flex
circumflect
overbend
deflex
incurvate
crankle
bendways
upbend
curb
wingle
bend
garter
swerve
crook
articulate
supple
rebend
prebend
bowing
buck
bendel
retort
twine
downflex
pretzel
extroflection
curvate
bow
teeter
bender
semibent
enarched
ply
bank
knuckle
slant
lean
tip
compassing
stoop
geniculate
hield
tilt
angle
double over
crouch
circumgyrate
fold
multiarticulate
turn up
twist
fold up
twirl
genuflect
scrape
kowtow
wry
inbend
weaver's knot
bendy
veer
couch
weaver's hitch
crank
wrick
twistle
lap
heel
splay
tirl
unbend
benthically
elbowy
slopingly
retroflex
slantingly
wraparound
strut
verge
frogtie
replicate
gnarl
windy
volvulate
left-hander
turn away
introflexion
supple
curvate
semibent
enarched
compassing
geniculate
multiarticulate
wry
bendy
incurvate
elbowy
wraparound
windy
retroflex
bendways
benthically
slopingly
slantingly
garter
bowing
bendel
extroflection
bender
crankle
weaver's knot
weaver's hitch
upbend
left-hander
introflexion
flex
circumflect
overbend
deflex
incurvate
crankle
upbend
curb
wingle
bend
swerve
crook
articulate
rebend
prebend
buck
retort
twine
downflex
pretzel
bow
teeter
ply
bank
knuckle
slant
lean
tip
stoop
hield
tilt
angle
double over
crouch
circumgyrate
fold
turn up
twist
fold up
twirl
genuflect
scrape
kowtow
inbend
veer
couch
crank
wrick
twistle
lap
heel
splay
tirl
unbend
retroflex
strut
verge
frogtie
replicate
gnarl
volvulate
turn away
adv
verb
- To bend or curve.
- To rein in.
- To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
- To crouch; to cringe.
- To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
- To check, restrain or control.
- To bring to a stop beside a curb.
noun
- Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
- A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
- A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand)
- A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by leverage advantage placing pressure on the poll via the crown piece of the bridle and chin groove via a curb chain.
- A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with adjacent paved areas to permit vehicles to off-load or load passengers.
- A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
verb
- To bend; to incline; to give way.
- To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
- To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
- Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
- To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
- To go out of one's way to avoid; to snub.
- To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
- To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off.
noun
verb
- To bend, or form into a hook.
- To become bent or hooked.
- To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
noun
- A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
- A pothook.
- A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
- A bishop's standard staff of office.
- A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
- An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
- A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
- A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
- A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
adj
verb
- To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.
- To make clear or effective.
- To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.
- To speak clearly; to enunciate.
- to form a joint or connect by joints
- to attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.
noun
adj
verb
verb
- To bend; buckle.
- To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
- To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
- To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
- To copulate, as bucks and does.
- To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
- To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
- To break up or pulverize, as ores.
- To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
- To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion.
- To fuck.
- To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
- To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
- To swell out.
- To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
- To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
noun
- The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
- A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
- An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
- A rand (currency unit).
- A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
- Size.
- A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.
- A euro.
- Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”)
- One hundred.
- The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
- A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
- The beech tree.
- Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
- One million dollars.
- The body of a cart or waggon, especially the front part.
- Belly, breast, chest.
- A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
- Money.
- A dollar (one hundred cents).
verb
- To bend or curve back.
- To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
- To heat in a retort.
- To make a remark which reverses an argument upon its originator; to return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility.
- To say something sharp or witty in answer to a remark or accusation.
noun
- A pressure cooker.
- A crematory furnace.
- A sharp or witty reply, or one which turns an argument against its originator; a comeback.
- An airtight vessel in which material is subjected to high temperatures in the chemical industry or as part of an industrial manufacturing process, especially during the smelting and forging of metal.
- A flask with a rounded base and a long neck that is bent down and tapered, used to heat a liquid for distillation.
verb
- To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
- To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
- To weave together.
- To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
- To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
- To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
noun
noun
verb
- To make something bend or curve.
- To become bent or curved.
- To defer (to something).
- To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.
- To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow.
- To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
- To debut.
- To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
noun
- Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
- The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
- The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
- A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
- A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
- Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
- A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and frequently used as decoration, such as in gift-wrapping.
- Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.
- The front of a boat or ship.
- A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
- Either of the arms of a pair of spectacles, running from the side of the lens to behind the wearer's ear.
- The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.
- A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.
- A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.
- A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence
verb
- To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.).
- To work at (something) diligently.
- To press upon; to urge persistently.
- To persist in offering something to, especially for the purpose of inducement or persuasion.
- To travel over (a route) regularly.
- To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or vigorously.
noun
verb
- To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
- To put into a bank.
- To arrange or order in a row.
- To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
- To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
- To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
- To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
- To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
- To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
- To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
noun
- An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
- The ground at the top of a shaft.
- A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
- Money; profit.
- An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
- The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
- The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc
- A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
- A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
- An incline, a hill.
- A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
- The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
- A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
- A branch office of such an institution.
- A device used to store coins or currency.
- An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
- A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
- The face of the coal at which miners are working.
- An underwriter or controller of a card game.
- A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
- A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
- A bench or seat for judges in court.
- A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
- In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
- A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
- A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
verb
- To bend the fingers.
- To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles.
- To strike or punch.
- To yield.
- To land on the knuckle of a curve of a slope, after a jump off a ramp that precedes the slope.
- To touch one's forehead as a mark of respect.
noun
- The rounded point where a flat changes to a slope on a piste.
