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bent | blent |

As a proper noun bent

is .

As a verb blent is

(archaic|poetic) (blend).

bent

English

Etymology 1

From bend.

Verb

(head)
  • (bend)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (Of something that is usually straight) folded, dented
  • (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly, UK) Homosexual.
  • Determined or insistent.
    • He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.
    They were bent on mischief.
  • Of a person, leading a life of crime.
  • (slang, football) inaccurate at shooting
    • That shot was so bent it left the pitch.
  • (colloquial, chiefly, US) Suffering from the bends
  • (slang) High]] from using both [[Cannabis, marijuana and alcohol.
    • Man, I am so bent right now!
    Synonyms
    * (folded) crooked * (homosexual) queer
    Derived terms
    * bent as a nine-bob note
    Related terms
    * (determined) hellbent

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An inclination or talent.
    • He had a natural bent for painting.
  • 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
    (Wilkins)
  • A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
    • (Dryden)
  • Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
  • * John Locke
    • bents and turns of the matter
  • (carpentry) A transverse frame of a framed structure.
  • Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
  • * Norris
    • the full bent and stress of the soul
    Synonyms
    * (an inclination or talent) disposition, predilection, proclivity, propensity

    Etymology 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)
  • Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
  • * Drayton
    • 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 ,
    • Clusters of strong flowers rose everywhere above the coarse tussocks of bent .
  • A grassy area, grassland.
  • * The Ballad of Chevy Chase
    • Bowmen bickered upon the bent .
    English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms ----

    blent

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic, poetic) (blend)
  • *1849 , , Shirley .
  • *:She would return home comforted, carrying in her mind a clearer vision of his aspect, a distincter recollection of his voice, his smile, his hearing; and, blent with these impressions, was often a sweet persuasion that, if she could get near him, his heart might welcome her presence yet: that at this moment he might be willing to extend his hand and draw her to him, and shelter her at his side as he used to do.
  • * {{quote-book, title=, year=1883, author=Omar Khayyám, trans. Edward Henry Whinfield, other=, section=No. 96, page=66, passage=
    • The good and evil with man's nature blent , / The weal and woe that heaven's decrees have sent— / Impute them not to motions of the skies— / Skies than thyself ten times more impotent.}}
  • * 1908 , , Anne of Green Gables
    • There was such a nice frosty, Octobery smell in the air, blent with the delightful odor of newly plowed fields.