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bent

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adjective

curved; crooked: a bent bow; a bent stick.

determined; set; resolved (usually followed by on): to be bent on buying a new car.

Chiefly British Slang.

morally crooked; corrupt.

stolen: bent merchandise.

homosexual.

noun

direction taken, as by one's interests; inclination: a bent for painting.

capacity of endurance: to work at the top of one's bent.

Civil Engineering. a transverse frame, as of a bridge or an aqueduct, designed to support either vertical or horizontal loads.

Archaic. bent state or form; curvature.

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Origin:
1525–35; orig. past participle of bend¹

Synonyms
1. bowed, flexed. 2. fixed. 4. tendency, propensity, proclivity, predilection, penchant, partiality, leaning, bias.

Example Sentences

Bent tracks will allow the rollers to pop out, making it difficult to raise or lower the door.

He bent down, seized upon it and lifted it to a flickering light with a cry of thankful joy.

It should be possible to tailor these so that sound waves are bent such that no echo results.

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Bent tracks will allow the rollers to pop out, making it difficult to raise or lower the door.

He bent down, seized upon it and lifted it to a flickering light with a cry of thankful joy.

It should be possible to tailor these so that sound waves are bent such that no echo results.

Intriguingly, many of the items seemed to have been bent or broken.

The sea horse's neck morphology is bent on capturing prey.

He smiled broadly and bent down face to face with me.

When figs are ripe, they detach easily when lifted and bent back toward the branch.

The bent pyramid likely had to have a new slope so that the base would not crack.

Dupuytren's contracture is a condition that keeps bent fingers from straightening.

They seem bent on getting their undergraduate years over as soon as possible.

He came off a practical man whose libertarian bent is almost entirely incidental.

Bent by millennia of interment, the skull had a deformed shape that made it tough to tag as totally human.

Those photons travel out toward a star and their path is bent a little.

While some states complied, others were bent on maintaining segregationism.

But winemakers aren't bent on causing rampant drunkenness.

The flat metal plates are stamped and bent to turn them into the rear saddle support.

He bent slowly over the bed with cartoon-wide eyes and full piano accompaniment.

And he still seems bent on repaying election favours to a rapacious old guard.

To obtain out-of-reach food, the crow repeatedly took a piece of straight wire and bent it to create a hook.

Now they travel a little further and get bent a little more.

Babangu points to a poacher's snare-a wire loop buried in the fallen leaves and attached to a bent sapling.

Pea arbor before peas: bamboo sticks bent and tied with twine.

Watermarks is a kind of science project with an artistic bent.

It continues with our heads bent over a disorganized pastiche of nonstandard sentences set in one enormous paragraph.

Space, for example, gets bent out of shape by any matter that is hanging about in it.

It turns out he was straightening a wheel that was bent on the obstacle.

They thought that a low hum might straighten out those bent cochlear hairs.

The internet has a huge security problem that's temporarily fixed with bent paperclips and some gaffer's tape.

The former is being displaced by the latter, a well-financed and shrewdly organized expedition bent on conquest.

They are philosopher kings bent on divining the meaning of the law.

Nearby, on a conical mound of mud, a flamingo bent toward its chick to offer a broth of fats and proteins.

Your thinking is generally good for science and your bent is curiosity.

Now biotech's dark lords face a digital-age army, people raised with a networked mindset, bent on taking over the territory.

Over time the rules have been bent by banks and national regulators.

He has bent wearily and scratched the dry, hardened earth, sprinkling a few maize or bean seeds and hoping for the best.

If you have a scientific bent get pleasure from thinking about the problems that remain unsolved.

The legs are bent keys, and the head was made from a dismantled rubber pad.

Executives at many banks may argue that their options are limited by shareholders bent on quarter-by-quarter outperformance.

The crops are flattened, the stalks bent but not broken.

Britain's judges appear to agree: they seem bent on curbing the freedom of the press to protect individuals' privacy.

She got into our story and bent over backwards trying to help us.

Now that they are hell bent on impeaching him anyway, he says, he is free to blast away.

To create the decorative surface of cloisonné, thin fillets of flattened wire are bent to form a pattern.

Swap dealers are particularly bent out of shape about the proposed rules.

As the straw becomes bent at the end, the chimpanzee breaks off the bent pieces until the tool is too short for further use.

The emergency has heightened anxiety about public health in a region where standards are bent by the local mafia.

When light is bent around a surface, for instance, the surface itself effectively becomes invisible.

The crops were flattened, the stalks bent but not broken.

