verb

• (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."
• (intransitive) To become curved.
  "Look at the trees bending in the wind."
• (transitive) To cause to change direction.
  "Bend thine ear to supplication."
• (intransitive) To change direction.
  "The road bends to the right."

noun

• (in the plural, medicine, underwater diving, with the) 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."
• (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.
  "Perhaps the most celebrated coat of arms is that of Scrope, which is Azure a bend Or. This is the coat over which, from 1385 to 1390, Sir Robert le Grosvenor and Sir Richard le Scrope invoked the High Court of Chivalry to decide which of them had the right to bear these arms. Chaucer gave evidence before the court. In the end the arms were awarded to Scrope, and Grosvenor was ordered to difference with a bordure Argent. This he disdained to do, and being highly dissatisfied with the verdict he appealed to Richard II who altered the decision of the court by refusing to allow the bend to Grosvenor at all! Grosvenor then adopted a garb, or sheaf of corn."
• (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
  "Farewell, poor swain; thou art not for my bend."
• (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.