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Definition: Bent |
BentAdjective1. Altered from an originally straight condition; "a bent wire". 2. Fixed in your purpose; "bent on going to the theater"; "dead set against intervening"; "out to win every event". 3. Used of the back and knees; stooped; "on bended knee"; "with bent (or bended) back". 4. Used especially of the head or upper back; "a bent head and sloping shoulders". 5. Of metal e.g.; "bent nails"; "a car with a crumpled front end"; "dented fenders". Noun1. A relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way; "the set of his mind was obvious". 2. Grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens. 3. A special way of doing something; "he had a bent for it"; "he had a special knack for getting into trouble"; "he couldn't get the hang of it". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Bent" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be blessed". |
Date "bent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Building & Civil Engineering | Where a pile or a -- is placed in subsiding fill or soil, no frictional resistance from the subsiding strata shall be considered to contribute to support of the load. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Bent Inclination; talent for something. Out of my bent, not in my way, not in the range of my talent. Bent on it, inclined to it. As a thing bent is inclined, so a bent is an inclination or bias. Genius or talent is a bent or bias. "Whatever is done best, is done from the natural bent and disposition of the mind."-Hazlitt: Table Talk. They fool me to the top of my bent, i.e. as far as the bow can be bent without snapping. (Hamlet, iii. 2.) (See Bend.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. In tunnel timbering, two posts and a roof timber b. A transverse structure consisting of legs, bracing, and feet used for the purpose of supporting a gallery or conveyor frame at a fixedelevation. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BENT | English | Beginning Evening Nautical Twilight | Meteorology & Standards, Transportation |
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Synonyms: BentSynonyms: bended (adj), bent on(p) (adj), bowed (adj), crumpled (adj), dead set(p) (adj), dented (adj), inclined (adj), intent on(p) (adj), out to(p) (adj), bent grass (n), bentgrass (n), hang (n), knack (n), set (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affections | Noun: affections, affect; character, qualities, disposition, nature, spirit, tone; temper, temperament; diathesis, idiosyncrasy; cast of mind, cast of soul, habit of mind, habit of soul, frame of mind, frame of soul; predilection, turn, natural turn of mind; bent, bias, predisposition, proneness, proclivity, propensity, propenseness, propension, propendency; vein, humor, mood, grain, mettle; sympathy; (love). |
Angularity | Adjective: angular, bent, crooked, aduncous, uncinated, aquiline, jagged, serrated; falciform, falcated; furcated, forked, bifurcate, zigzag; furcular; hooked; dovetailed; knock kneed, crinkled, akimbo, kimbo, geniculated; oblique. |
Desire | Mind, inclination, leaning, bent, animus, partiality, penchant, predilection; propensity; willingness; liking, love, fondness, relish. |
Inclosure | Barrier, barricade; gate, gateway; bent, dingle; door, hatch, cordon; prison. |
Tendency | Noun: tendency; aptness, proneness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, propensity, susceptibility; conatus, nisus; liability; quality, nature, temperament; idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy; cast, vein, grain; humor, mood; drift; (direction); conduciveness, conducement; applicability; (utility); subservience; (instrumentality). |
Willingness | Disposition, inclination, leaning, animus; frame of mind, humor, mood, vein; bent; (turn of mind); penchant; (desire);disposition, inclination, leaning, animus; frame of mind, humor, mood, vein; bent; (turn of mind); penchant; (desire); aptitude. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bent |
| Specialty definitions using "bent": bent sieve. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bent": Varus. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bent" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (are, have), Hungarian (in, within, within doors), Turkish (article, barrage, clause, dike, dyke, embankment, limb, paragraph, strophe, Weir), Turkmen (dam, dyke). |
