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▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To become curved.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause to change direction.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To change direction.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To force to submit.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To submit.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
▸ verb:  (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
▸ verb:  (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
▸ noun:  A curve.
▸ noun:  Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
▸ 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.
▸ noun:  (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.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
▸ noun:  In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
▸ noun:  (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
▸ 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.
▸ noun:  (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
▸ noun:  (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.
▸ noun:  A ghost town and former railway community in central British Columbia, Canada. Named after a 90-degree curve in the railway line.
▸ noun:  A census-designated place in Tehama County, California, United States.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Maries County, Missouri, United States.
▸ noun:  A city, the county seat of Deschutes County, Oregon, United States.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Meade County, South Dakota, United States.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Lampasas County and San Saba County, Texas, United States.
▸ noun:  A surname.

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