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单词 bent
释义

bent

See also: Bent

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) enPR: bĕnt, IPA(key): /bɛnt/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

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.
    Synonym: crooked
  2. (colloquial, chiefly UK) Corrupt, dishonest.
    Synonym: crooked
  3. (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly UK) Homosexual.
    Synonyms: queer; see also Thesaurus:homosexual
    • 2019 January 22, Joe Sommerlad, “The reasons why Bohemian Rhapsody faced such a massive backlash”, in The Independent‎:
      Asked bluntly by Julie Webb of the NME whether he was “bent” in December 1974, Freddie answered evasively: “You're a crafty cow. […] ”
  4. 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:
      […] 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.
  5. (Of a person) leading a life of crime.
  6. (slang, soccer) Inaccurately aimed.
    That shot was so bent it left the pitch.
  7. (colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends.
  8. (slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.
    Man, I am so bent right now!
Derived terms
  • bent as a nine-bob note
  • bent as a two bob
  • bent car
  • bent copper
  • bent edge
  • bent fork
  • bent function
  • bent grass
  • bent on
  • bent on a splice
  • bent-side
  • get bent
  • get bent out of shape
  • hellbent
  • (determined): hell-bent
Translations

Noun

bent (plural bents)

  1. An inclination or talent.
    He had a natural bent for painting.
    • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii], page 384:
      They fool me to the top of my bent.
  2. A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
    His mind was of a technical bent.
  3. 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
  4. A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
    • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415:
      Beneath the lowering brow, and on a bent, / The temple stood of Mars armipotent
  5. 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
  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
Derived terms
  • at the top of one's bent
  • to the top of one's bent
Translations
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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[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 9”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], OCLC 855945:
      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

Derived terms
  • brown bent
Translations
grass — see bentgrass
area — see grassland

Dutch

Etymology

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

  • IPA(key): /bɛnt/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Verb

bent

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

References

  1. A. van Loey, Schönfeld's Historische Grammatica van het Nederlands, 8. druk 1970, →ISBN; §147a

Hungarian

Etymology

From benn, following the example of alant and lent.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbɛnt]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: bent
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Adverb

bent (comparative beljebb or bentebb, superlative legbeljebb or legbentebb)

  1. inside
    Synonym: benn
    Antonyms: kinn, kint
  • -ba / -be
  • -ban / -ben
  • be → be-
  • bél (and archaic bel)
  • bel-
  • bele (belé, beléje)
  • -beli (-béli)
  • beljebb (bellebb)
  • bellebbez (beljebbez)
  • belőle
  • belső (benső)
  • belül (belől, bévül)
  • benne
  • bennünket, -eteket
  • bent (benn)
  • -ból / -ből

References

  1. 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

  • 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 2023)

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): /ˈbɛnt/

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 بند‎ (band).

Noun

bent (definite accusative bendi, plural bentler)

  1. dam
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