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Strap vs Bend - What's the difference?

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Strap is a related term of bend.


In lang=en terms the difference between strap and bend

is that strap is to sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a razor while bend is to adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.

As nouns the difference between strap and bend

is that strap is a long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like while bend is a curve.

As verbs the difference between strap and bend

is that strap is to beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash while bend is to cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means .

strap

English

(wikipedia strap)

Alternative forms

* (l), (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
  • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=7 citation , passage=The patter of feet, and clatter of strap and swivel, seemed to swell into a bewildering din, but they were almost upon the fielato offices, where the carretera entered the town, before a rifle flashed.}}
  • A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
  • * (rfdate) Addison:
  • A lively cobbler that had scarce passed a day without giving her [his wife] the discipline of the strap .
  • Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
  • A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
  • A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
  • # (carpentry, machinery) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
  • # (nautical) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
  • (botany) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
  • (botany) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
  • A shoulder strap, see under shoulder.
  • (slang) A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.
  • Derived terms

    * boot strap * shawl strap * stirrup strap * strapless * strap beam

    Verb

  • To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.
  • To fasten or bind with a strap.
  • To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a razor.
  • Derived terms

    * strap on a pair * strap-on

    Anagrams

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    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

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