Bending

What do we mean by bending?

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

To become curved.

To cause to change direction.

To change direction.

To be inclined; to direct itself.

(usually with "down") To stoop.

To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.

To force to submit.

To submit.

To apply to a task or purpose.

To apply oneself to a task or purpose.

To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.

To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.

To smoothly change the pitch of a note.

To swing the body when rowing.

Verb. to engage in a bender, that is, a brief or extended period of intensive drinking, drug usage, and /or other forms of extreme indulgence, generally in response to periods of high stress. In addition, can sometimes also allude to acts of over-the-top homosexual behaviour or indulgence, as in the British slang noun "bender" or adjective "bent." Urban Dictionary

V. Being able to control matter without touching it. Urban Dictionary

Dancing by rotating your butt on someones pelvis. Urban Dictionary

To alter the truth to make a story more entertaining. Also to exagerrate facts to make them seem more incredible or unbelievable. Urban Dictionary

N. Decompression sickness, caused when a diver moves from a high-pressure environment to one of low pressure too rapidly, causing bubbles to form in their bloodstream as gases in pressurized, liquid form quickly revert to their natural state. Symptoms include: blotchy rashes, coughing spasms, dizziness, unconsciousness, and a bizarre inability to bend joints (hence, the phrase the bends). Urban Dictionary

A place where you will find yuppies and rednecks constantly fighting over nothing. If you are not careful, you might end up homeless while playing Musical Houses. Urban Dictionary

A shallow, jobless, culturally bereft town in the middle of Oregon that likes to think of itself as otherwise. Most of its citizens are obsessed with the personal images associated with "organic," "active," "outdoors," and especially "local", which is ironic because most of them aren't from around here. In truth, most Bendites are a bunch of delusional, isolationist yuppies who have no concept of themselves or of the real world around them thanks to the veneer of bullshit with which they surround themselves. Urban Dictionary

I just want to say that #3 on the definition list is wrong. Radiohead did not use 'the bends' as a metaphor for drugs - it was (quite an obvious, i thought) metaphor for their fast rise to the top and how it drove them crazy that everyone suddenly loved them for this one song and their frustration i guess at fake people who just wanted to be with them for their fame. This is also implied in the EP My Iron Lung (Iron Lung being a metaphor for the song "Creep" incase you didn't catch that). Urban Dictionary

1. the most badass radiohead CD ever created. its was their second and best Urban Dictionary

To get drunk, usually results in said person becoming bent. Possibly short for "bend elbows". Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to bending:
bending, binding, ending, sending, lending, bonding, pending, tending, blending, bedding, banding, mending, vending, rending, beading, benning, fending, wending, belding, bunding, benzing, gending, bening, berding, bendin, hending, benting.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word bending:
flexural, torsional, straightening, twisting, stiffness, tensile, bends, rigidity, modulus, torsion, stresses, deflection, knees, medial, shear, loads, distal, curvature, beam, bender, fascia, waist, deformation, intersecting, axial, bend, fold, moment, elastic, stress, compression, northward, backwards, bent, eastward, beams, vibration, transverse, semiconductor, radius, stretching, moments, spine, tension, diagram, hamlet, roadway, lifting, thickness, angle, strings, knee, curve, plate, strain, fingers, load, costa, sheet, axis, rod, angles, plates, curves, flexible, tube, shapes, neutral, equation, northeast, strength, blade, pipe, horizontal, vertical, tip, string, neck, bars, bow, wire, breaking, shape, legs, plastic, pitch, steel, structural, slightly, forming, arm, junction, northwest, southeast, tools, metal, rules, weight, leg, muscle.

Words that rhyme with bending:
condescending, impending, pending, ending, trending, blending, lending, ascending, descending, attending, spending, mending, tending, rending, pretending, unending, extending, vending, depending, contending, transcending, commending, offending, unbending, sending, intending, wending, amending, defending, expending, fending, apprehending, portending, deficit spending, comprehending, recommending, friending, misspending, overspending, suspending, befriending, overextending, compensatory spending, tone ending, outspending, chen ding, depend ing, end hung, end ing, extend ing, friend hung, relending, spend ing, tien dung.

Adjectives that are often used to describe bending:
lateral, pure, point, slight, forward, simple, excessive, plane, backward, biaxial, local, elastic, plastic, static, cold, side, longitudinal, unsymmetrical, downward, maximum, much, negative, positive, constant, uniform, sharp, considerable, severe, vertical, secondary, cyclic, hot, upward, sudden, sickle, apparent, mind, significant, inward, cylindrical, repetitive, permanent, uniaxial, gradual, frequent, knee, gentle, symmetric, slow, greatest, continuous, less, horizontal, induced, mechanical, gravitational, overall, alternate, axis, simultaneous, extreme, axial, appreciable, symmetrical, combined, oroclinal, light, subsequent, continual, cross, outward, abnormal, abrupt, phototropic.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective bending:
moment, diagram, curve, diagrams, test, distribution, tests, machine, point, curves, moments, mode, machines, stress, torsion, strength, stresses, increases, pliers, exercises, drugs, capacity, motion, die, twisting, extension, equation, exercise, supply, beam, rotation, coupling, coefficients, films, envelope, specimens, loads, modes, strain, posture, vibrations, rolls, distributions, vibration, postures, radiographs, tension, schedules, schedule, polygon, poses, specimen, magnet, ordinates.

Consonant match to bending:
binding, bonding, bounding, banding, bandung, band hung, bind ing.

Words that sound like bending:
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