One of the hunters was bent over and groaning, and he started to wave me over to him, pointing to his nose.

The disabling disorder causes patients' fingers to become fixed in a bent position.

The move to a sitting position with the legs bent in front.

These gymnastically agile dancers bent forward and.

He said that he bent the corporate policy out of a desire to give delinquent students every possible break.

Hunley have recovered a long-sought object: a bent gold coin the captain.

The other colored light frequencies are bent at angles in between these two.

As one put it, there was altogether too much display of the tops of heads as speakers bent over to read their prepared talks.

Hemlar were arrested for walking out in the fields with guns on their shoulder, apparently bent on a hunting excursion.

In particular, he wants collaboration with opposition parties mostly bent on ousting him.

But earwigs, yeah, are not bent on boring through your cerebellum.

So the rules get bent a little bit and there is more wiggle room.

It's hard to imagine a slope so steep that a bent elbow touches the side of the hill if a skier stands sideways.

Bent feelings over widely distributed email is not an instructors' problem.

Their main revelation is that he bent over backwards to make a deal.

We seem to be bent on destroying every single resource and unable to talk our way out of doing.

But they predict that individuals with a speculative bent will flock to the new.

The union has bent over and given back raises for the next couple years.

Strangelove, scientists are portrayed as evil geniuses unrestrained by ethics and usually bent on world domination.

Instead, paleontologists and evolutionary biologists are simply zealots bent on destroying religion.

It has a boomerang-shaped base and a long, bent stalk which attaches to an iPad case by way of an articulating joint.

In front of me sat another young man, bent over his laptop.

It was thought that obstructions in the bent riser might be slowing the flow of.

We repeatedly sat on, dropped and haphazardly tossed the frames without seeing them get bent out of shape.

If anything comes up you can always tell them you have proof you bent over backwards for the student.

Some languages, even robust ones, face an obvious threat in the shape of a political power bent on imposing a majority tongue.

Slide your right leg back two or three feet and lean forward onto your left leg, knee bent.

Within the region where the light is bent from our perspective, it still appears straight to an observer within it.

Not bad-----deflates a lot of professors bent on being elite-r than carpenters are.

Germany's bent for engineering fits with the demands of its newer customers.

Only humans bent on exploration, and with the right ship to get here, have reason to visit.

They will get squished or bent after a few explosions, so you'll need a few of them.

It is, however, dominated by people who have an intellectual bent and who value the truth.

The party bent with the wind by abandoning central planning.

Otherwise, please keep your commentary within a somewhat scientific bent.

The card-reader was cannibalized for its sprung contacts, with all but two of these bent out of the way.

Informal markets sprouted, as people either bent the law or defied it.

In real life, he was also a pampered aristocrat bent on retaining his elitist standing.

Trilobot detects obstacles using metal wires that conduct a current when they are bent out of shape by an object in its path.

Either way, you'll have to cross your fingers and hope you don't get to the destination with a bent fork or buckled wheel.

We saw that a telephone pole had been bent over alongside our truck.

Wrist strain is reduced when your wrists are straight, not bent backwards.

Your knees are bent as though you were about to spring from a high-dive.

Its distinctively small ears bent flat against its skull, a rare and endangered albino fishing cat.

Still, despite the benefits, boxed wine may still be a tough pill to swallow for many wine connoisseurs still bent on tradition.

Hot coals glowed in a dark interior, where a craftsman was bent over an anvil hammering silver.

Now they've got an entire industry bent over the barrel and can screw everyone coming and going.

Bryan's team headed into the wilderness bent on collecting scientific data and conducting salmon conservation research.

Only to a ideologue hell bent on ignoring the evidence.

But she had noticed, and recorded, some bent branches flattened together in a nearby tree: a chimp nest.

Water's hydrogen atoms, bent on the same side of the water molecule, are positively charged.

Missouri, who bent his waffles into cone shapes and gave them to an ice cream vendor to use when he ran out of ice cream cups.

If you are bent on the journey, you should resign and make room for a man who is satisfied with his job.

After four hours, they bent their course south and upward to aim at a saddle between two of the highest of these summits.

Rainbows bent up and over the green gunpowder mountains and then dove deep into the blue beer sea.

Bent at the waist, wearing headscarves and long dresses, they whisk brooms over the sand/dirt ground along the edge of the sea.

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noun

bent grass.

a stalk of bent grass.

Scot., North England. (formerly) any stiff grass or sedge.

