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Bend vs Arc - What's the difference?

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Arc is a synonym of bend.



In intransitive terms the difference between bend and arc

is that bend is to apply oneself to a task or purpose while arc is to form an electrical arc.

As verbs the difference between bend and arc

is that bend is to cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means while arc is to move following a curved path.

As nouns the difference between bend and arc

is that bend is a curve while arc is that part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon.

As an acronym ARC is

aIDS-related complex.

bend

English

Verb

  • To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
    • If you bend the pipe too far, it will break.
    Don’t bend your knees.
  • To become curved.
    • Look at the trees bending in the wind.
  • To cause to change direction.
  • * Milton
    • Bend thine ear to supplication.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Towards Coventry bend we our course.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • bending her eyes upon her parent
  • To change direction.
    • The road bends to the right
  • To be inclined; to direct itself.
  • * Milton
    • to whom our vows and wishes bend
  • To stoop.
    • He bent down to pick up the pieces.
  • To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
  • * Coleridge
    • Each to his great Father bends .
  • To force to submit.
    • They bent me to their will.
  • * Shakespeare
    • except she bend her humour
  • To submit.
    • I am bending to my desire to eat junk food.
  • To apply to a task or purpose.
    • He bent the company's resources to gaining market share.
  • * Temple
    • to bend his mind to any public business
  • * Alexander Pope
    • when to mischief mortals bend their will
  • To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
    • He bent to the goal of gaining market share.
  • To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
  • (nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
    • Bend the sail to the yard.
  • (music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
    • You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure.
  • (nautical) To swing the body when rowing.

    • Derived terms

    * bend down * bend over * bend over backwards * bend somebody's ear * on bended knee * bend one's elbow * bend out of shape * bend the truth

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A curve.
  • * 1968 , (Johnny Cash),
    • I hear the train a comin'/It's rolling round the bend
  • * , chapter=1
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
  • (nautical) Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
    • (Totten)
  • A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
  • (heraldiccharge) 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.
  • * Fletcher
    • Farewell, poor swain; thou art not for my bend .
  • In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt.
  • (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

    Derived terms

    * around the bend * bend sinister * bendlet * bendsome * bendy * drive somebody round the bend * in bend * sheet bend * string bend

    Related terms

    * bent

    References

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    Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs English irregular verbs ----

    arc

    English

    (wikipedia arc)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (astronomy) That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon.
  • (geometry) A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of an other curve.
  • A curve, in general.
  • A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape.
  • (electrics) A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge between either two electrodes or as lightning.
  • A story arc.
  • (mathematics) A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.
  • (graph theory) A directed edge.

    • Synonyms

    * (curve) curve, swoop * (circular arc) circular arc, circle segment * (directed edge) arrow, directed edge

    Verb

  • To move following a curved path.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
    • , date=February 4 , author=Gareth Roberts , title=Wales 19-26 England , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Gatland's side got back to within striking distance when fly-half Jones's clever pass sent centre Jonathan Davies arcing round Shontayne Hape.}}
  • To form an electrical arc.

    • Related terms

    * arch

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