Bent vs Endowment - What's the difference?
bent | endowment | Synonyms |
(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
Something with which a person or thing is endowed.
* 1791 , , Letter to Thomas Jefferson on racism and slavery (19 August 1791):
* 1958 , , Speech to the United Parents Association:
* 1980 , Ray Broadus Browne, Rituals and ceremonies in popular culture , page 230:
* 1985 , , Interview on The Open Mind (11 May 1985):
* 2006 , Natalie R. Collins, Wives and Sisters , page 54:
Property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution.
* 1884 , , in chapter 8 of his novella Flatland :
* 1932 , , after assuming the presidency of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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Bent is a synonym of endowment.
As a proper noun bent
is .As a noun endowment is
something with which a person or thing is endowed.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 .
endowment
English
Noun
(en noun)- I suppose it is a truth too well attested to you, to need a proof here, that we are a race of beings, who have long labored under the abuse and censure of the world; that we have long been looked upon with an eye of contempt; and that we have long been considered rather as brutish than human, and scarcely capable of mental endowments .
- We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments .
- the woman with larger-than-usual breasts will be initially perceived only as a sex object if she doesn't take steps to disguise her endowment .
- What is … important is that we — number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other. The best from the best, and the best from those who, perhaps, might not have the same endowment .
- Tami also had huge breasts, and every teenage boy wanted to touch them. Tami, knowing she was not beautiful, used her endowment to great advantage.
- Not content with the natural neglect into which Sight Recognition was falling, they began boldly to demand the legal prohibition of all "monopolizing and aristocratic Arts" and the consequent abolition of all endowments for the studies of Sight Recognition, Mathematics, and Feeling.
- I seem to see a great university, great in endowment , in land, in buildings, in equipment, but greater still, second to none, in its practical idealism, and its social usefulness.
The rise of smart beta, passage=Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.}}