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The French word for to bend is
se courber





to bend

French Definition


bend
     1. v. Courber, infléchir.
     2. n. Tournant (d'une rue), virage (d'une rue), courbe (d'un fleuve), pli (d'un coude, d'un genou).
     3. n. (Héraldique) Bande.
           The arms of Scrope is azure a bend or.



Translations for bend and their definitions

virage
     1. n-m. bend, turn, curve
     2. n-m. change, shift (in orientation)
     3. n-m. (skiing) turn
     4. n-m. change in colour


courber
     1. v. to bend (cause to become bent)
     2. v. to bend (e.g. a rule)
     3. v. to bend (become bent)
     4. v. to bend
     5. v. to bow, to bow down, to bend down, to bend over
     6. v. to bend over backwards (be at another's will)


tourner
     1. v. to turn (left, right etc.)
     2. v. to stir (e.g. ingredients)
     3. v. to tour, to go on tour
     4. v. (film) to film, to shoot a film
     5. v. (computing, ambitransitive) to run, to execute (a program, an application etc.)
           Faire tourner un programme sur son ordinateur. - To run a program on one's computer.
     6. v. to lathe


nœud
     1. n-m. knot (tangle)
     2. n-m. knot (unit of speed, one nautical mile per hour)
     3. n-m. (slang) penis
     4. n-m. (slang) stupid person
     5. n-m. (physics, music, computing) node
     6. n-m. knot (muscular tension)


se baisser
     1. to stoop


accident de décompression
     1. n-m. caisson disease, decompression sickness


maladie des caissons
     1. n-f. caisson disease, decompression sickness, divers' disease


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