Bent vs Affection - What's the difference?
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(bend)
(Of something that is usually straight) folded, dented
(derogatory, colloquial, chiefly, UK) Homosexual.
Determined or insistent.
Of a person, leading a life of crime.
(slang, football) inaccurate at shooting
(colloquial, chiefly, US) Suffering from the bends
(slang) High]] from using both [[Cannabis, marijuana and alcohol.
An inclination or talent.
A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
* John Locke
(carpentry) A transverse frame of a framed structure.
Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
* Norris
Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
* Drayton
* 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes’, The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales , Folio Society 2005, p. 121:
* 1913 ,
A grassy area, grassland.
* The Ballad of Chevy Chase
The act of affecting or acting upon.
The state of being affected.
An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc., are affections of bodies.
Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc.; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-23, author=(Mark Cocker)
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, title= A feeling of love or strong attachment.
* 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Chapter 61
(medicine, archaic) Disease; morbid symptom; malady.
* Dunglison
to feel an , emotion or love for.
Bent is a related term of affection.
As a proper noun bent
is .As a noun affection is
the act of affecting or acting upon.As a verb affection is
to feel an , emotion or love for.bent
English
Etymology 1
From bend.Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.
- They were bent on mischief.
- That shot was so bent it left the pitch.
- Man, I am so bent right now!
Synonyms
* (folded) crooked * (homosexual) queerDerived terms
* bent as a nine-bob noteNoun
(en noun)- He had a natural bent for painting.
- His mind was of a technical bent .
- the bent of a bow
- (Wilkins)
- (Dryden)
- bents and turns of the matter
- the full bent and stress of the soul
Synonyms
* (an inclination or talent) disposition, predilection, proclivity, propensityEtymology 2
Origin uncertain. Apparently representing (etyl) (term) (attested only in place-names and personal names), cognate with Old High German binuz (modern German ).Noun
(en noun)- His spear a bent , both stiff and strong.
- 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 [...].
- Clusters of strong flowers rose everywhere above the coarse tussocks of bent .
- Bowmen bickered upon the bent .
affection
English
(wikipedia affection)Noun
(en noun)Wings of Desire, passage=Our affections for wild animals are distributed very unevenly. Take insects. Some 750,000 species have already been documented worldwide and the great American naturalist EO Wilson called them "the little things that run the world". Through their recycling of nutrients and the supply of base-level protein to a vast array of higher life forms, insects underpin the existence of life on this planet. Yet when it comes to human concern for creepy-crawlies, forget it.}}
- Mr. Bennet missed his second daughter exceedingly; his affection for her drew him oftener from home than anything else could do. He delighted in going to Pemberley, especially when he was least expected.
- a pulmonary affection