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Definition of Bendable
1. Adjective. Capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking. "A pliant young tree"
Similar to: Flexible, Flexile
Derivative terms: Bend, Bend, Bendability, Pliability, Pliancy, Pliantness
Definition of Bendable
1. a. Capable of being bent.
Definition of Bendable
1. Adjective. Able to be bent or flexed or twisted without breaking. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bendable
1. bend [adj] - See also: bend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bendable
Literary usage of Bendable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Across the Great Saint Bernard: The Modes of Nature and the Manners of Man by Alfred Richard Sennett (1904)
"... the different colours of which white light is composed suffer refraction in
different degrees—that is to say, some are more bendable or ..."
2. A Zulu-English Dictionary with Notes on Pronunciation, a Revised Orthography by Alfred T. Bryant (1905)
"Thing of a bendable, pliant nature (not readily breaking ), as a fresh switch,
good steel blade, leaf of a tree, or piece of leather. ..."
3. Buckling of Bars, Plates, and Shells by Robert M. Jones (2006)
"... but is represented only with a deformable or bendable line. This bendable line
was first investigated by Leonhard Euler in the appendix De Curvis ..."
4. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1894)
"... there and made elastic that shocks and jars may be transmitted without harm
along the spine, and also that the spine ma}' be bendable in all directions. ..."
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