U-bend in the PONS Dictionary

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Most of us in our forties are bottoming out on the U-bend that is midlife.
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Waste flows from the house through a U-bend in the trap.
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It is, rather, a U-bend.
healthland.time.com
I figure the stomach/duodenum shape acts as a U-bend when you're lying on the right side, which stops gas coming up.
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However, as the lower-pitched instruments would be unacceptably long if straight, for ergonomic reasons, the larger instruments usually incorporate a U-bend at, or slightly above, the third-lowest tone hole.
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You seem to be somewhere in my U-bend system.
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The device is a large clay U-bend with air-inlets and vents at the top.
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Additional tubing connects the slide to the bell of the instrument through a neckpipe, and bell or back bow (U-bend).
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In cases where it dips and curves in a broad U-bend shape, something called a trough forms.
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The mouth was under the head, behind the proboscis, and pointed "backwards", so that the digestive tract formed a U-bend on its way towards the rear of the animal.
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