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Bend can be a noun or a verb.

bend used as a noun:

  1. A curve.
  2. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
  3. (the bends) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
  4. 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.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

bend used as a verb:

  1. 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."
  2. To become curved.
    "Look at the trees bending in the wind."
  3. To cause to change direction.
  4. To change direction.
    "The road bends to the right"
  5. To stoop.
    "He bent down to pick up the pieces."
  6. To force to submit.
    "They bent me to their will."
  7. To submit.
    "I am bending to my desire to eat junk food."
  8. To apply to a task or purpose.
    "He bent company's resources to gaining market share."
  9. To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
    "He bent to the goal of gaining market share."
  10. To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
  11. 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."
  12. To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
    "You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure."
  13. To swing the body when rowing.

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

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What type of word is bend?

As detailed above, 'bend' can be a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Verb usage: If you bend the pipe too far, it will break.
  2. Verb usage: Don’t bend your knees.
  3. Verb usage: Look at the trees bending in the wind.
  4. Verb usage: The road bends to the right
  5. Verb usage: He bent down to pick up the pieces.
  6. Verb usage: They bent me to their will.
  7. Verb usage: I am bending to my desire to eat junk food.
  8. Verb usage: He bent company's resources to gaining market share.
  9. Verb usage: He bent to the goal of gaining market share.
  10. Verb usage: Bend the sail to the yard.
  11. Verb usage: You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of bend are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of bend, and guess at its most common usage.

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The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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