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Screenplays | Shocks are so much better absorbed with the knees bent. (The Wicker Man; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer) I bent my wookie (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) I'm talking about you and me bent over the Xerox machine when no one's looking (Legalese; writing credit: Billy Ray) This is a cross, ah, of Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sensemilia (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis) Am too, your standing in the bushes hugging a bent box of chocolates, and I'm. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Lyrics | I'm bent (Bent; performing artist: Matchbox 20) Meaning I got the hit that a get'cha bent (Funkdafied; performing artist: Da Brat) He was big and bent and gray and old, (A Boy Named Sue; performing artist: Johnny Cash) Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter (I Hope You Dance; performing artist: LEE AN WOMACK) Kinda bent, but we ain't breakin' (The Long Run; performing artist: The Eagles) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hell Bent for Leather (1960) As the Twig Is Bent (1944) Hell Bent for Love (1934) Pleasure Bent (1925) Hell Bent (1918) | |
Song Titles | Bent (performing artist: Matchbox 20) | |
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 | South Pole Station on a day without a horizon, near "white out" conditions. Flags mark path. One would literally feel like walking in a bowl of milk. There was no surface definition and one had to walk with bent knees because impossible to determine if surface was uneven. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Artificial limbs : Front view of amputee with prosthesis for right arm, arm bent. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Overturned on the reef, on the western side of Apia Harbor, Upolu, Samoa, during salvage work after the storm. Note the gun mounted on her poop deck, and bent propeller shaft visible at her stern. Credit: NAVY. |  | Photograph by Edward L. Wilson and W. Irving Adams, showing part of the U.S. Navy's exhibit at the exhibition, featuring a U.S. flag; Charles O. Cole's portrait of Dick Libby (see Photo # KN-582); models of drydocks, with a monitor in the one at left; heavy iron bars bent by the Boston Navy Yard's bending mill; and a monument made of wood from ships lost in the Norfolk-Hampton Roads area during the Civil War, including (from top to bottom): CSS Florida, USS Cumberland, USS Merrimack, USS Delaware, USS Columbia, USS Columbus, USS Pennsylvania, USS United States and USS Raritan. Credit: NAVY. |
 | She bent down over the dead monk. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bird's-eye view of a Native American deer hunt in New France (Canada), showing Indians driving deer towards fences into narrow enclosure to be killed, and two dead deer hanging from bent trees. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Three little maids on pleasure bent. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Production. Locomotives. Heavy steel plates are bent on the Southwark bending roll of a large Eastern plant now producing tanks, locomotives, and ship propellers for our armed forces. Baldwin Locomotive Works. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Inflation. Street excitement in London during England's famous "South Sea Bubble" of the early 18th century. Center is John Blunt, originator of the "Bubble," surrounded by citizens eagerly bent on getting-rich-quick stocks. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Animals. Elephant (side of head with trunk bent back) I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | A medium distorted electric guitar note being slightly bent upward. | | A power chord bent in an upward manner on an electric guitar. |
| A bent note played on a banjo. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Pope | Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. |
Confucius | With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things. |
Matthew Arnold | Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. |
Mencius | Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight. |
Miguel De Cervantes | The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. |
Plato | Let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent. |
Publilius Syrus | He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion. |
Virgil | As a twig is bent the tree inclines. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
After Three Days | Carroll, Lewis | The aged brows were bent, Bent to a frown, half thought, and half annoy, That all their stores of subtlest argument Were baffled by a boy. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He bent over and spoke in an under tone to the guide Lacoste |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He bent down to rake the fire |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The woman stooped into the tent and bent her head over Granma |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | This was my answer with respect to those youths who were bent on this pursuit, trusting that they would soon outgrow it. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | If the penis is abnormally bumped or bent, an area where the septum attaches to the elastic fibers may stretch beyond a limit, injuring the lining of the erectile chamber and, for example, rupturing small blood vessels. (references) | |
