The difference between Bend and Fold

When used as nouns, bend means a curve, whereas fold means an act of folding.

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 fold means to bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.

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  1. 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."

  2. Bend as a verb (intransitive):

    To become curved.

    Examples:

    "Look at the trees bending in the wind."

  3. Bend as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to change direction.

  4. Bend as a verb (intransitive):

    To change direction.

    Examples:

    "The road bends to the right"

  5. Bend as a verb (intransitive):

    To be inclined; to direct itself.

  6. Bend as a verb (intransitive, usually, with "down"):

    To stoop.

    Examples:

    "He bent down to pick up the pieces."

  7. Bend as a verb (intransitive):

    To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.

  8. Bend as a verb (transitive):

    To force to submit.

    Examples:

    "They bent me to their will."

  9. Bend as a verb (intransitive):

    To submit.

    Examples:

    "I am bending to my desire to eat junk food."

  10. Bend as a verb (transitive):

    To apply to a task or purpose.

    Examples:

    "He bent the company's resources to gaining market share."

  11. Bend as a verb (intransitive):

    To apply oneself to a task or purpose.

    Examples:

    "He bent to the goal of gaining market share."

  12. Bend as a verb (transitive):

    To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.

  13. 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."

  14. 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."

  15. Bend as a verb (intransitive, nautical):

    To swing the body when rowing.

  1. Bend as a noun:

    A curve.

    Examples:

    "There's a sharp bend in the road ahead."

  2. Bend as a noun:

    Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.

  3. 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."

  4. 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.

  5. Bend as a noun (obsolete):

    Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.

  6. Bend as a noun:

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

  7. Bend as a noun (mining):

    Hard, indurated clay; bind.

  8. 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.

  9. 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"

  10. Bend as a noun (music):

    A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.

  1. Fold as a verb (transitive):

    To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.

  2. Fold as a verb (transitive):

    To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.

    Examples:

    "If you fold the sheets, they'll fit more easily in the drawer."

  3. Fold as a verb (intransitive):

    To become folded; to form folds.

    Examples:

    "Cardboard doesn't fold very easily."

  4. Fold as a verb (intransitive, informal):

    To fall over; to be crushed.

    Examples:

    "The chair folded under his enormous weight."

  5. Fold as a verb (transitive):

    To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).

  6. Fold as a verb (intransitive):

    To give way on a point or in an argument.

  7. Fold as a verb (intransitive, poker):

    To withdraw from betting.

    Examples:

    "With no hearts in the river and no chance to hit his straight, he folded."

  8. Fold as a verb (intransitive, by extension):

    To withdraw or quit in general.

  9. Fold as a verb (transitive, cooking):

    To stir gently, with a folding action.

    Examples:

    "Fold the egg whites into the batter."

  10. Fold as a verb (intransitive, business):

    Of a company, to cease to trade.

    Examples:

    "The company folded after six quarters of negative growth."

  11. Fold as a verb:

    To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.

    Examples:

    "He folded his arms in defiance."

  12. Fold as a verb:

    To cover or wrap up; to conceal.

  1. Fold as a noun:

    An act of folding.

  2. Fold as a noun:

    A bend or crease.

  3. Fold as a noun:

    Any correct move in origami.

  4. Fold as a noun (newspapers):

    The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.

  5. Fold as a noun (by extension, web design):

    The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.

  6. Fold as a noun:

    That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.

  7. Fold as a noun (geology):

    The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.

  8. Fold as a noun (computing, programming):

    In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.

  1. Fold as a noun:

    A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.

  2. Fold as a noun:

    A group of sheep or goats.

  3. Fold as a noun (figuratively):

    Home, family.

  4. Fold as a noun (religion, Christian):

    A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.

    Examples:

    "'John, ''X, 16'': "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold."

  5. Fold as a noun:

    A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.

  6. Fold as a noun (obsolete):

    A boundary or limit.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Creech"

  1. Fold as a verb:

    To confine animals in a fold.

  1. Fold as a noun (dialectal, poetic, or, obsolete):

    The Earth; earth; land, country.

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