Definition of bent Bent

/bɛˈnt/ - [bent] - Be•n•t

We found 38 definitions of bent from 8 different sources.

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Noun

Plural: bents

bent - grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens
  bent grass, bent-grass
  grass German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927)
  agrostis, genus agrostis annual or perennial grasses cosmopolitan in northern hemisphere: bent grass (so named from `bent' meaning an area of unfenced grassland)
  agrostis canina, brown bent, dog bent, rhode island bent, velvet bent, velvet bent grass common grass with slender stems and narrow leaves
  agrostis nebulosa, cloud grass Spanish grass with light feathery panicles grown for dried bouquets
bent - a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way; "the set of his mind was obvious"
  set
  disposition, tendency, inclination your usual mood; "he has a happy disposition"
bent - 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"
  knack, hang
bent - an area of grassland unbounded by fences or hedges

Adjective

bent, benter, bentest

bent - of metal e.g.; "bent nails"; "a car with a crumpled front end"; "dented fenders"
  crumpled, dented
bent - fixed in your purpose; "bent on going to the theater"; "dead set against intervening"; "out to win every event"
  bent on, dead set, out to
bent - used of the back and knees; stooped; "on bended knee"; "with bent (or bended) back"
  bended
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • bent
    of Bend
  • bent
    imp. & p. p. of Bend.
  • bent (a. & p. p.)
    Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.
  • bent (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.
  • bent (v.)
    The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
  • bent (v.)
    A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
  • bent (v.)
    A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.
  • bent (v.)
    Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
  • bent (v.)
    A transverse frame of a framed structure.
  • bent (v.)
    Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
  • bent (n.)
    A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
  • bent (n.)
    A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.
  • bent (n.)
    Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • bent
    Natural skill (at sth); liking or inclination (for sth/doing sth).

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • bent
    bent, pa.t. and pa.p. of Bend
  • bent
    bent, 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. [See Bend.]
  • bent
    bent, 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. [A.S. beonet, found in place-names, as Beonetléah, Bentley; the history is obscure, but the word is doubtless Teut.; cf. Ger. binse.]

Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵

  • bent
    The trivial name of the Arundo arenaria, or coarse unprofitable grass growing on the sea-shore.

Proverbs DictionaryProverbs Dictionary 📗

  • bent
    As the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

Part of speech

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  • bent, verb, past participle of bend (infinitive).
  • bent, verb, past simple of bend (infinitive).
  • bent, noun, singular of bents.

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