Business | Many of the boxes were bent or out of their original shape, indicating either poor packaging, or poor handling and maintenance. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | India | In Tripura there were several cases of harassment of non-Christians by Christian members of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), a militant tribal group with an evangelical bent. (references) |
Human Rights | Morocco | El-Kihal also alleged to AMDH that members of the Gendarmerie tied his hands behind his back, bent him backward on his knees, and applied pressure to his stomach while fingers were forced down his throat. (references) |
Swaziland | According to unofficial reports, police also still used the Kentucky method of interrogation in which the arms and legs of suspects are bent and tied together with rope or chain, then the person is beaten. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy is commonly a beautiful young man, with a red necktie and an intricate system of cobwebs extending from his nose to his desk. When accidentally struck by the janitor's broom, he gives off a cloud of dust. "Chief Deputy," the Master cried, "To-day the books are to be tried By experts and accountants who Have been commissioned to go through Our office here, to see if we Have stolen injudiciously. Please have the proper entries made, The proper balances displayed, Conforming to the whole amount Of cash on hand -- which they will count. I've long admired your punctual way -- Here at the break and close of day, Confronting in your chair the crowd Of business men, whose voices loud And gestures violent you quell By some mysterious, calm spell -- Some magic lurking in your look That brings the noisiest to book And spreads a holy and profound Tranquillity o'er all around. So orderly all's done that they Who came to draw remain to pay. But now the time demands, at last, That you employ your genius vast In energies more active. Rise And shake the lightnings from your eyes; Inspire your underlings, and fling Your spirit into everything!" The Master's hand here dealt a whack Upon the Deputy's bent back, When straightway to the floor there fell A shrunken globe, a rattling shell A blackened, withered, eyeless head! The man had been a twelvemonth dead. Jamrach Holobom |
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Ann Richards | Women after menopause because of the loss of estrogen. Men get it too, though. And a lot of cases I will be hairline fractures, you'll see people who are sort of bent over stooped. |
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| "Bent" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 59.39% of the time. "Bent" is used about 1,346 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 59.39% | 799 | 8,693 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 27.1% | 365 | 14,817 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 12.55% | 169 | 23,972 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.97% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,346 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bent" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bent | Last name | 1,000 | 8,004 |
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| "Bent" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be blessed". | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "bent". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Bentley | Male | English | A bent grass-covered clearing |
| Benton | Male | English | A town near bent grass |
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| The following table summarizes names related to "Bent." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Benedikta | Female | Czech | Benedict |
| Bendt | Male | Danish | Benedict |
| Benedikte | Female | Danish | Benedict |
| Bent | Male | Danish | Benedict |
| Benedict | Male | English | N/A |
| Benedicta | Female | English | Benedict |
| Bennett | Male | English | Benedict |
| Benson | Male | English | Benedict |
| Pentti | Male | Finnish | Benedict |
| Bénédicte | Female | French | Benedict |
| Benoit | Male | French | Benedict |
| Benoite | Female | French | Benedict |
| Benedikt | Male | German | Benedict |
| Benedikta | Female | German | Benedict |
| Benedek | Male | Hungarian | Benedict |
| Benedetta | Female | Italian | Benedict |
| Benedetto | Male | Italian | Benedict |
| Benesh | Male | Jewish | Benedict |
| Benedicta | Female | Late Roman | Benedict |
| Bendiks | Male | Latvian | Benedict |
| Benedikte | Female | Norwegian | Benedict |
| Benedita | Female | Portuguese | Benedict |
| Benedito | Male | Portuguese | Benedict |
