Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definitions: Bender |
BenderNoun1. A tool for bending; "he used pliers as a bender". 2. Revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party. 3. A baseball thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approach the batter. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bender" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1780. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Bender Sixpence. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Metallurgy | The portion of the dies used for forming the metal so that the longitudinal axis of the metal lies in two or more planes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Forms ring blank into circular shape, using ring mandrel and rawhide mallet: Files ends of ring blank smooth and square and places blank in ring bending device. Pulls lever to bend blank into semicircle. Places blank on mandrel and hammers blank into circular shape, using rawhide mallet. Slides ring over sizing (measuring) mandrel to verify conformity to specifications. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: BenderSynonyms: booze-up (n), breaking ball (n), carousal (n), carouse (n), curve (n), curve ball (n), toot (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Noun: drunkenness; Adjective: intemperance; drinking; Verb: inebriety, inebriation; ebriety, ebriosity; insobriety; intoxication; temulency, bibacity, wine bibbing; comtation, potation; deep potations, bacchanals, bacchanalia, libations; bender. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bender |
| Specialty definitions using "bender": bender, hand, BENDER, MACHINE, BIT BENDER, BOX BENDER ♦ EXTRUSION BENDER ♦ FORMER, HAND ♦ GLASS BENDER, glass-tube bender ♦ HOOP BENDER, TANK ♦ Mazeppa ♦ Nail Bender ♦ spring bender ♦ TUBE BENDER, BRASS-WIND INSTRUMENTS, TUBE BENDER, HAND I, TUBE BENDER, HAND II ♦ WIRE BENDER. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Gil, none of the women were invited to the paintball game, and we'd like to know why. (Levy, Eugene (I)@Gil Bender): Well, darn it, so would I! (Greg the Bunny; writing credit: Francesco Barilli) How often do you guys go on a bender like this? (Air America; writing credit: John Eskow) Yes! It's Bender Bending Rodriguez! (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) (Levy, Eugene (I)@Gil Bender): I'm not sure that's true Uh, Doris, would you find out who organized the paintball game and why the ladies weren't invited? (Greg the Bunny; writing credit: Michel Alexandre) It isn't every day a man wakes up to discover he's a screaming bender with no more right to live on God's clean Earth than a weasel. (Blackadder II; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Taco Bender (2003) Kalabaliken i Bender (1983) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Consumer Goods | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Chief Bender.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Chief Bender.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Chief Bender.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Chas. Bender.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Chief Bender.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Chief Bender.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Albert (Chief) Bender.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Chief Bender.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Bender" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Bender" is used about 36 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 77.78% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Noun (proper) | 19.44% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.78% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 36 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bender" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bender | Last name | 14,000 | 836 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "bender": go on a bender. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bender": Bender-Gestalt Test. | |
Ending with "bender": fender-bender, gender-bender, genre-bender, law-bender, mind-bender, string-bender. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
tubing bender | 309 | hydraulic pipe bender | 23 |
pipe bender | 289 | fender bender international | 22 |
tube bender | 255 | exhaust pipe bender | 22 |
bender | 232 | rebar bender | 19 |
mind bender | 106 | the halo bender | 19 |
gender bender | 80 | mandrel tube bender | 19 |
matthew bender | 65 | mandrel tubing bender | 18 |
gardner bender | 64 | chris bender | 18 |
mandrel bender | 48 | bender landing | 17 |
metal bender | 45 | brain bender | 16 |
bender and futurama | 44 | mandrel pipe bender | 16 |
bender realty | 40 | john bender | 16 |
hossfeld bender | 36 | scroll bender | 16 |
bender jackie | 35 | bender gestalt test | 15 |
conduit bender | 35 | bender gestalt | 14 |
schmidt bender | 32 | bender mathew | 14 |
bender board | 27 | pine bender | 14 |
bender josh | 27 | wire bender | 13 |
fender bender | 26 | manual pipe bender | 13 |
sheet metal bender | 24 | jonathan bender | 13 |
