Bend vs. Blend — What's the Difference?

To cause to assume a curved or angular shape

To combine or mix (different substances) so that the constituent parts are indistinguishable from one another

To bring (a bow, for example) into a state of tension by drawing on a string or line.

To combine (varieties or grades of the same substance) to obtain a mixture of a particular character, quality, or consistency

To force to assume a different direction or shape, according to one's own purpose

To combine (different elements) into a single entity

To misrepresent; distort

To form a uniform mixture

To relax or make an exception to

To be unobtrusive or harmonious by resembling the surroundings or behaving like others in a group. Often used with in

To cause to swerve from a straight line; deflect

To create a harmonious effect or result

To render submissive; subdue

The act of blending

To apply (the mind) closely

Something, such as an effect or a product, that is created by blending

(Nautical) To fasten

(Linguistics) A word produced by combining parts of other words, as smog from smoke and fog.

To deviate from a straight line or position

A mixture of two or more things.

To assume a curved, crooked, or angular form or direction

(linguistics) A word formed by combining two other words; a grammatical contamination, portmanteau word.

To incline the body; stoop.

(transitive) To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.

To make a concession; yield.

(intransitive) To be mingled or mixed.

To apply oneself closely; concentrate

(obsolete) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.

The act or fact of bending.

To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound.

The state of being bent.

To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.

Something bent

To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors.

A knot that joins a rope to a rope or another object.

To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive.

Bends The thick planks in a ship's side; wales.

A thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins.

Bends (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Decompression sickness. Used with the.

An occurrence of thorough mixing

A band passing from the upper dexter corner of an escutcheon to the lower sinister corner.

A new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings;

(transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.

The act of blending components together thoroughly

(intransitive) To become curved.

Combine into one;

(transitive) To cause to change direction.

Blend or harmonize;

(intransitive) To change direction.

Mix together different elements;

(intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.

To stoop.

(intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.

(transitive) To force to submit.

(intransitive) To submit.

(transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.

(intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.

(transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.

To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.

To smoothly change the pitch of a note.

To swing the body when rowing.

A curve.

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.

(heraldry) 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.

In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.

(mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.

The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.

The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.

(music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.

To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.

To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.

To apply closely or with interest; to direct.

To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.

To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.

To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.

To jut over; to overhang.

To be inclined; to be directed.

To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.

A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road.

Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.

A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post.

The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.

Hard, indurated clay; bind.

Same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.

A band.

One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base.

A circular segment of a curve;

Movement that causes the formation of a curve

Curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)

An angular or rounded shape made by folding;

A town in central Oregon at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range

Diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left

Form a curve;

Change direction;

Cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form;

Bend one's back forward from the waist on down;

Turn from a straight course , fixed direction, or line of interest

Bend a joint;