bent

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /bɛnt/    美 /bɛnt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of various stiff or reedy grasses. countable,uncountable
    — His spear a bent, both stiff and strong.
  2. An inclination or talent.
    — He had a natural bent for painting.
  3. Bentgrass (Agrostis spp.). countable,uncountable
  4. A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
    — His mind was of a technical bent.
  5. A grassy area, grassland. countable,uncountable
    — c. 1500, The Ballad of Chevy Chase Bowmen bickered upon the bent.
  6. The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
    — the bent of a bow
  7. Old dried stalks of grasses. countable,uncountable
  8. A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
    — Beneath the lowering brow, and on a bent, / The temple stood of Mars armipotent
  9. Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
    — bents and turns of the matter
  10. A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.; Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
  11. A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.; Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
  12. Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
    — the full bent and stress of the soul
动词 v.
  1. simple past and past participle of bend form-of,participle,past
形容词 adj.
  1. Folded or dented out of its usual shape.
  2. Corrupt, dishonest. UK,colloquial
  3. Homosexual. UK,colloquial,derogatory
    — 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; inclined, set. with-on
    — He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.
  5. Annoyed; out of sorts; having a bee in one's bonnet.
    — Near-synonym: butthurt
  6. leading a life of crime.
  7. Inaccurately aimed. slang
    — That shot was so bent it left the pitch.
  8. Suffering from the bends. US,colloquial
  9. High from both marijuana and alcohol. slang
    — Man, I am so bent right now!

词形变化

benter comparative more bent comparative bentest superlative most bent superlative bents plural bents plural

词汇关系

近义词
predilection proclivity propensity
衍生词
bent as a butcher's hook bent as a nine-bob note bent as a two bob bentbill bent car bent copper bent edge bent fork bent function bent grass Bentley bentness bent on bent on a splice bent-side Bent Spear bentwood bowbent downbent get bent get bent out of shape hellbent hyperbent inbent nick-bent prebent semibent time-bent at the top of one's bent to the top of one's bent brown bent colonial bent common bent creeping bent rough bent

词源

词源 1
From Middle English bent-, preterite stem (as in bente, benten, etc.), and Middle English bent, ibent, ybent, past participle forms of Middle English benden (“to bend”). Equivalent to bend + -t.
词源 2
From Middle English bent, benet, from Old English *beonot (attested only in place-names and personal names), from Proto-West Germanic *binut (“reed, rush”), of uncertain origin.
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