The difference between Bend and Curb
When used as nouns, bend means a curve, whereas curb means a concrete margin along the edge of a road.
When used as verbs, bend means to cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means, whereas curb means to check, restrain or control.
check bellow for the other definitions of Bend and Curb
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Bend as a verb (transitive):
To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
Examples:
"If you bend the pipe too far, it will break."
"Don’t bend your knees."
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Bend as a verb (intransitive):
To become curved.
Examples:
"Look at the trees bending in the wind."
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Bend as a verb (transitive):
To cause to change direction.
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Bend as a verb (intransitive):
To change direction.
Examples:
"The road bends to the right"
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Bend as a verb (intransitive):
To be inclined; to direct itself.
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Bend as a verb (intransitive, usually, with "down"):
To stoop.
Examples:
"He bent down to pick up the pieces."
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Bend as a verb (intransitive):
To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
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Bend as a verb (transitive):
To force to submit.
Examples:
"They bent me to their will."
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Bend as a verb (intransitive):
To submit.
Examples:
"I am bending to my desire to eat junk food."
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Bend as a verb (transitive):
To apply to a task or purpose.
Examples:
"He bent the company's resources to gaining market share."
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Bend as a verb (intransitive):
To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
Examples:
"He bent to the goal of gaining market share."
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Bend as a verb (transitive):
To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
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Bend as a verb (transitive, nautical):
To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
Examples:
"Bend the sail to the yard."
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Bend as a verb (transitive, music):
To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
Examples:
"You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure."
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Bend as a verb (intransitive, nautical):
To swing the body when rowing.
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Bend as a noun:
A curve.
Examples:
"There's a sharp bend in the road ahead."
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Bend as a noun:
Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
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Bend as a 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.
Examples:
"A diver who stays deep for too long must ascend very slowly in order to prevent the bends."
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Bend as a noun (heraldiccharge):
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.
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Bend as a noun (obsolete):
Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
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Bend as a noun:
In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
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Bend as a noun (mining):
Hard, indurated clay; bind.
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Bend as a noun (nautical, in the plural):
The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
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Bend as a noun (nautical, in the plural):
The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
Examples:
"the midship bends"
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Bend as a noun (music):
A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.
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Curb as a noun (North America):
A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK)
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Curb as a noun:
A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
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Curb as a noun:
Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
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Curb as a noun:
A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by leverage advantage placing pressure on the poll via the crown piece of the bridle and chin groove via a curb chain.
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Curb as a noun (North America):
A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with an adjacent paved areas to permit vehicles to off-load or load passengers.
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Curb as a noun:
A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
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Curb as a verb (transitive):
To check, restrain or control.
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Curb as a verb (transitive):
To rein in.
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Curb as a verb (transitive):
To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
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Curb as a verb (transitive):
To force to "bite the curb" (hit the pavement curb); see curb stomp.
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Curb as a verb (transitive):
To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
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Curb as a verb (transitive):
To bend or curve.
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Curb as a verb (intransitive):
To crouch; to cringe.