, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
- (collective) A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.
- (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
- One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.
- One of the doorleaves of a folding door.
- An enclosure or dwelling generally.
- (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
- An act of folding.
- A clasp, embrace.
- Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.
- (functional programming) Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
- (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
- (figuratively) Home, family.
- (figuratively) A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
- (programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
- Any correct move in origami.
- A coil of a snake’s body.
- A layer, typically of folded or wrapped cloth.
- a group of sheep or goats
- the act of folding
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock
- a pen for sheep
- a folded part (as in skin or muscle)
verb
- (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- (transitive) To double or lay together (one’s arms, hands, wings, etc.) so as to overlap with each other.
- (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
- (intransitive) To fail, to collapse, to disband.
- (transitive) To enclose within folded arms, to clasp, to embrace (see also enfold).
- (transitive, computing) To split (a line of text) across multiple lines, to obey line length limitations.
- (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
- (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
- (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
- (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.
- (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
- (transitive) To confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in.
- (transitive) To place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it.
- (transitive, cooking) To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover up, to conceal.
- (transitive, figuratively) To include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc.
- (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
- (transitive) To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.
- (transitive) To enclose in a fold of material, to swathe, wrap up, cover, enwrap.
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- become folded or folded up
- confine in a fold, like sheep
- incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating
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- A hairpin bend.
- A cross-course.
- (dance) A step in which one leg crosses behind the other.
- (American football) A play in which the player with the ball crosses to one side of the field and then doubles back to the other.
- A cross between a hybrid species and one of the original parent species.
- A return to the original course of action by one who previously changed to a different course of action, or the person making that return.
- Two pieces on the back of an item (for attaching or bracing it) which form an "X".
- An "X"-shaped railroad crossing sign.
- (derogatory, offensive) A Catholic.
- A species resulting from such a crossback.
- The measurement from the outer edge of one shoulder blade to the outer edge of the other.
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- A physical tilt or bend.
- the act of inclining; bending forward
- A tendency.
- A slant or slope.
- (geometry) The angle of intersection of a reference plane.
- that toward which you are inclined to feel a liking
- (geometry) the angle formed by the x-axis and a given line (measured counterclockwise from the positive half of the x-axis)
- (astronomy) the angle between the plane of the orbit and the plane of the ecliptic stated in degrees
- an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others
- (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
- a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
verb
verb
noun
- a circular segment of a curve
- a long staff with one end being hook shaped
- someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
- A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
- A bishop's standard staff of office.
- A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
- A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
- A pothook.
- An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
- A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
- A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
- (music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
adj
verb
- bend or cause to bend
- extend in curves and turns
- form an arch or curve
- form a curl, curve, or kink
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- (transitive) To bend; to crook.
- (transitive) To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
- (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
- (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
- (transitive, slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
noun
- a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter
- curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
- a line on a graph representing data
- the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes
- the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface
- (informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
- (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
- (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
- (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
- (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
- A gentle bend, such as in a road.
- A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
- (nonstandard, by extension) A grading system where all raw scores are raised by a set amount of points.
- A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
verb
- bend a joint
- bend one's back forward from the waist on down
- change direction
- form a curve
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest
- (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
- (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
- (transitive) To force to submit.
- (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
- (transitive) To cause to change direction.
- (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
- (intransitive) To become curved.
- (intransitive) To change direction.
- (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
- (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
- (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
- (intransitive) To submit.
- (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
- (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
noun
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- a circular segment of a curve
- curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
- movement that causes the formation of a curve
- diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left
- (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.
- (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.
- A curve.
- (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
- (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another, especially one accomplished by bending a string (such as on guitar).
- (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
- In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
- (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.
- Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
verb
- bend a joint
- exhibit the strength of
- contract
- form a curve
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- (transitive, slang) To boast or brag about; to flaunt (something).
- (transitive) To repeatedly bend one of one's joints.
- (intransitive) To tighten the muscles for display of size or strength.
- (transitive) To move part of the body using one's muscles.
- (transitive, chiefly physics or biomechanics) To bend something.
- (intransitive, slang) To flaunt one's superiority; to show off.
noun
- the act of flexing
- (countable) An act of flexing.
- (uncountable, chiefly UK, Ireland) Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.
- (uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.
- (countable, geometry) A point of inflection.
- (countable) A flexible insulated electrical cord.
- (uncountable) Flexible ductwork, typically flexible plastic over a metal wire coil to shape a tube.
- (countable, slang) An act or instance of flaunting something; a boast or brag; something considered impressive.
adj
- Bent or curved backwards.
- bent or curved backward
- (phonetics) Of pronunciation in which the tip of the tongue is raised and bent backwards, so that the underside of the tongue approaches or touches the palate.
- (phonetics, general sense) Of any of the aforementioned pronunciations.
- (phonetics) Of pronunciation in which the blade of the tongue approaches or touches the back of the alveolar ridge.
- (phonetics) Of pronunciation in which the tip of the tongue approaches or touches the back of the alveolar ridge.
- pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate
verb
noun
- (phonetics, general sense) Any of the aforementioned consonants.
- (phonetics) A consonant pronounced with the blade of the tongue approaching or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.
- (phonetics) A consonant pronounced with the underside of the tongue approaching or touching the palate.
- (phonetics) A consonant pronounced with the tip of the tongue approaching or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.
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- To bend over.
- To bend to excess; to bend farther than the desired or intended amount.
- (guitar) To increase the tension on a string at the fret, causing the note to sharpen.
- (harmonica) To overblow or overdraw in order to create a note that is sharper; to move the point in the mouth where airflow is narrowest forward.
noun
- The portion of a pipeline that curves downward from a higher level to the inflection point where the surface holding the upper part is no longer supporting the pipe.
- (guitar) A note that is played sharp due to overbending.
- An instance of overbending (bending too far).
- The amount by which a material has been overbent.
- (harmonica) A note that is played sharp due to overbending.
adj
adj
- Bent or curved.
- Having been played by a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).
- Having a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).
- (in combination) Equipped with a bow (weapon).
- have legs that curve outward at the knees
- of a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow
- forming or resembling an arch
- showing an excessively deferential manner
verb
adj
- Bent or curved backwards.
- bent or curved backward
- (phonetics) Of pronunciation in which the tip of the tongue is raised and bent backwards, so that the underside of the tongue approaches or touches the palate.
- (phonetics, general sense) Of any of the aforementioned pronunciations.
- (phonetics) Of pronunciation in which the blade of the tongue approaches or touches the back of the alveolar ridge.
- (phonetics) Of pronunciation in which the tip of the tongue approaches or touches the back of the alveolar ridge.
- pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate
verb
noun
- (phonetics, general sense) Any of the aforementioned consonants.
- (phonetics) A consonant pronounced with the blade of the tongue approaching or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.
- (phonetics) A consonant pronounced with the underside of the tongue approaching or touching the palate.
- (phonetics) A consonant pronounced with the tip of the tongue approaching or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.
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noun
verb
adj
noun
- An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
- (linguistics, rare) The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
- (linguistics) The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.
- The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
- (chiefly photography) A reflection or an image produced by a reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
- an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus
verb
adj
- Cramped, bent.
- (aviation, of an approach and landing) Performed with one's aircraft pointed at an angle to the runway to compensate for a crosswind; performed with nonzero crab.
- Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
- (of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.
- (aviation, of an aircraft) Pointed at an angle to the runway during approach and landing to compensate for a crosswind.
- annoyed and irritable