bent
English[edit]
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Etymology 1[edit]
Verb[edit]
bent
- simple past tense and past participle of bend
Adjective[edit]
bent (comparative benter or more bent, superlative bentest or most bent)
- (Of something that is usually straight) Folded, dented.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK) Corrupt, dishonest.
- (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly UK) Homosexual.
- Determined or insistent.
- Synonym: hell-bent
- He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.
- They were bent on mischief.
- 2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes ends up surrendering to formula”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- […] in the ape posse, bent on vengeance, traversing landscapes clothed in snow and bristling with California red fir and silver pine, spooking human stragglers, and running across fresh graves as they search for the nameless colonel and try to piece together why the humans are killing each other.
- (Of a person) leading a life of crime.
- (slang, soccer) Inaccurately aimed.
- That shot was so bent it left the pitch.
- (colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends.
- (slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.
- Man, I am so bent right now!
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- (determined): hell-bent
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Noun[edit]
bent (plural bents)
- An inclination or talent.
- He had a natural bent for painting.
- c. 1599 to 1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, III.ii.384:
- They fool me to the top of my bent.
- A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
- His mind was of a technical bent.
- The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
- the bent of a bow
- 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick
- the force they have in the discharge , according to several bents
- A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
- 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415:
- Beneath the lowering brow, and on a bent,
The temple stood of Mars armipotent
- Beneath the lowering brow, and on a bent,
- Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
- a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, OCLC 6963663:
- bents and turns of the matter
- (carpentry) A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.
- Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
- 1707, John Norris, Practical Discourses Upon the Beatitudes of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
- the full bent and stress of the soul
- 1707, John Norris, Practical Discourses Upon the Beatitudes of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Synonyms[edit]
- (an inclination or talent): disposition, predilection, proclivity, propensity, see also Thesaurus:predilection
Translations[edit]
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Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English bent, benet, from Old English *beonet (attested only in place-names and personal names), from Proto-West Germanic *binut (“reed, rush”), of uncertain origin.
Noun[edit]
bent (countable and uncountable, plural bents)
- Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
- 1627, Michael Drayton, "Nymphidia", 1810 reprint page 124:
- His spear a bent, both stiff and strong.
- 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 [...].
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 9
- Clusters of strong flowers rose everywhere above the coarse tussocks of bent.
- 1627, Michael Drayton, "Nymphidia", 1810 reprint page 124:
- A grassy area, grassland.
- c. 1500, The Ballad of Chevy Chase
- Bowmen bickered upon the bent.
- c. 1500, The Ballad of Chevy Chase
- The old dried stalks of grasses.
Synonyms[edit]
(grass): bentgrass
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Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Innovative form replacing older zijt, which is still maintained in combination with the archaic/southern gij. The form bent was built by analogy with ben (“I am”) after jij had adopted the function of second-person singular. In this it may (but need not) have been influenced by Middle Dutch bes, the form used with the defunct singular pronoun du.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
bent
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Hungarian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From benn, following the example of alant and lent.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
bent (comparative beljebb or bentebb, superlative legbeljebb or legbentebb)
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References[edit]
- ^ bent in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further reading[edit]
- bent , mostly redirecting to benn in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- bent in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2022)
Lithuanian[edit]
Adverb[edit]
bent
- at least.
Old Norse[edit]
Participle[edit]
bent
Verb[edit]
bent
Scots[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Old English beonet, compare Middle English bent.
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Noun[edit]
bent (plural bents)
- (archaic, 14th century) Coarse or wiry grass growing upon moorlands.
- (archaic, 15th century) An area covered with coarse or wiry grass; a moor.
Derived terms[edit]
- benty (covered in bent)
Turkish[edit]
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