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bends

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The principle is that bends in rivers tend to grow as erosion happens on the outside of the bend and soil deposition on the inside.

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Quick take

(underwater diving, pathology, usually with the) Synonym of decompression sickness.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

(underwater diving, pathology, usually with the) Synonym of decompression sickness.

noun

(nautical) The thickest and strongest planks in a wooden ship's side, wales.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for bends.

Example sentences

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The principle is that bends in rivers tend to grow as erosion happens on the outside of the bend and soil deposition on the inside.

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See how the FUD spreader bends itself in all kinds of curves in order to not drown in comments...

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It really feels like it bends over backwards to help administrators get shit done, and done right.

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The boomer plays, kind of bends a bit at the knees, leans his head back and gets under the stick.

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The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice, and all that.

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Sure the tube might get some bends in it that it wasn't designed for, and it might even sag down.

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And avoiding buckling and sudden bends kind of matters when you're traveling at mach 1.

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A microscope reflects light off an object to measure its optical properties, and bends the light with a lens to magnify its size.

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It also bends the blades and changes the angle the blades travel at.

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Does a prism get affected by the momentum of the light it bends?

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It goes off-beat; features arbitrary note lengths and overlapping meters; pitch bends without a second thought; ties performance and production together with the notation.

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To be precise, light can travel through a medium in a straight line, but it bends when it passes from one material to another.

Quote examples

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We know that light bends near a gravitational field with a big gradient before it is "measured".

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But I can see how the default reality probably bends towards "Well, someone left and we need this job filled" -> "I'll just temporarily add that job to my workload" -> "It'd be more effort to move that job's responsibility to someone else, so I'll just keep doing it."

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use bends in a sentence?

The principle is that bends in rivers tend to grow as erosion happens on the outside of the bend and soil deposition on the inside.

What does bends mean?

(underwater diving, pathology, usually with the) Synonym of decompression sickness.

What part of speech is bends?

bends is commonly used as noun.