BENT
\bˈɛnt], \bˈɛnt], \b_ˈɛ_n_t]\
Definitions of BENT
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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imp. & p. p. of Bend.
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Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.
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The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
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A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
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A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.
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Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
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A transverse frame of a framed structure.
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Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
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A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
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A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.
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Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.
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The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
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A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
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A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.
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Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
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A transverse frame of a framed structure.
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Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
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A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
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A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.
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Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
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imp. & p. p. of Bend.
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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.
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Of bend.
By Noah Webster.
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Of bend.
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Curved; crooked; strongly inclined; determined.
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A turn; a leaning (mental or intellectual) toward something; as, a bent for music; disposition; a stiff or wiry grass.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Imp. & pp. of BEND, v.
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Tendency; disposition.
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The limit of endurance or capacity.
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A stiff wiry grass.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. State of being inclined from a straight line; curvity;—leaning or bias; propensity;—particular direction or tendency.
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The state of being bent; degree of flexure; declivity; utmost power; application of the mind; inclination, disposition towards something; determination, fixed purpose; turn of the temper or disposition; tendency, flexion; a stalk or grass, called the Bent-grass.
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par. of the berb To bend. Made crooked; directed to a certain point; determined upon.
By Thomas Sheridan
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