| Bento | Male | Portuguese | Benedict |
| Benito | Male | Spanish | Benedict |
| Bengt | Male | Swedish | Benedict |
| Bengta | Female | Swedish | Benedict |
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1. Bent, NM |
Expressions using "bent": anode bent ♦ be bent ♦ be bent on ♦ be bent upon ♦ bent at right angles ♦ bent back ♦ bent County ♦ bent Creek ♦ bent crumpled dented ♦ bent forwards ♦ bent grass ♦ bent inwards ♦ bent Mountain ♦ bent on ♦ bent on mischief ♦ bent over edge ♦ bent over his books ♦ bent upon ♦ brown bent ♦ creeping bent ♦ dog bent ♦ follow one's bent ♦ fool to the top of one's bent ♦ get bent ♦ Half bent ♦ his back is bent ♦ pile bent ♦ Rhode Island bent ♦ s bent ♦ to the top of one's bent ♦ velvet bent ♦ velvet bent grass. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bent": bent-arm, bent-backed, bent-handled, bent-kneed, bent-leg, bent-over, bent-shank, bent-up, bent-wing, bent-winged, bent-wire-and-float. | |
Ending with "bent": wind-bent. | |
Containing "bent": be hell-bent on doing smth.. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bent | 225 | bent over woman | 16 |
bent over | 174 | bent lyrics | 16 |
bent penis | 120 | bent creek golf course | 16 |
bent vinn | 97 | bent creek golf village | 15 |
bent bike | 78 | bent tree country club | 15 |
bent bunz | 50 | hell bent | 15 |
bent girl over | 49 | bent over pic | 14 |
bent creek | 44 | bent over teen | 13 |
bent tree | 42 | bent barbell | 13 |
bent grass | 39 | bent bible fellowship tree | 12 |
bent movie | 34 | bent dick | 12 |
bent willow furniture | 31 | matchbox 20 bent lyrics | 12 |
ass bent over | 29 | bent creek country club | 11 |
bent tree apartment | 23 | bent marine | 11 |
bent boat | 22 | bent penis picture | 11 |
bent over row | 21 | bent rim | 10 |
babe bent over | 20 | bent golf tree | 10 |
bent tree golf course | 19 | bent cock | 10 |
bent glass | 18 | bent creek golf | 10 |
bent lyrics matchbox twenty | 18 | bent club golf tree | 10 |
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| Language | Translations for "bent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | prirje (affinity, aptitude, current, disposition, drift, flair, fondness, gift, habit, inclination, leaning, liability, mission, penchant, proclivity, propensity, run, set, taste, tendency, trend, vocation), pëlqim (acceptance, accord, compliance, consent, endearment, Favor, favour, gusto, liking, love, partiality, pleasure, readiness), i thyer (aged, broken, cloven, decrepit, exhausted, montane, old, rough, rugged, split, uneven), i kërrusur (crooked, round shouldered), gërmuq (bender, crooked), aftësi (ability, accomplishment, aptitude, capability, capacity, disposition, facility, faculty, flair, gift, hand, knack, know how, neatness, power, proficiency, qualification, science, skill, talent, value). (various references) | |
Arabic | ميل (affection, aptness, bevel, cant, disposition, flair, genius, gradient, gust, gusto, inclination, lean, leaning, liking, obliqueness, obliquity, penchant, persuasion, ply, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, readiness, run, sentiment, set, slant, slope, strain, tendency, tip, turn, use, will), منحنى (bowed, curve), منحرف (askew, aslant, awry, deflector, depraved, devious, errant, inclined, oblique, perverse, skew, slant, slanted, slanting, tilted), مقوس (arcuate), محني (swelling), محدب (arched, cambered, convex, crooked, inclination, prominent, protuberant, vaulted), متقوس (crooked, curved), مطوي (folded, tucked), مصمم على (bound), مال (assets, be inclined, bend, cant, capital, chattel, coins, estate, feel sympathy for, funds, gold, incline, lean, like, pelf, possessions, property, purse, shekels, skew, slant, slope, sympathize with, tilt, tip), مائل (atilt, awry, bevel, bias, cock eyed, diagonal, inclined, oblique, sidelong, skew, slant, slanted, slantwise, slope, sloping, stooping, thwart, titled), نزعة (bias, direction, disposition, genius, leaning, movement, penchant, ply, predisposition, proclivity, strain, streak, temper, tendency, trend, wind), لوى (bend, contort, curl, flex, incline, screw, turn, twist, wrench, wring, writhe, wry), القدرة على الإحتمال, إنحنى (bend, bend over, bow, crouch, curve, dip, double up, droop, duck, hunch, incline, low bow, recline, sag, stoop, tip). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | склонност (addiction, affectation, aptitude, bias, disposition, fancy, fondness, habit, inclination, leaning, liability, liking, partiality, penchant, ply, predilection, predispose, prepossession, proclivity, proneness, propensity, relish, squint, stomach, taste, tendency, turn, vein), наклонност (habitude, inclination, liability, liking, set, strain, vocation), поле (domain, field, margin, open country, plain, veld, veldt), подвит (tucked in). (various references) | |
