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Definition of 'bent'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) bent
curved; crooked:
a bent back.

2.  bent
determined; set; resolved:
bent on succeeding.

3.  bent
Chiefly Brit.

4.  bent
corrupt.

5. (n.) bent
predilection; talent:
a bent for painting.

6.  bent
capacity of endurance.

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

8. (n.) bent
a stalk of bent grass.

Etymology: (1300–50; ME; OE beonet-, beonot-, c. OHG binuz rush)

Definition of 'bent'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) bent, set
a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
"the set of his mind was obvious"

2. (noun) bent, bent grass, bent-grass
grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens

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

4. (adj) bent, knack, hang
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"

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

6. (adj) bended, bent
used of the back and knees; stooped
"on bended knee"; "with bent (or bended) back"

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

Definition of 'bent'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. bent
the past tense and the past participle of "bend"

2. (adjective) bent
curved and not straight or flat
a badly bent bumper

Definition of 'bent'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) bent
a reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass

2. (noun) bent
a grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America

3. (noun) bent
any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor

4.  bent
of Bend

5.  bent
imp. & p. p. of Bend

6.  bent
changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever

7.  bent
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

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

9.  bent
a declivity or slope, as of a hill

10.  bent
a leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim

11.  bent
particular direction or tendency; flexion; course

12.  bent
a transverse frame of a framed structure

13.  bent
tension; force of acting; energy; impetus

Translation of 'bent'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a natural inclination a bent for mathematics.
Afrikaans: aanleg	Arabic: مَيْلٌ شَديد	Bulgarian: предразположение
Brazilian: inclinação	Czech: sklon, dispozice, nadání	German: die Neigung
Danish: anlæg; flair; talent	Greek: ταλέντο, έφεση	Spanish: inclinación
Estonian: kalduvus	Farsi: خمیدگی؛ زاویه گنگ	Finnish: lahjakkuus
French: aptitude	Hebrew: נְטִייָה	Hindi: झुकाव
Croatian: sklonost	Hungarian: hajlam	Indonesian: bakat
Icelandic: tilhneiging, hneigð	Italian: inclinazione, propensione	Japanese: 性向
Korean: 기호, 성향	Lithuanian: polinkis	Latvian: tieksme; nosliece
Malay: lengkung	Dutch: aanleg	Norwegian: hang, tilbøyelighet; anle
Polish: inklinacja	Persian: خمیدگی؛ زاویه گنگ	Pashto: کږ لیڅی لیندی
Portuguese: inclinação	Romanian: aptitudine	Russian: склонность
Slovak: sklon, nadanie	Slovenian: nadarjenost	Serbian: nadarenost
Swedish: anlag, håg, lust	Thai: ความโน้มเอียง	Turkish: eğilim, yönelim, istidat
Taiwanese: 愛好	Ukrainian: схильність; нахил	Urdu: رغبت ، میلان
Vietnamese: năng khiếu	Chinese: 爱好
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