Bend means to make something change its shape from straight to curved or to make someone submit. A bend is a curve or a turn. The word bend has several other senses as a verb and a noun. If you bend something that is straight, you are forcing it into a curve or an angle.

Based on a true story documented by physician Oliver Sacks (“Awakenings”), much of “At First Sight” is the creakily familiar love story about mismatched paramours. Tense New York architect Amy (Mira Sorvino) meets mellow upstate masseur Virgil (Val Kilmer) and the two opposites – gasp!

A Bend in the Road is the fifth novel by the American author Nicholas Sparks, who also wrote the romance love novels A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, and The Rescue. It was published in 2001. The story was inspired by Sparks’s brother-in-law, Bob.

As you leave a bend, check your mirrors and gently accelerate to a speed that is appropriate for the road and traffic conditions. Positioning your car too close to the left will restrict your view. Taking a bend becomes even trickier when the road surface is wet. In the wet your tyres will have less grip with the road.

A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse.

Oxbow lake, small lake located in an abandoned meander loop of a river channel. It is generally formed as a river cuts through a meander neck to shorten its course, causes the old channel to be rapidly blocked off, and then migrates away from the lake.

The current is faster at a place where the bottom of a river is steep. A place where water flows fast in a river is where the width is narrow and the bottom steep. An example of such a river would be in a gorge of the upper reaches. Usually the speed of river water is fastest in the upper reaches.

What three factors affect how fast a river flows and how much sediment it can erode? A river’s slope, volume of flow, and the shape of its streambed.

Gravel and sand is dragged, rolled and bounced along the bottom of the river. This is called the bed load. Finer sand and mud that is supported by the water column is called the suspended load. Some minerals are dissolved in the water. These minerals form the river’s solution load.

Reasons for streamflow change. Climate change and human activities are the two dominant driving factors for streamflow change. Climate change usually influences streamflow change periodically and long lastingly, while human activities impact on discharge variation suddenly and directionally.

Low flow is the “flow of water in a stream during prolonged dry weather,” according to the World Meteorological Organization. Many states use design flow statistics such as the 7Q10 (the lowest 7-day average flow that occurs on average once every 10 years) to define low flow for setting permit discharge limits.

Since 1992, a maximum of 2.5 GPM is the federally mandated flow rate for new shower heads. This means no more than 2.5 gallons of water should flow out each minute.

All new models are “low-flow” toilets — by law they can use no more than 1.6 gallons of water per flush. Prior to 1994, most toilets on the market used at least 3.5 gallons, or about 20 gallons of water per person per day — the most water used by any household appliance.

Unfortunately, there is no firm definition of low-flow, but it’s generally accepted that anything using 1.5 gallons per minute (gpm) or less is considered “ultra low flow,” while anything using 2.5 gallons per minute to 1.5 gallons per minute is considered “low flow.” Nowadays, thanks to standards set by the government …

Standards are rigorous. A low-flow sink faucet must not exceed a maximum of 1.5 GPM.

You can increase the faucet flow rate by replacing the faucet aerator with a higher GPM model in most cases. But, before going out and purchasing a new one, it helps to find out if the aerator is the real problem. To check this remove the aerator completely and open the faucet to see if the flow is good.

2.1 gallons

The average American household needs 100 to 120 gallons per person per day, and a flow rate of about 6 to 12 gallons per minute. This requirement may be higher if it serves a home housing a large family or there are large water demands.

1900 PSI

Answer: If you already have a pressure washer that you think is too powerful to be safe for your car, say a pressure washer with 3000 PSI or more, you can still use it safely but with the correct nozzle. A 15, 20 or 40-degree nozzle will spread out the water evenly and not put pressure on a specific point on your car.