Bend vs Cusp - What's the difference?

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Bend is a related term of cusp.

As nouns the difference between bend and cusp

is that bend is a curve while cusp is a sharp point or pointed end.

As a verb bend

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

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

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(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

References

Anagrams

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cusp

English

Noun

(en noun)

A sharp point or pointed end.

(figuratively) An important moment when a decision is made that will determine future events.

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But a sixth successive Premier League win puts them on the cusp of European football next season as they surged 15 points clear of seventh-placed Everton, who have five games left to play.}}

(geometry) A point of a curve where the curve is continuous but has no derivative, but such that it has a derivative at every nearby point.

(architecture) A point made by the intersection of two curved lines or curved structures. A common motif in Gothic architecture.Russell Sturgis, ed. (1902). A Dictionary of Architecture and Building: Biographical, Historical, and Descriptive . 3. Macmillan.

(astrology) A boundary between zodiacal signs and houses.

(dentistry) Any of the pointed parts of a canine tooth or molar.

Derived terms

* cuspate * cusp form * cusp neighborhood, cusp neighbourhood * cusped

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