First vs Bend - What's the difference?
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Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
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, title= Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
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Before anything else; firstly.
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, title= (uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.
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(uncountable) The first gear of an engine.
(countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
(countable, baseball) first base
(countable, British, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.
(countable, colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.
A fraction of an integer ending in one.
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.
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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 nouns the difference between first and bend
is that first is ridge (of roof) while bend is a curve.As a verb bend is
to cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means .first
English
(wikipedia first)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), .Alternative forms
* firste (archaic) * fyrst (obsolete) * fyrste (obsolete)Adjective
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PREFACE
- THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Per?ons of the fir?t di?tinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ?everal new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and di?tingui?h it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.
Alternative forms
* ; (in names of monarchs and popes) IAdverb
(-)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.}}
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Noun
Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
Derived terms
* feet first * firstborn * first-class * first gear * first imperative (Latin grammar) * first of all * first place * first things first * first upSee also
* primaryEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), (m), . See also (l).Statistics
*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