bent

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Verb 1.2.2 Adjective 1.2.2.1 Synonyms 1.2.2.2 Translations 1.2.3 Noun 1.2.3.1 Synonyms 1.2.3.2 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 2 Dutch 2.1 Verb 3 Hungarian 3.1 Adverb 4 Turkish 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: bĕnt, IPA: /bɛnt/, SAMPA: /bent/
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  Rhymes: -ɛnt

[edit] Etymology 1

From bend.

[edit] Verb

bent

1. Simple past tense and past participle of bend.

[edit] Adjective

bent (comparative more bent, superlative most bent)

1. Of something that is usually straight: folded.
2. (slang, derogatory, mostly UK) Homosexual.
3. Determined or insistent.

   He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.

4. Of a person leading a life of crime.
5. (slang, soccer) inaccurate at shooting

   That shot was so bent it left the pitch.

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• (1): crooked
• (2): queer

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[edit] Noun

bent (plural bents)

1. An inclination or talent.

   He had a natural bent for painting.

2. A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.

   His mind was of a technical bent.

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• (an inclination or talent): disposition, predilection, proclivity, propensity

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[edit] Etymology 2

Origin uncertain. Apparently representing Old English beonet- (attested only in place-names and personal names), cognate with Old High German binuz (modern German Binse (“‘rush, reed’”)).

[edit] Noun

bent (plural bents)

1. Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes’, The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales, Folio Society 2005, p. 121:

     Gunga Dass gave me a double handful of dried bents which I thrust down the mouth of the lair to the right of his, and followed myself, feet foremost [...].

2. A grassy area, grassland.

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[edit] Verb

bent

1. are (second person singular present tense of zijn)

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[edit] Adverb

bent

1. inside

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[edit] Etymology

From Persian بند (band).

[edit] Noun

bent

1. dam