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Definition of bender in English: bendernoun ˈbɛndəˈbɛndər 1An object or person that bends something. 弯曲物体的人（或工具，机器） Example sentencesExamples - Unfortunately, we are perceived as focusing mostly on debunking the silly stuff like UFOs, spoon benders, and psychic spiritualists.
- The exhaust pipes are apparently a fine example of the pipe bender's art.
- We have good wire benders and thus headpieces are always done here, but some things come from overseas.
- The university's Sunday afternoon sessions are where some of the area's most buffed and ruthless body benders tear off their moves.
- Spoon bender Uri hit the headlines this weekend when it was revealed that his good friend, the pop star Michael Jackson, is to be best man at his wedding.
- We've got steel, the raw material, we've got the forgers, we've got the casters, the benders, the twisters and the fabricators.
- Rather than being an introduction to ghosts and spoon benders, it turned out to be a lesson for me in the value of testing ideas and critical thinking.
- Thus, field soldiers and civilian metal and electron benders were in the driver's seat - they could literally build their own division to meet General Meyer's concept and his timelines.
- Remember that what we are talking about here is not side-show illusionist trickery or spoon benders.
- Working with English metal benders, the professor of experimental physics at Birkbeck College, University of London, has devised extensive methods of guarding against conscious or unconscious fraud.
- We are blessed with the presence of great actors and entertainers, great writers, artists, filmmakers, panmen, wire benders and even photographers.
- There are department-store tents of amateur watercolourists, amateur kiddie crocheters, flower dryers, mud turners, cancerous candle makers, rag-doll knotters and metal benders.
2informal A wild drinking spree. 饮酒狂欢 he went off on a self-destructive bender Example sentencesExamples - Victory will not be followed by the drinking benders of old, though.
- Well, how many of those children were sent down the path of a life of crime by fathers abusing them while on alcoholic benders?
- ‘Ally, Rock's an alcoholic and his benders were getting way too out of hand,’ Leonard explained softly.
- It's the first night of the annual Mardi Gras, a three-day bender that, according to the head of the local Oxfam team, acts ‘as a kind of therapy, a release’ for the people of one of the poorest countries in the world.
- However, I had been on a hard drinking bender for the whole weekend.
- An accomplished master of the month-long bender, his genteel appearance belies his taste for corn liquor and high proof moonshine.
- He went on long benders, landed in detox wards, returned to his studio and soon fell off the wagon again.
- They'd go up to Charleston on these two- and three-day benders when they'd get paid.
- It was a great vacation, but I was thoroughly exhausted and hungover from the five-day bender that I've come to associate with people's nuptials.
- A lost weekend is a keenly social event that largely plays out in bars, so you won't need to lay in the kind of alcohol stores you'd need for a bender.
- I guess this gives me a shoddy excuse to embark on a weeklong bender of hard drinking, dire self-examination and monstrous self-pity.
- She was hardly ever photographed without a drink in her hand, and her benders were infamous.
- This could be because of a weekend drinking bender, or it's more likely because the story is tremendously forgettable.
- That's why you went on such a bender the other night.
- At one point a couple of years ago, he says, he thought about ending it all, going out after one last amazing, self-destructive bender.
- Dad had a drink problem when we were kids and would go on benders that could last a few days so we were left with no money to buy food.
- He was always witty when waking up from a bender.
- He also remembered the dark and lonely nights he and his mother spent waiting for Herb to return from one of his frequent three-day benders.
- He said he had been on a bender all day and that he should not be drinking and driving.
3British offensive, informal A male homosexual. 〈冒犯〉同性恋者 4British A shelter made by covering a framework of bent branches with canvas or tarpaulin. 〈英〉（用折弯的树枝和帆布或防水雨布搭成的）树枝雨篷 we lived underneath this bender we built in the woods Example sentencesExamples - The 7 boys built and slept in a 20 foot high tepee, and the 3 girls made a bender.
- I slept in the bender we had erected for work parties after we had purchased the land in December.
- I can honestly say I've never slept in a bender, and I never intend to.
- If you've never slept in a bender, you MUST.
