Bent

[bent] or [bɛnt]

Definition

(noun.) a special way of doing something; 'he had a bent for it'; 'he had a special knack for getting into trouble'; 'he couldn't get the hang of it'.

(noun.) a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way; 'the set of his mind was obvious'.

(noun.) an area of grassland unbounded by fences or hedges.

(noun.) grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens.

(adj.) of metal e.g.; 'bent nails'; 'a car with a crumpled front end'; 'dented fenders' .

(adj.) fixed in your purpose; 'bent on going to the theater'; 'dead set against intervening'; 'out to win every event' .

Checker: Uriah--From WordNet

Definition

(-) of Bend

(-) imp. & p. p. of Bend.

(a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.

(a. & p. p.) Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.

(v.) The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.

(v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill.

(v.) A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.

(v.) Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.

(v.) A transverse frame of a framed structure.

(v.) Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.

(n.) A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.

(n.) A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.

(n.) Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.

Editor: Nita

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Disposition, inclination, tendency, turn, PENCHANT, leaning, bias, propensity, proclivity, predisposition, predilection, partiality, liking, fondness, proneness, appetency.

a. Crooked, hooked, bowed, curved, aduncous, ARCUATE, INCURVATE.

Checked by Aida

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Inclination, angle, direction, bias, determination, disposition, intention,prepossession, propensity, predilection, turn, leaning

ANT:Indisposition, aversion

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Definition

n. any stiff or wiry grass: the old dried stalks of grasses: a special genus (Agrostis) containing about sixty species of grasses all slender and delicate in appearance and some useful as pasture-grasses and for hay: a place covered with such a heath: a hillside.—Often Bent′-grass.—Ben′net is a variant a name applied to the wild barley-grass.—adj. Bent′y.—To take to the bent (Scot.) to fly to the moors to escape from some danger by flight.

n. leaning or bias: tendency: intention: natural inclination of the mind towards anything: the condition of being bent curved form: (rare) slope or declivity: (Shak.) a cast as of the eye: the extent to which a bow may be bent—degree of tension capacity of endurance as in the phrase 'to the top of one's bent' = to the full measure of one's inclination.

pa.t. and pa.p. of Bend.

Checker: Micawber