Chinese | 曲 (crooked, song, tune, wrong), 彎曲 (bend, curve, warp, wind), 彎 (bend), 弯 (Bend, bends), 屈 (feel wronged). (various references) | |
Czech | zohýbaný (twisted), vlohy (aptitude, faculty, gift), teplý (gay, muggy, warm), sklon (aptitude, bevel, bias, dip, disposition, drive, fall, gradient, inclination, lean, leaning, penchant, ply, proclivity, propensity, rake, slant, slope, strain, tendency, tilt, twist), schopnosti, ohyb (bend, crook, curve, elbow, flex, offset, turn), ohnutý (crooked), náklonnost (affection, bias, Favor, favour, fondness, goodwill, inclination, partiality, penchant, proclivity, taste), křivácký, dispozice (disposal, disposition, layout, setup). (various references) | |
Danish | bøjet (curved). (various references) | |
Dutch | krom (curved, hook), gebogen (curved). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kurba (curved). (various references) | |
Faeroese | bogin (curved). (various references) | |
Farsi | منحنی (Crump, Cycloid, Round), نشیب (Downhill), سرازیری (Declivity, Dip, Downhill, Pitch, Slide, Slope, Tilt), سربالاءی (Accolade, Ascent, Rise, Slope, Up, Upgrade, Uphill), علف نیزار, علف شبیه نی , علف بوریا, خمیدگی (Bend, Curvature, Loop, Offset, Rake, Stoop), خم شده , خم (Crank, Jar, Knee, Meander, Recumbent, Vat). (various references) | |
Finnish | käyrä (crooked, curve, curved, diagram, graph). (various references) | |
French | courbe (bend, bending). (various references) | |
German | gebogen (aquiline, circumflex, convoluted, convolutely, curved, hooked, inflected), verbogen (curved, twisted, warped), krumm (awry, bandy, crooked, curved, hooked, hunched, warped, wrily, wry), beugte (flexed). (various references) | |
Greek | κυρτόσ (convex, crooked, curved, gibbous, warped), κυρτός (convex, curved), κλίση (acclivity, aptitude, bend, bias, cant, careen, conjugation, flair, flexion, gradient, inclination, inflection, inflexion, leaning, list, penchant, pitch, proclivity, propensity, slant, slope, tendency, tilt, tipping), κλίνων (bender, tipper), στραβωμένοσ (warped), γυρτόσ (inclined), γεφύρωμα ενός προβλήτα (frame, trestle of a jetty), πλαίσιο (casing, context, frame), λυγισμένοσ, τάση (affinity, drift, inclination, potential, proclivity, strain, tendency, trend), ομάδα πασσάλων (pile bent, roupp of piles). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעוקם (awry, crooked, curved, twisted), שפוף (crouched, droopy, squat, stooping), שחוח (bowed, downcast, droopy), פתלתול (crooked, curved, perverse, serpentine, twisted), כפוף (bowed, bowing, crooked, flection, flexion, hunched up, inclined, reclinate, subject, subordinate, subordination, subservient), "רוך (prepared, taut, tense, trigger, vigilant), 'חון (abdomen, awry, belly, bottom), רכון (bending over, stooping), וט" (apt, given, inclined, prone, subject), טי" (deviation, disposition, inclination, leaning, liking, penchant, pitch, predilection, proclivity, propensity, rake, set, slant, spirit, streak, taste, tendency, tenor, tide, tilt, trend), טוי (askew, extended, inclined, stretched). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hajlott (aquiline, bended, crooked, crump, curved, hooked, leant), hajlam (aptitude, bias, dispose, disposition, gift, hank, inclination, instinct, leaning, liability, penchant, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, susceptibility, tendency), hajló (canting, leaning, stiff), elgörbített. (various references) | |
Indonesian | bertekat, bengkol (curved), ruit (diamond (suit), hook-shaped barb), celengkang-celengkok (twisting, winding). (various references) | |
Italian | curvo (bandy, crooked, curved, round). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 蝦腰 , 屈曲 (be crooked, indented), 傾き (bias, disposition, inclination, list, slope, tendency, trend). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くっきょく (be crooked, indented), かたむき (bias, disposition, inclination, list, slope, tendency, trend), えび"し (stooped over). (various references) | |
Korean | 굽은. (various references) | |
Manx | shaslagh (marram), lhoobit (arched, buckled, hooped), keep, croym (bowed, bowing, drooped, rounded, stooped), cleoyn (inclination), cleayn (attraction, enticement, inclination, inducement, lure, seduction), cam (crooked, deceitful, deformed, intricate, knotty; cam, perverse, rakish angle, wry), aigney (accord, frame of mind, purpose, volition, will). (various references) | |
Norwegian | buktet (curved). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | entbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | torto (askew, awry, cambered, criss-cross, crooked, lopsided, tortile, wry), inclinado (apt, aslope, atilt, biased, canted, declivous, downhill, inclinable, incumbent, leaning, minded, oblique, pendulous, prone, ready, slanting, sloping, superabundant). (various references) | |
