Bend vs. Blend — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bend and Blend
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Bend
To cause to assume a curved or angular shape
Bend a piece of iron into a horseshoe.
Blend
To combine or mix (different substances) so that the constituent parts are indistinguishable from one another
Blended the flour, milk, and eggs.
Blend gasoline with ethanol.
Bend
To bring (a bow, for example) into a state of tension by drawing on a string or line.
Blend
To combine (varieties or grades of the same substance) to obtain a mixture of a particular character, quality, or consistency
Blend coffees.
Bend
To force to assume a different direction or shape, according to one's own purpose
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events” (Robert F. Kennedy).
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Blend
To combine (different elements) into a single entity
A career that blends medicine and engineering.
Bend
To misrepresent; distort
Bend the truth.
Blend
To form a uniform mixture
“The smoke blended easily into the odor of the other fumes” (Norman Mailer).
Bend
To relax or make an exception to
Bend a rule to allow more members into the club.
Blend
To be unobtrusive or harmonious by resembling the surroundings or behaving like others in a group. Often used with in
A female pheasant is brown and blends in with its nesting ground.
Bend
To cause to swerve from a straight line; deflect
Light is bent as it passes through water.
Blend
To create a harmonious effect or result
Picked a tie that blended with the jacket.
Bend
To render submissive; subdue
“[His] words so often bewitched crowds and bent them to his will” (W. Bruce Lincoln).
Blend
The act of blending
The writer's unique blend of fantasy and physics.
Bend
To apply (the mind) closely
“The weary naval officer goes to bed at night having bent his brain all day to a scheme of victory” (Jack Beatty).
Blend
Something, such as an effect or a product, that is created by blending
“His face shows, as he stares at the fire, a blend of fastidiousness and intransigence” (John Fowles).
Bend
(Nautical) To fasten
Bend a mainsail onto the boom.
Blend
(Linguistics) A word produced by combining parts of other words, as smog from smoke and fog.
Bend
To deviate from a straight line or position
The lane bends to the right at the bridge.
Blend
A mixture of two or more things.
Their music has been described as a blend of jazz and heavy metal.
Our department has a good blend of experienced workers and young promise.
Bend
To assume a curved, crooked, or angular form or direction
The saplings bent in the wind.
Blend
(linguistics) A word formed by combining two other words; a grammatical contamination, portmanteau word.
Bend
To incline the body; stoop.
Blend
(transitive) To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.
To make hummus you need to blend chickpeas, olive oil, lemon juice and garlic.
Bend
To make a concession; yield.
Blend
(intransitive) To be mingled or mixed.
Bend
To apply oneself closely; concentrate
She bent to her task.
Blend
(obsolete) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.
Bend
The act or fact of bending.
Blend
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.
Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay.
Bend
The state of being bent.
Blend
To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.
Bend
Something bent
A bend in the road.
Blend
To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors.
There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality.
Bend
A knot that joins a rope to a rope or another object.
Blend
To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive.
Bend
Bends The thick planks in a ship's side; wales.
Blend
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.
Bend
Bends (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Decompression sickness. Used with the.
Blend
An occurrence of thorough mixing
Bend
A band passing from the upper dexter corner of an escutcheon to the lower sinister corner.
Blend
A new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings;
`smog' is a blend of `smoke' and `fog'
`motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor' and `hotel'
`brunch' is a well-known portmanteau
Bend
(transitive) 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.
Don’t bend your knees.
Blend
The act of blending components together thoroughly
Bend
(intransitive) To become curved.
Look at the trees bending in the wind.
Blend
Combine into one;
Blend the nuts and raisins together
He blends in with the crowd
We don't intermingle much
Bend
(transitive) To cause to change direction.
Blend
Blend or harmonize;
This flavor will blend with those in your dish
This sofa won't go with the chairs
Bend
(intransitive) To change direction.
The road bends to the right.
Blend
Mix together different elements;
The colors blend well
Bend
(intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
Bend
To stoop.
He bent down to pick up the pieces.
Bend
(intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
Bend
(transitive) To force to submit.
They bent me to their will.
Bend
(intransitive) To submit.
I am bending to my desire to eat junk food.
Bend
(transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
He bent the company's resources to gaining market share.
Bend
(intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
He bent to the goal of gaining market share.
Bend
(transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
Bend
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.
Bend
To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure.
Bend
To swing the body when rowing.
Bend
A curve.
There's a sharp bend in the road ahead.
Bend
Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
Bend
A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
A diver who stays deep for too long must ascend very slowly in order to prevent the bends.
Bend
(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.
Bend
(obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
Bend
In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
Bend
(mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
Bend
The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
Bend
The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
The midship bends
Bend
(music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.
Bend
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.
Bend
To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.
Towards Coventry bend we our course.
Bending her eyes . . . upon her parent.
Bend
To apply closely or with interest; to direct.
To bend his mind to any public business.
But when to mischief mortals bend their will.
Bend
To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.
Bend
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.
Bend
To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.
The green earth's endWhere the bowed welkin slow doth bend.
Bend
To jut over; to overhang.
There is a cliff, whose high and bending headLooks fearfully in the confined deep.
Bend
To be inclined; to be directed.
To whom our vows and wished bend.
Bend
To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
While each to his great Father bends.
Bend
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.
Bend
Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
Farewell, poor swain; thou art not for my bend.
Bend
A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post.
Bend
The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.
Bend
Hard, indurated clay; bind.
Bend
Same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.
Bend
A band.
Bend
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.
Bend
A circular segment of a curve;
A bend in the road
A crook in the path
Bend
Movement that causes the formation of a curve
Bend
Curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
Bend
An angular or rounded shape made by folding;
A fold in the napkin
A crease in his trousers
A plication on her blouse
A flexure of the colon
A bend of his elbow
Bend
A town in central Oregon at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range
Bend
Diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left
Bend
Form a curve;
The stick does not bend
Bend
Change direction;
The road bends
Bend
Cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form;
Bend the rod
Twist the dough into a braid
The strong man could turn an iron bar
Bend
Bend one's back forward from the waist on down;
He crouched down
She bowed before the Queen
The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse
Bend
Turn from a straight course , fixed direction, or line of interest
Bend
Bend a joint;
Flex your wrists
Bend your knees
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