square tubing bender | 13 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bender"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | njeri i kërrusur, gërmuq (bent, crooked). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مرح صاخب (bat, binge, boose, booze, hilarity, razzle-dazzle, rejoicing, revelry, rip roaring), ست بنسات. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | гуляй (bat, bend, binge, blowout, bout, bum, carouse, drinking bout, feed, jamboree, junket, racket, randan, rant, rattle, razzle, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, rouse, soak, spree, tear, wassail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 弯机. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tah (draught, draw, drawing, feature, haul, heave, move, stroke, thrust), pitka (blind, carousal, high jinks, spree, swill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | bukkeprofil (setter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | buigvorm (bending jig, bending mould, form, former, setter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | taivutuskaiverrus (setter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | machine couder, gravure de cambrage, forme de renvoi, coudeuse, cintreuse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sauferei (binge, blind, boozing, boozy party, drunk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κλίνων (bent, tipper), καμπτικό αποτύπωμα (setter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tivornya (bat, batter, binge, bum, bummer, carousal, flare-up, hellbender, high jinks, orgy, revelry), muri (bang, bean-feast, beano, bingo, blow-out, do, jollification, junketing, spree), ivászat (bend, boose, booze, bouse, carousal, guzzle, heavy drinking, reels, soak, swill, toot), hatpennys (fiddler, kick), hajlítóprés, hajlítógép, hajlítóberendezés, hajlító munkás, feszítőizom. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | piegatrice (brake, brake press). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ベンゼン (bench, Benson, benzene ring, benzole, venderization, vendor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ベンダ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 벤". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lhoobeyder, er y scooyr (binge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enderbay bebida (beverage, drink, drinking, libel, lush, potation, quencher, refreshment, tap), pessoa que dobra ou entorta, máquina de curvar, dobrador (folder, setter, winder). (various references) клещи (claw, jaw, nippers, pincer, pincers, pliers, tongs, vice, vise). (various references) terevenka (binge, fling, fuddle, revel, revelry). (various references) máquina acodadora, juerga (bat, binge, blast, good time, jamboree, joke, joy, loose, spree, travel, walk, whoopee), grabado para curvar (setter). (various references) våt fest. (various references) เกย์ (bum bandit, gay, queer), ช่วงของการ"ื่มอัลกอฮอล์หรือกินยามาก, การ"ื่มฉลองสุ"เหวี่ยง. (various references) cümbüş (bash, binge, blast, blow out, booze, booze-up, burst up, bust, Buster, carousal, festivity, high jinks, jamboree, jollification, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, metal mandolin, racket, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, riot, saturnalia, spree), alem (bat, binge, blast, blind, blow out, booze, booze-up, burst up, bust, Buster, carousal, class of beings, condition, creation, entertainment, jollification, junket, kingdom, nature, orgy, party, potation, potations, razzle-dazzle, realm, revel, revelry, riot, rollicking time, spree, state, universe, whoopee, world). (various references) шестипенсовик (sixpence, sixpenny, tanner), згорблена людина, п'яниця (barley-cap, bibber, boozer, dram-drinker, drunkard, guzzler, inebriate, roisterer, soaker, tippler, toper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bender": benders. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bender": hellbender. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bender": hellbenders. (additional references) | |
| |
"Bender" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abendberg, Bander, Bandor, Beader, Bedern, Bednarz, Bednorg, beende, Behdet, beiner, Bencey, benda, bende, bendee, benden, bendex, Bendor, Bendra, Bendrey, benger, benkert, Benndorf, benner, benser, bente, Benzer, binda, Bodnar, bondir, Bondor, Bundee, Bunder, Ebner, zender. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bender" (pronounced be"nder) |
| 4 | -e" n d er | blender, contender, defender, Ender, engender, Fender, gender, lender, offender, pretender, render, sender, slender, Spender, splendor, surrender, suspender, tender, vendor. |
| 3 | -n d er | Alexander, asunder, attainder, auslander, Bander, bartender, binder, blander, blinder, blonder, blunder, bookbinder, bounder, brander, bystander, calamander, calendar, candor, cinder, cofounder, commander, Condor, coriander, cylinder, extender, finder, flounder, fonder, founder, gander, gerrymander, grander, grinder, highlander, hinder, islander, kinder, Lander, launder, lavender, mainlander, meander, minder, oleander, pander, pathfinder, Pinder, plunder, ponder, pounder, rejoinder, remainder, reminder, responder, rounder, salamander, sander, Sidewinder, slander, sounder, squander, Stander, sunder, thunder, tinder, transponder, under, viewfinder, wander, weekender, winder, wonder, yonder, Zander. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-n-r" | |
-1 letter: brede, breed, ender. | |
-2 letters: been, beer, bend, bene, bred, bree, bren, deer, dene, dere, dree, erne, need, nerd, rede, reed, rend. | |
-3 letters: bed, bee, ben, deb, dee, den, end, ere, ern, neb, nee, reb, red, ree. | |
-4 letters: be, de, ed, en, er, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-n-r" | |
+1 letter: benders, blender, deboner, enrobed, inbreed, prebend, reblend, redbone. | |
+2 letters: bannered, bantered, bedarken, bedrench, befriend, beringed, blenders, brazened, breeding, bunkered, burdened, burdener, deboners, debunker, inbreeds, interbed, linebred, numbered, prebends, rebidden, reblends, redbones, rendible, unbeared. | |
+3 letters: banderole, bandoleer, bartended, bartender, bedarkens, bedridden, befriends, befringed, begroaned, bethorned, binderies, blarneyed, blinkered, blundered, blunderer, breadline, breedings, broadened, burdeners, burgeoned, burthened, debarment, debenture, debunkers, embrowned, endurable, gaberdine, interbeds, interbred, membraned, prebendal, reblended, rebounded, rebounder, unbriefed, underbred. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 6E 64 65 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . -. -.. . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e n d e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 006E 0064 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)367180707184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Names: Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