Romanian | cotiturã (bend, crook, curve, double, elbow, meander, turn, turning, twist, wind, winding), înclinare (batter, bias, cant, cast, declension, dip, fancy, hang, inclination, lean, leaning, liking, lurch, obliquity, pitching, slope, tilt), încovoiat (crooked, double, hooked, inflected), îndoit (creasy, crooked, double, doubly, hesitating, twice, twofold, wavering), îndoiturã (buckle, cockle, crack, crease, flection, fold, sag), întorsãturã (turn), învârtiturã (spire, trick, turn, wind), adus (brought, gift), încârligat (hooked), cocârjat (crooked), vârtej (backwash, bustle, Eddy, giddiness, gulf, gyration, rotation, swirl, twirl, vortex, whirl, wind spout), curbat (arched, parabolic), curburã (bend, buckle, camber, crack, crook, curvature, curve, flexion, flexure, sweep), gârbovit (round shouldered), iarba câmpului (couch grass), plecat (gone, humble, submissive), tendinţã (aptness, bearing, departure, determination, disposition, drift, drive, endeavor, endeavour, hang, inclination, leaning, proclivity, run, strain, streak, striving, tendency, trend), trecut şi participiu trecut de la bend, aplecat (atilt, inclined, lop-sided, prone). (various references) | |
Russian | склонность (aptitude, disposition, fancy, flair, inclination, inclination for, inclination to, leaning, liking, lurch, partiality, penchant, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, vocation, weakness, zest), гнуть склонность изогнутый, натяжение (drag, pull, pull up, pull-up, stretch, tension), наклонность (inclination), дугой. (various references) | |
Scottish | staon, fiar (crooked, curved, twisted), crom (arched, bow, bowed, crooked, curved, stoop), cròm, cam (blind of one eye, crooked, distorted). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sklonost (affinity, bias, calling, fancy, fondness, inclination, leaning, liking, penchant, proclivity, propensity, taste, tendency), sklon (disposed, fond, inclinable, inclined, minded, open, partial, prone, slanted), savijen (bended, cambered, convolute, convoluted, deflective), rosulja, rešen (determined, purposive, quit, resolute, resolved), pognut (atilt). (various references) | |
Spanish | bastidor (body, chassis, flat, frame, scope, set, take, trestle, wings), hilera de pilotes (frame, trestle of a jetty), caballete (bridge, easel, horse, ridge, trestle), combo (Comber, sledgehammer), curvado (bending, camber, crook, edge bend, free-side bend, hogging, setting, spring), curvatura (bend, curvature), decidido (decided, determined, deterministic, disposed, purposeful, purposive, unflinching), doblado (bending over, double, dub, in duplicate, turned), facilidad (ease, easiness, facility, freedom, lightness), torcido (askew, awry, crooked, distorted, furious, kinky, strained, turned, wry), inclinación (bow, careenage, desire, dip, droop, gradient, inclination, incline, inclining, item, leaning, liking, list, mind, nod, nutation, penchant, pitch, propensity, skew, slant, slanting, slope, sloping, tilt, tilting, want), marco (casement, frame, framework, Mark, mounting, picture frame, setting, take), pórtico (gateway, Piazza, porch, portico, stoop), pilotaje (piling, pilotage), pret y pp de bend, torcida, empalizada del andamio (frame of the service gantry, frame of the service trestle). (various references) | |
Swedish | krokig (bandy, crooked, crookedness, curved, hooked, tortuous, winding), böjd (apt, arched, bended, bowed, crooked, curved, disposed, hooked, inclinable, inclined, inclined to do, inflected). (various references) | |
Thai | แน่วแน่, โกงกิน, ที่ผิ"กฎหมาย, ทักษะ (artifice), รักร่วมเพศ, ค"งอ. (various references) | |
Turkish | bükülmüş (bended, spun, thrown, twisted), yetenek (ability, accomplishment, accomplishments, aptitude, aptness, artistry, caliber, calibre, capability, capacity, competence, competency, disposition, dower, dowry, efficiency, facility, faculty, fitness, flair, gift, hand, instinct, parts, power, prerogative, quality, skill, talent, vocation), yatkınlık (aptness, familiarity, predisposition, proclivity), yatkın (inclined, prone), katlanmış (folded, pleated, pursy, turned, turnup), kararlı (decided, decisive, determined, dogged, firm, flat-footed, hard core, high pressure, immovable, inflexible, intent, professional, resolute, resolved, set, settled, single minded, single-eyed, single-hearted, stable, steadfast, strong-minded, strong-willed, undeterred, unfaltering), kıvrık (convoluted, folded, serpentine, turned, turned down, turned-in, twisted), kır (fell, field, frosty, Gray, grayish, grayness, grey, greyish, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, moor, moorland, prairie, wilderness), istek (adjuration, alacrity, appetite, aspiration, avidity, claim, demand, desire, device, devoutness, disposition, earnestness, enthusiasm, grace, hunger, instance, intentness, mind, pleasure, propensity, readiness, relish, request, requirement, requisition, stomach, studiousness, suit, urge, want, will, wish, zeal), eğri (aslant, aslope, awry, cambered, cockeyed, crooked, curve, graph, oblique, out of the straight, sinuous, skew, skewed, slanting, sloping, slouching, slouchy, tortuous, trajectory, untrue, warped, wry), eğilim (affection, aptitude, bias, current, device, disposition, drift, gravitation, inclination, leaning, liability, notion, obliquity, penchant, ply, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, pulse, relish, sense, set, slant, squint, tendency, tenor, tide, tilt, trend, turn, twist), aklına koymuş, çimenlik (grassplot, green, lawn, meadow, sward, the backs), çimen (bent grass, divot, grass, greensward, lawn, meadow grass, sod, sward, turf). (various references) | |
