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English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: b?nt, IPA^(key): /b?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

From bend +? -t.

Verb

bent

1. simple past tense and past participle of bend

Adjective

bent (comparative benter or more bent, superlative bentest or most bent)

1. (Of something that is usually straight) folded, dented
2. (colloquial, chiefly Britain) corrupt, dishonest
3. (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly Britain) Homosexual.
4. Determined or insistent.

   Synonym: hell-bent
5. (Of a person) leading a life of crime.
6. (slang, soccer) inaccurately aimed

7. (colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends
8. (slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.

Synonyms

• (folded, corrupt): crooked
• (homosexual): queer

Derived terms

• bent as a nine-bob note
• bent copper

Related terms

• (determined): hell-bent

Translations

Noun

bent (plural bents)

1. An inclination or talent.

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

3. The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
   • 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick

     the force they have in the discharge , according to several bents

4. A declivity or slope, as of a hill.

   • Beneath the lowering brow, and on a bent,
     The temple stood of Mars armipotent

5. Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.

   • bents and turns of the matter

6. (carpentry) A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.
   1. Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
   2. Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
7. 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

Synonyms

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

Translations

Etymology 2

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

bent (countable and uncountable, plural bents)

1. 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.

2. A grassy area, grassland.
   • c. 1500, The Ballad of Chevy Chase

     Bowmen bickered upon the bent.

3. The old dried stalks of grasses.

Synonyms

(grass): bentgrass

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Created in analogy to Dutch ben (“am”). Modern Dutch bent has replaced the Middle Dutch verb forms bes and best (“(you) are (sg.)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Verb

bent

1. second-person singular present indicative of zijn; are.

References

Hungarian

Etymology

From benn, following the example of alant and lent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?nt]
• Hyphenation: bent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Adverb

bent (comparative bentebb, superlative legbentebb)

1. inside

   Synonym: benn

   Antonyms: kinn, kint

References

Lithuanian

Adverb

bent

1. at least.

Old Norse

Participle

bent

1. strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of bendr

Verb

bent

1. supine of benda

Scots

Alternative forms

• bynt

Etymology

From Old English beonet, compare Middle English bent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?nt/

Noun

bent (plural bents)

1. (archaic, 14th century) Coarse or wiry grass growing upon moorlands.
2. (archaic, 15th century) An area covered with coarse or wiry grass; a moor.

Derived terms

• benty (covered in bent)

Turkish

Etymology

From Persian ???? (band).

Noun

bent (definite accusative {{{1}}}, plural {{{2}}})

1. dam

English

Etymology

From Middle English benden, from Old English bendan (“to bind or bend (a bow), fetter, restrain”), from Proto-Germanic *bandijan? (“to bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?end?- (“to bind, tie”). Cognate with Middle High German benden (“to fetter”), Danish bænde (“to bend”), Norwegian bende (“to bend”), Faroese benda (“to bend, inflect”), Icelandic benda (“to bend”). More at band.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?nd, IPA^(key): /b?nd/
• (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /b?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

bend (third-person singular simple present bends, present participle bending, simple past and past participle bent or (archaic) bended)

1. (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.

2. (intransitive) To become curved.

3. (transitive) To cause to change direction.
4. (intransitive) To change direction.

5. (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
6. (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.

7. (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

     Each to his great Father bends.

8. (transitive) To force to submit.
9. (intransitive) To submit.

10. (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
11. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.

12. (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
13. (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.

14. (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.

15. (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

bend (plural bends)

1. A curve.
   • 1968, Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues

     I hear the train a comin'/It's rolling round the bend

2. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
3. (in the plural, medicine, underwater diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.

4. (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
5. (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
   • 1608, John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess, Act 1, Scene 3

     Farewell, poor swain; thou art not for my bend.

6. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
7. (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
8. (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
9. (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.

   the midship bends

10. (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.

Derived terms

Translations

Related terms

• bent

References

• The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [1]

Anagrams

• D. Neb.

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *band (“drop”). Compare Phrygian ???? (bedu, “water”), Sanskrit ?????? (bindú, “drop”), Middle Irish banna, baina (“drop”) and possibly Latin F?ns Bandusiae.

Noun

bend m

1. pond, water reservoir
2. idle or provocative words
3. servant, henchman

Related terms

• përbindësh

Northern Kurdish

Noun

bend ?

1. slave

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From benda, bende (“to bend”).

Noun

bend n (definite singular bendet, indefinite plural bend, definite plural benda)

1. a bend
2. a bent position
3. a butt on a thick rope

Participle

bend (neuter bendt, definite singular and plural bende)

1. past participle of benda and bende

Verb

bend

1. imperative of benda and bende

References

• “bend” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Participle

bend

1. inflection of bendr:
   1. strong feminine nominative singular
   2. strong neuter nominative/accusative plural

Verb

bend

1. second-person singular active imperative of benda

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English bend.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?b?d??/

Noun

bend m (plural bends)

1. (music, electric guitar) bend (change in pitch produced by bending a string)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English band.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bênd/

Noun

b?nd m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (music) band (group of musicians)

Declension