Bender
Encyclopedia

Places

  • Bender, Moldova
    Bender, Moldova
    Bender or Bendery, also known as Tighina is a city within the internationally recognized borders of Moldova under de facto control of the unrecognized Transnistria Republic since 1992...

    , also known as Bendery or Tighina
  • Bender, California
    Bender, California
    Bender is a former settlement in Fresno County, California. It was located on the Southern Pacific Railroad north of Lanare, at an elevation of 207 feet . Bender still appeared on maps as of 1927....

    , a former settlement in Fresno County, California
  • Bender Bayla District
    Bender Bayla District
    Bayla District is a district in the northeastern Bari region of Somalia. Its capital lies at Bayla....

    , a district of Bari, Somalia

Fiction

  • Airbender, Waterbender, Firebender, or Earthbender, in Avatar: The Last Airbender
    Avatar: The Last Airbender
    Avatar: The Last Airbender is an American animated television series that aired for three seasons on Nickelodeon from 2005 to 2008. The series was created and produced by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, who served as executive producers along with Aaron Ehasz...

  • Bender (Futurama), a character on animated television series Futurama
    Futurama
    Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the adventures of a late 20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J...

  • Elaine Bender, detective from the television series Blue Murder
  • Goodloe Bender, a character from the movie The Road to Wellville
    The Road to Wellville (film)
    The Road to Wellville is a 1994 American comedy-drama film adaptation of T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel of the same name, which tells the story of the doctor and clean-living advocate John Harvey Kellogg and his methods as employed at the Battle Creek Sanitarium at the start of the 20th Century...

    (based on a novel by T. C. Boyle)
  • John Bender (character), a character from the 1985 film The Breakfast Club played by Judd Nelson
  • Ostap Bender
    Ostap Bender
    Ostap Bender is a fictional con man and antihero who first appeared in the novel The Twelve Chairs written by Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov and released in January 1928.-Appearances:...

    , a fictional antihero by Ilf and Petrov
  • Sally Bender Hyde, film character played by Jane Fonda in Coming Home (1978)

Objects

  • B-Bender
    B-Bender
    B-Bender is a guitar accessory that enables a player to mechanically bend the B-string up a whole tone to C-sharp. There are several different designs, but all use levers or pulleys inside or outside the guitar body that are activated by a pull or push of the guitar neck, body, or bridge...

    , a guitar accessory that allows the player to change the pitch of one or more strings "on the fly"
  • Bender-Gestalt Test
    Bender-Gestalt Test
    The Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test, or simply the Bender-Gestalt test, is a psychological test first developed by child neuropsychiatrist Lauretta Bender. The test is used to evaluate "visual-motor maturity", to screen for developmental disorders, or to assess neurological function or brain...

    , a child psychological test used to screen for developmental disorders
  • Bender tent
    Bender tent
    A bender tent is a simple shelter. A bender is made using flexible branches or withies, such as those of hazel or willow. These are lodged in the ground, then bent and woven together to form a strong dome-shape. The dome is then covered using any tarpaulin available...

    , a type of makeshift shelter made using bended tree branches
  • Bending brake, a sheet metal bender machine
  • Mind Bender (Six Flags Over Georgia)
    Mind Bender (Six Flags Over Georgia)
    Mind Bender is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Over Georgia near Atlanta, Georgia. Billed as "the world's first triple-loop roller coaster" when it opened on March 31, 1978, Mind Bender maintains its popularity some three decades after it opened...

    , a steel roller coaster
  • Pipe and tube bender, a machine which bends tube, pipe and solid metals

Slang

  • An expression for a binge drinking
    Binge drinking
    Binge drinking or heavy episodic drinking is the modern epithet for drinking alcoholic beverages with the primary intention of becoming intoxicated by heavy consumption of alcohol over a short period of time. It is a kind of purposeful drinking style that is popular in several countries worldwide,...

     spree, referring to the act of bending over to vomit, or now used also for going on a legal or illegal binge drug spree, such as large use of alcohol, cocaine, or heroin over a long period of time
  • Former British slang for a sixpence
  • British derogatory slang for a male homosexual
    Homosexuality
    Homosexuality is romantic or sexual attraction or behavior between members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality refers to "an enduring pattern of or disposition to experience sexual, affectional, or romantic attractions" primarily or exclusively to people of the same...

    , from gender bender
    Gender bender
    Gender bender is an informal term used to refer to a person who actively transgresses, or "bends," expected gender roles. Gender bending is sometimes a form of social activism undertaken in response to assumptions or over-generalisations about genders...

  • A curveball
    Curveball
    The curveball is a type of pitch in baseball thrown with a characteristic grip and hand movement that imparts forward spin to the ball causing it to dive in a downward path as it approaches the plate. Its close relatives are the slider and the slurve. The "curve" of the ball varies from pitcher to...

    , a type of pitch thrown in baseball

Other

  • Bender (band)
    Bender (band)
    Bender was an American hard rock band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Bender had a local reach for some time before being signed onto TVT Records. The band has produced two albums, the first called "Joe", and later an album called "Jehovah's Hitlist"....

    , an American hard rock band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • FC Dinamo Bender
    FC Dinamo Bender
    FC Tighina is a Moldovan football club based in Bendery , Moldova. They play in the Divizia A, the second division in Moldovan football.-History:During its existence, the club has been known by the following names:...

    , a Moldovan football club based in Bendery (also known as Tighina or Bender)
  • Gardner Bender
    Gardner Bender
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    , a manufacturer of professional electrician's tools and supplies
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