OriginLate 15th century (denoting instruments such as pliers, for bending things): from bend1 + -er1. Rhymesaddenda, agenda, amender, ascender, attender, blender, Brenda, contender, corrigenda, descender, engender, extender, fazenda, fender, gender, Glenda, Gwenda, hacienda, Länder, lender, mender, offender, pudenda, recommender, referenda, render, sender, slender, spender, splendour (US splendor), surrender, suspender, tender, Venda, weekender, Wenda Definition of bender in US English: bendernounˈbendərˈbɛndər informal 1usually in combination An object or person that bends something else. 弯曲物体的人（或工具，机器） （损失轻微的）汽车碰撞小事故。 Example sentencesExamples - We are blessed with the presence of great actors and entertainers, great writers, artists, filmmakers, panmen, wire benders and even photographers.
- Rather than being an introduction to ghosts and spoon benders, it turned out to be a lesson for me in the value of testing ideas and critical thinking.
- We have good wire benders and thus headpieces are always done here, but some things come from overseas.
- The exhaust pipes are apparently a fine example of the pipe bender's art.
- Working with English metal benders, the professor of experimental physics at Birkbeck College, University of London, has devised extensive methods of guarding against conscious or unconscious fraud.
- Spoon bender Uri hit the headlines this weekend when it was revealed that his good friend, the pop star Michael Jackson, is to be best man at his wedding.
- There are department-store tents of amateur watercolourists, amateur kiddie crocheters, flower dryers, mud turners, cancerous candle makers, rag-doll knotters and metal benders.
- The university's Sunday afternoon sessions are where some of the area's most buffed and ruthless body benders tear off their moves.
- We've got steel, the raw material, we've got the forgers, we've got the casters, the benders, the twisters and the fabricators.
- Remember that what we are talking about here is not side-show illusionist trickery or spoon benders.
- Unfortunately, we are perceived as focusing mostly on debunking the silly stuff like UFOs, spoon benders, and psychic spiritualists.
- Thus, field soldiers and civilian metal and electron benders were in the driver's seat - they could literally build their own division to meet General Meyer's concept and his timelines.
2A wild drinking spree. 饮酒狂欢 Example sentencesExamples - However, I had been on a hard drinking bender for the whole weekend.
- He went on long benders, landed in detox wards, returned to his studio and soon fell off the wagon again.
- It was a great vacation, but I was thoroughly exhausted and hungover from the five-day bender that I've come to associate with people's nuptials.
- He said he had been on a bender all day and that he should not be drinking and driving.
- She was hardly ever photographed without a drink in her hand, and her benders were infamous.
- That's why you went on such a bender the other night.
- He also remembered the dark and lonely nights he and his mother spent waiting for Herb to return from one of his frequent three-day benders.
- It's the first night of the annual Mardi Gras, a three-day bender that, according to the head of the local Oxfam team, acts ‘as a kind of therapy, a release’ for the people of one of the poorest countries in the world.
- I guess this gives me a shoddy excuse to embark on a weeklong bender of hard drinking, dire self-examination and monstrous self-pity.
- He was always witty when waking up from a bender.
- This could be because of a weekend drinking bender, or it's more likely because the story is tremendously forgettable.
- ‘Ally, Rock's an alcoholic and his benders were getting way too out of hand,’ Leonard explained softly.
- Well, how many of those children were sent down the path of a life of crime by fathers abusing them while on alcoholic benders?
- Victory will not be followed by the drinking benders of old, though.
- Dad had a drink problem when we were kids and would go on benders that could last a few days so we were left with no money to buy food.
- A lost weekend is a keenly social event that largely plays out in bars, so you won't need to lay in the kind of alcohol stores you'd need for a bender.
- At one point a couple of years ago, he says, he thought about ending it all, going out after one last amazing, self-destructive bender.
- They'd go up to Charleston on these two- and three-day benders when they'd get paid.
- An accomplished master of the month-long bender, his genteel appearance belies his taste for corn liquor and high proof moonshine.
OriginLate 15th century (denoting instruments such as pliers, for bending things): from bend + -er. |