Turkmen | egri (crooked). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | схильність (addiction, amenability, appetite, aptitude, aptness, bend, care, hang, leaning, penchant, polarity, predisposition, prepossession, strain, taste, vein), схил пагорба, кривий (awry, bandy, cam, cripple, crook, crooked, gammy, lame, wry), кривизна (anfractuosity, bending, bulging, camber, curvature, curve, flection, flexion, hogging), нахилений (pitched, slouch, stooped), нахил (bend, cant, declination, droop, hang, inclination, incline, lurch, notion, obliqueness, obliquity, palate, ply, proclivity, propensity, slope, tilt, tip), натяг, зігнутий (applied, arched, bowed, cranked, crook, crooked, curly, curved, deflected), похилений (lopsided, pendent). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xu hướng (avocation, calling, proclivity, tendency, tide, trend), thoả thích, sở thích, khuynh hướng theo những năng khiếu của mình thoả chí, khiếu (dower). (various references) | |
Welsh | tueddfryd (inclination), tuedd (bias, inclination, tendency), meddylfryd (affection, mind), gogwydd (bias, inclination, slant), crwca (bowed, crooked). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | ankylos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | camur, curva, curvabunt, curvant, curvat, curvatis, curvato, curvatus, curvaverit, curvaverunt, curvavi, curvavit, curvem, curvemur, curvus. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | crump. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | cambre. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 14, Verse 11 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Gegraptai gar zw egw legei kurioV oti emoi kamyei pan gonu kai pasa glwssa exomologhsetai tw qew |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Scriptum est enim vivo ego dicit Dominus quoniam mihi flectet omne genu et omnis lingua confitebitur Deo |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Swa hit is gewriten:"´Swa gewitodlic swa ic eom,´ segð Drihten,´swa sculon ealu cneo for me hnigan;eale tungan sculon me andettan.´" |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For it is writun, Y lyue, seith the Lord, for to me ech kne schal be bowid, and ech tunge schal knouleche to God. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | For it is written: as truely as I lyve sayth ye lorde all knees shall bowe to me and all tonges shall geve a knowledge to God. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For it is said in the holy Writings, By my life, says the Lord, to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give worship to God. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Romans Chapter 14, Verse 11 |
| Cebuano | kay nahisulat kini nga nagaingon: Maingon nga ako buhi, nagaingon ang Ginoo, ang tanang tuhod magaluhod sa atubangan ko, ug ang tanang dila magadayeg sa Dios." |
| Chinese | " 上 寫 著 、 『 主 說 、 我 憑 著 我 的 永 " 起 " 、 萬 膝 必 向 我 跪 拜 、 萬 口 必 向 我 承 認 。 』 |
| Croatian | Jer pisano je: Života mi moga, govori Gospodin, prignut æe se preda mnom svako koljeno i svaki æe jezik priznati Boga. |
| Danish | Thi der er skrevet: "Så sandt jeg lever, siger Herren, for mig skal hvert Knæ bøje sig, og hver Tunge skal bekende Gud." |
| Dutch | Want er is geschreven: Ik leef, zegt de Heere; voor Mij zal alle knie zich buigen, en alle tong zal God belijden. |
| Finnish | Sillä kirjoitettu on: "Niin totta kuin minä elän, sanoo Herra, minun edessäni pitää jokaisen polven notkistuman ja jokaisen kielen ylistämän Jumalaa". |
| French | Car il est écrit: Je suis vivant, dit le Seigneur, Tout genou fléchira devant moi, Et toute langue donnera gloire Dieu. |
| German | denn es steht geschrieben: "So wahr ich lebe, spricht der HERR, mir sollen alle Kniee gebeugt werden, und alle Zungen sollen Gott bekennen." |
| Hungarian | Mert meg van írva: Élek én, mond az Úr, mert nékem hajol meg minden térd, és minden nyelv Istent magasztalja. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Di dalam Alkitab tertulis, "Sesungguhnya," kata Tuhan, "tiap-tiap orang akan bersembah sujud di hadapan-Ku; dan setiap orang akan mengaku bahwa Akulah Allah." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Karena adalah tersurat: Demi hidup-Ku ini firman Tuhan, bahwa tiap-tiap lutut akan bertelut kepada-Ku, dan tiap-tiap lidah akan mengaku kepada Allah. |
