Bendest vs Bindest - What's the difference?
bendest | bindest |
(bend)
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.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Scott
To change direction.
To be inclined; to direct itself.
* Milton
To stoop.
To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
* Coleridge
To force to submit.
* Shakespeare
To submit.
To apply to a task or purpose.
* Temple
* Alexander Pope
To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
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.
(music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
(nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
A curve.
* 1968 , (Johnny Cash),
* , chapter=1
, title= (nautical) Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
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
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.
(archaic) (bind)
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To tie; to confine by any ligature.
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare)
To cohere or stick together in a mass.
* (rfdate) (Mortimer)
To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
To exert a binding or restraining influence.
To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
* (rfdate) Job xxviii. 11.
* (rfdate) Luke xiii. 16.
To couple.
(figuratively) To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.
* (rfdate) (Milton)
(legal) To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
(legal) To place under legal obligation to serve.
To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
(archaic) To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.
(archaic) To cover, as with a bandage.
(archaic) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action.
To put together in a cover, as of books.
(computing) To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.
* 2008 , Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Donald Bruce Stewart, Real World Haskell (page 33)
* 2009 , Robert Pickering, Beginning F# (page 123)
That which binds or ties.
A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
(music) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
(chess) A strong grip or stranglehold on a position that is difficult for the opponent to break.
As verbs the difference between bendest and bindest
is that bendest is archaic second-person singular of bend while bindest is archaic second-person singular of bind.bendest
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*bend
English
Verb
- If you bend the pipe too far, it will break.
- Don’t bend your knees.
- Look at the trees bending in the wind.
- Bend thine ear to supplication.
- Towards Coventry bend we our course.
- bending her eyes upon her parent
- The road bends to the right
- to whom our vows and wishes bend
- He bent down to pick up the pieces.
- Each to his great Father bends .
- They bent me to their will.
- except she bend her humour
- I am bending to my desire to eat junk food.
- He bent the company's resources to gaining market share.
- to bend his mind to any public business
- when to mischief mortals bend their will
- He bent to the goal of gaining market share.
- Bend the sail to the yard.
- You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure.
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 truthNoun
(en noun)- I hear the train a comin'/It's rolling round the bend
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- (Totten)
- Farewell, poor swain; thou art not for my bend .
- the midship bends
Derived terms
* around the bend * bend sinister * bendlet * bendsome * bendy * drive somebody round the bend * in bend * sheet bend * string bendReferences
*bindest
English
Verb
(head)bind
English
Verb
- They that reap must sheaf and bind .
- ''Just to make the cheese more binding
- clay binds by heat.
- I wish I knew why the sewing machine binds up after I use it for a while.
- These are the ties that bind .
- to bind''' grain in bundles; to '''bind a prisoner.
- Gravity binds the planets to the sun.
- Frost binds the earth.
- He bindeth the floods from overflowing.
- Whom Satan hath bound , lo, these eighteen years.
- to bind''' the conscience; to '''bind''' by kindness; '''bound''' by affection; commerce '''binds nations to each other.
- Who made our laws to bind us, not himself.
- to bind''' an apprentice; '''bound out to service
- to bind a belt about one
- to bind a compress upon a wound.
- to bind up a wound.
- certain drugs bind the bowels.
- The three novels were bound together.
- We bind the variable
nto the value2, andxsto"abcd".
- You can bind an identifier to an object of a derived type, as you did earlier when you bound a string to an identifier of type
obj
Synonyms
* fetter, make fast, tie, fasten, restrain * bandage, dress * restrain, restrict, obligate * * indentureDerived terms
* bind over - to put under bonds to do something, as to appear at court, to keep the peace, etc. * bind to - to contract; as, to bind one's self to a wife. * bind up in - to cause to be wholly engrossed with; to absorb in.Derived terms
* bindweedNoun
(en noun)- the Maróczy Bind
