Decline vs Bend - What's the difference?
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Downward movement, fall.(rfex)
A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.(rfex)
(senseid)A weakening.(rfex)
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A reduction or diminution of activity.
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To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
To become weaker or worse.
To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
* Thomson
* Spenser
To cause to decrease or diminish.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* Burton
To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
* Bible, Psalms cxix. 157
To refuse, forbear.
* Massinger
* , chapter=7
, title= To inflect for case, number and sometimes gender.
* Ascham
(by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
(American football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
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.
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, 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.
As verbs the difference between decline and bend
is that decline is while bend is to cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means .As an adjective decline
is declined.As a noun bend is
a curve.decline
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.}}
- It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
Antonyms
* inclineVerb
(declin)- in melancholy deep, with head declined
- And now fair Phoebus gan decline in haste / His weary wagon to the western vale.
- You have declined his means.
- He knoweth his error, but will not seek to decline it.
- a line that declines from straightness
- conduct that declines from sound morals
- Yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
- Could I decline this dreadful hour?
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.}}
- after the first declining of a noun and a verb
- (Shakespeare)
- The team chose to decline the fifteen-yard penalty because their receiver had caught the ball for a thirty-yard gain.
Derived terms
* declension * declinationExternal links
* * * ----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
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.}}
- (Totten)
- Farewell, poor swain; thou art not for my bend .
- the midship bends