- A cut of meat.
- The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.
- A mechanical joint.
- The kneejoint of a quadruped, especially of a calf; formerly used of the kneejoint of a human being.
- Any of the joints between the phalanges of the fingers.
- A contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; a knuckle duster.
- A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom.
adj
verb
- To form into a bent or curved shape.
- To make circuits (around an area or space).
- To move around something.
- To turn in a circle around an axis or fixed point.
- To cause to move around something; to cause to orbit.
- To be formed into a bent or curved shape (around something).
- To cause to turn in a circle around an axis or fixed point.
verb
- To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
- To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
- To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
- To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
- In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
- To turn a knob etc.
- To join together by twining one part around another.
- To wind into; to insinuate.
- To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
- To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
- To cause to rotate.
- To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
- To coax.
- To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
noun
- A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
- A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
- A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
- A twisting force.
- The form given in twisting.
- An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
- A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
- The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
- A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
- A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
- The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
- Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
- A small roll of tobacco.
- A sprain, especially to the ankle.
- A girl, a woman.
- A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
- A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
- A rotation of the body when diving.
verb
- To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
- To attach a thread onto fabric with small stitches in order to add texture.
- To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.
- To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.
- To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.
- To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.
- To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
- To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).
- To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.
- In the treatment of a cataract in the eye, to displace the opaque lens with a sharp object such as a needle. The technique is regarded as largely obsolete.
noun
- The den of an otter.
- A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.
- A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
- Psychotherapy.
- Couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.
- An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.
- A bed, a resting-place.
verb
- To turn.
- To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
- To turn by means of a crank.
- To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
- To turn a crank.
- To be running at a high level of output or effort.
adj
- Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
- Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
- Sick; unwell.
- Strange, weird, odd.
noun
- Synonym of methamphetamine.
- A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
- An amateur in science or other technical subjects who persistently advocates flawed theories
- The penis.
- A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
- An ill-tempered or nasty person.
- The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
- A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
- a fit of temper or passion.
verb
- To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
- to envelop, enfold
- To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- to wind around
- To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
- To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
- To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
- To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
- To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
- To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
- To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
- to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
- To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
noun
- A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
- The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
- The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
- The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
- The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
- In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
- One circuit around a race track.
- An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
- A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
- That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
- The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
- A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
- The act or process of lapping.
- The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
- a place of rearing and fostering
- The upper legs of a seated person.
verb
- To incline to one side; to tilt.
- To add a heel to, or increase the size of the heel of (a shoe or boot).
- To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
- To follow at somebody's heels; to chase closely.
- To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, etc.
- To hit (the ball) with the heel of the club.
- To make (a fair catch) standing with one foot forward, the heel on the ground and the toe up.
- To kick with the heel.
noun
- The act of inclining or canting from a vertical position; a cant.
- A woman's high-heeled shoe.
- Anything resembling a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.
- The base of a bun sliced in half lengthwise.
- The part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel.
- The last or lowest part of anything.
- The short side of an angled cut.
- A headlining wrestler regarded as a "bad guy," whose ring persona embodies villainous or reprehensible traits and demonstrates characteristics of a braggart and a bully.
- The rear part of a sock or similar covering for the foot.
- In a carding machine, the part of a flat nearest the cylinder.
- The junction between the keel and the stempost of a vessel; an angular wooden join connecting the two.
- A contemptible, unscrupulous, inconsiderate or thoughtless person.
- The part of a club head's face nearest the shaft.
- The obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.
- The lower end of the bit (cutting edge) of an axehead; as opposed to the toe (upper end).
- The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.
- The back, upper part of the stock.
- The part of the palm of a hand closest to the wrist.
- The cards set aside for later use in a patience or solitaire game.
- A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
- The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter.
verb
- To remove a bend so as to make, or allow to become, straight.
- To cast loose or untie
- To cease to be bent; to become straight.
- To relax in exertion, attention, severity, or the like
- To release (a load) from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; to relax.
- To unfasten sails from the spars or stays to which are attached for use.
adv
adv
adj
- That extends around a corner or bend.
- Designed to be wrapped around the body and tied.
- Serving to surround or bookend something else.
noun
- Word wrap, the word processing feature that moves text on to the next line if it will not fit on the current one.
- A label or advertising display that wraps around a container.
- An extension to a property that combines side and rear extensions.
- The wrapping of numerical value in case of underflow or overflow.
- A segment where material featuring one person (such as a reporter) is introduced and concluded by another person.
- A garment that is wrapped around the body and tied.
- Synonym of wraparound mortgage
verb
- To be attached diagonally or at a slant; also, to be bent at a sharp angle.
- Of a peacock or other fowl: to stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out.
- To walk across or on (a stage or other place) haughtily or proudly.
- To walk haughtily or proudly with one's head held high.
- To brace or support (something) by a strut or struts; to hold (something) in place or strengthen by a diagonal, transverse, or upright support.
noun
- A beam or rod providing support.
- An act of strutting (“bracing or supporting (something) by a strut or struts (sense 1); attaching diagonally; bending at a sharp angle”); specifically, deviation (of the spoke of a wheel) from the normal position.
- An instrument for adjusting the pleats of a ruff.
- A step or walk done stiffly and with the head held high, often due to haughtiness or pride; affected dignity in walking.
verb
noun
- A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
- The grassy area between the footpath and the street; a tree lawn; a grassed strip running alongside either side of an outback road.
- The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
- An edge or border.
- An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
- The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.
- The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
- A circumference; a circle; a ring.
- An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen.
- The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof.
noun
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