bent
IPA: bˈɛnt
noun
- An inclination or talent.
- A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
- The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
- A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
- Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
- (carpentry) A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.
- Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
- Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
- Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
- Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
- A grassy area, grassland.
- The old dried stalks of grasses.
- A surname
adjective
- (Of something that is usually straight) Folded, dented.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK) Corrupt, dishonest.
- (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly UK) Homosexual.
- Determined or insistent.
- (Of a person) leading a life of crime.
- (slang, soccer) Inaccurately aimed.
- (colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends.
- (slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.
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Examples of "bent" in Sentences
- "Yes, I'm bent -- _bent_ like your name -- to speak my mind!"
- Use a safety pin bent to proper height, and use a dozen or so wraps of mono line to secure it or a pair of zip ties.
- To Tories of a Eurosceptic bent, which is to say nearly all of them these days, his other demonstration of boldness was to say no to a new European treaty.
- Voorkomen kan bijna niet, maar als jij er snel bij bent, is het voor hackers minder interessant om accounts te hacken omdat ze er minder lang voordeel van hebben.
- Nevertheless, his bent is above all realistic, if we eliminate from that label all the customary flavour of social tendency, commonplace philosophy, or gross striving for effect.
- The book is a wild sci-fi ride: human clones, recorded human memories, a villain bent on global chaos, lots automatic gunfire, presidential assassinations ... it's an action-packed hoot.
- The story -- a modern-day tale about human cloning, memory recording, government conspiracies and a villain bent on global chaos -- captured the imagination of tens of thousands of listeners.
- They post authoritatively on topics like media coverage of health issues and the use and abuse of statistics, and happily their quantitative bent is accompanied by a joy in language, particularly of the so-bad-it's-good variety.
- Originally conceived as a bald villain bent on taking over the world, Superman was reworked by creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster into an indomitable, supremely powerful super hero who had the power to bend steel in his bare hands, leap one-eighth of a mile, and with skin impenetrable by anything less than an exploding shell.
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