British Dialect. a moor; heath; tract of uncultivated, grassy land, used as a pasture or hunting preserve.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English; earlier benet-, bunet- (in compounds), Old English beonet-, beonot- (in place names); cognate with Old High German binuz (compare German Binse) rush

verb (used with object)

to force (an object, especially a long or thin one) from a straight form into a curved or angular one, or from a curved or angular form into some different form: to bend an iron rod into a hoop.

to direct or turn in a particular direction: to bend one's energies to the task.

to cause to submit or yield: to bend someone to one's will.

to modify or relax (restrictions, regulations, etc.) temporarily or in certain circumstances: to bend the rules.

to incline mentally (usually followed by to or toward): bending his thoughts back toward his childhood.

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to pull back the string of (a bow or the like) in preparation for shooting.

Nautical. to fasten.

Archaic. to strain or brace tensely (often followed by up).

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verb (used without object)

to become curved, crooked, or bent: a bow that bends easily.

10.

to assume a bent posture; stoop (often followed by over): to bend as one walks; to bend over and pick up something.

11.

to turn or incline in a particular direction; be directed: The road bent toward the south.

12.

to yield or submit; give in.

13.

to bow in submission or reverence: bending to one's monarch.

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14.

to direct one's energies: We bent to our work as the bell sounded.

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noun

15.

the act of bending.

16.

something that bends; curve; crook: a bend in the road; a bend in the curtain rod.

17.

Nautical. any of various loops or knots for joining the ends of two ropes or the like, or for joining the end of a rope or the like to some other object.

18.

bends, Nautical.

thick planking immediately below the waterways of a wooden vessel.

the wales of a vessel.

19.

the bends, aeroembolism (def. 2).

Idioms

20.

around/round the bend, Slang. insane; crazy: These interruptions will send me round the bend!

21.

bend/lean/fall over backward, to exert oneself to the utmost; make a serious effort: They bent over backward to make sure their guests were comfortable.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English benden (v.) Old English bendan to bind, bend (a bow); cognate with Middle High German benden, Old Norse benda; akin to Old Norse band band. See band³

Related forms

bend·a·ble, adjective

non·bend·ing, adjective

re·bend·a·ble, adjective

Synonyms
1. curve, crook, flex, bow. 3. mold, subdue, influence. 10. Bend, bow, stoop imply taking a bent posture. Bend and bow are used of the head and upper body; stoop is used of the body only.

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World English Dictionary

bent¹ (bɛnt)

—*adj*
1.	not straight; curved
2.	(foll by on) fixed (on a course of action); resolved (to); determined (to)
3.	slang
	a. dishonest; corrupt
	b. (of goods) stolen
	c. crazy; mad
	d. offensive (Brit) homosexual

—n
4.	personal inclination, propensity, or aptitude
5.	capacity of endurance (esp in the phrase to the top of one's bent)
6.	civil engineering a framework placed across a structure to stiffen it

bent² (bɛnt)

—n
1.	short for bent grass
2.	a stalk of bent grass
3.	archaic any stiff grass or sedge
4.	dialect (Scot), (Northern English) heath or moorland

[Old English bionot; related to Old Saxon binet, Old High German binuz rush]

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Word Origin & History

bend

O.E. bendan "to confine with a string," causative of bindan "to bind," from P.Gmc. base *band- "string, band" (cf. O.N. benda "to join, strain, strive, bend"), from PIE base *bhendh- (cf. Goth. bindan, O.H.G. bintan, Skt. badhnati "binds," Lith. bendras "partner;" O.Pers. bandaka- "subject"). Modern

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sense (early 14c.) is via notion of bending a bow to string it. Cognate with band, bind, and bond. The noun meaning "thing of bent shape" is from c.1600. The bends "decompression pain" first attested 1894.

bent

"mental inclination," 1570s, from the adj., "not straight" (late 14c.), originally pp. of bend. The verb meaning "directed in a course" is from 1690s. Phrase bent out of shape "extremely upset" is 1960s Air Force and college student slang.

bent

"stiff grass," O.E. beonet, from W.Gmc. *binut- "rush, marsh grass" (cf. Ger. binse "rush, reed"), of unknown origin. An obsolete word, but surviving in place names (cf. Bentley, from O.E. Beonet-leah).

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

bend (běnd)
v. bent (běnt), bend·ing, bends
To incline the body; stoop.

Slang Dictionary

bent definition

mod.
alcohol or drug intoxicated. : I've never seen two guys so bent.
mod.
dishonest; crooked. : I'm afraid that Paul is a little bent. He cheats on his taxes.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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