| Italian | poiché sta scritto: ogni ginocchio si piegher davanti a me e ogni lingua render gloria a Dio. |
| Maori | Kua oti hoki te tuhituhi, E ora ana ahau, e ai ta te Ariki, e piko katoa nga turi ki ahau, e whakaae ano hoki nga arero katoa ki te Atua. |
| Norwegian | For det er skrevet: Så sant jeg lever, sier Herren, for mig skal hvert kne bøie sig, og hver tunge skal prise Gud. |
| Portuguese | Porque está escrito: Por minha vida, diz o Senhor, diante de mim se dobrará todo joelho, e toda língua louvará a Deus. |
| Rumanian | Fiindcq este scris: ,,Pe viaya Mea Mq jur, zice Domnul, cq orice genunchi se va pleca knaintea Mea, wi orice limbq va da slavq lui Dumnezeu.`` |
| Shuar | Nu asamtai Yus-Papinium tawai: "Wi nekas iwiaaku Pujá asan Ashí Winí tikishmatrurartatui. Tura Ashí "Yus asa tuke pénker Túriniaiti" Túrutiartatui" tawai." Tu aarmaiti. |
| Spanish | porque está escrito: Vivo yo, dice el Señor, que ante mí se doblará toda rodilla, y toda lengua confesará a Dios. |
| Swahili | Maana Maandiko yanasema: "Kama niishivyo, asema Bwana kila mtu atanipigia magoti, na kila mmoja atakiri kwamba mimi ni Mungu." |
| Swedish | Ty det är skrivet: "Så sant jag lever, säger Herren, för mig skola alla knän böja sig, och alla tungor skola prisa Gud." |
| Uma | Apa' hi rala Buku Tomoroli', Alata'ala mpo'uli' hewa toi: Mpu'u-mpu'u ku'uli': Butu dua tauna bate mowingkotu' hi Aku'. Pai' butu dua tauna kana mpangaku' ka'Aku' -na Alata'ala." Wae-mi ponguli' Pue'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bent": benthal, benthic, benthonic, benthos, benthoses, bentonite, bentonites, bentonitic, bents, bentwood, bentwoods. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bent": absorbent, adsorbent, decumbent, hellbent, immunosorbent, incumbent, lambent, nonabsorbent, nonincumbent, procumbent, radioallergosorbent, recumbent, sorbent, superabsorbent, superincumbent, unabsorbent, unbent. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bent": absorbents, adsorbents, debenture, debentures, immunosorbents, incumbents, lambently, nonabsorbents, nonincumbents, sorbents, subentries, subentry, superabsorbents, superincumbently. (additional references) | |
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"Bent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baint, banet, banit, bant, banty, beant, beena, beinst, beit, Benat, Benati, beng, benit, Benj, benk, benn, beno, Benotti, benr, benta, bente, benth, benti, Bentii, Bentti, bentum, benty, Benu, beny, benz, beot, bept, beqt, Bernat, bert, Bientz, Binot, bint, bitn, Blenyth, bnst, bont, Bonytt, bsent, bunto, bynt, ent, jent. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bent" (pronounced be"nt) |
| 3 | -e" n t | accent, ascent, assent, augment, Brent, cement, cent, circumvent, consent, Dement, Dent, descent, discontent, dissent, event, extent, ferment, gent, indent, intent, invent, Kent, lament, lent, malcontent, meant, misrepresent, misspent, nonevent, occident, outspent, overspent, pent, percent, prevent, reinvent, relent, rent, repent, represent, resent, scent, sent, spent, tent, underwent, unspent, vent, went. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-n-t" | |
-1 letter: ben, bet, neb, net, ten. | |
-2 letters: be, en, et, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-n-t" | |
+1 letter: bents, beton, blent, brent. | |
+2 letters: absent, bannet, banter, batmen, batten, beaten, beknot, bennet, betons, betony, bezant, binate, bitten, bonnet, brents, brunet, bunted, bunter, burnet, butane, butene, entomb, henbit, subnet, unbelt, unbent. | |
+3 letters: abeyant, abluent, absents, ambient, antbear, bannets, banquet, banteng, banters, banties, baronet, bartend, basinet, batsmen, battens, bayonet, beating, beatnik, beignet, beknots, belting, beneath, benefit, benempt, bennets, benthal, benthic, benthos, bepaint, besting, betaine, betaken, bethank, bethink, bethorn, betoken, betting, between, bezants, bezzant, bittern, bitumen, blanket, blintze, blunted, blunter, boatmen, boneset, boniest, bonnets, bornite, botonee, brunets, bunters, burnets, burthen, butanes, butenes, cabinet, ebonite, entombs, eobiont, henbits, lambent, niobate, noblest, notable, numbest, reboant, sorbent, stibine, subnets, subrent, subteen, subtend, subtone, sunbelt, tenable, tenably, tribune, tunable, turbine, unbated, unbelts, unblest. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Names: Frequency 15. Names: Derived from 16. Cities | 17. Expressions 18. Expressions: Internet 19. Translations: Modern 20. Translations: Ancient | 21. Bible Trace 22. Abbreviations 23. Acronyms 24. Derivations | 25. Rhymes 26. Anagrams 27. Bibliography |
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