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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bend \Bend\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Bended} or {Bent}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bending}.] [AS. bendan to bend, fr. bend a band, bond, fr. bindan to bind. See {Bind}, verb (used with an object), and cf. 3d & 4th {Bend}.]
1. To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.
2. To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline. ''Bend thine ear to supplication.'' --Milton.
Towards Coventry bend we our course. --Shak.
Bending her eyes . . . upon her parent. --Sir W. Scott.
3. To apply closely or with interest; to direct.
To bend his mind to any public business. --Temple.
But when to mischief mortals bend their will. --Pope.
4. To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue. ''Except she bend her humor.'' --Shak.
5. (Naut.) To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor. --Totten.
{To bend the brow}, to knit the brow, as in deep thought or in anger; to scowl; to frown. --Camden.
Syn: To lean; stoop; deflect; bow; yield.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bent \Bent\, imp. & p. p. of {Bend}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bent \Bent\, adjective & p. p.
1. Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.
2. Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bent \Bent\, noun [See {Bend}, noun & v.]
1. The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow. [Obs.] --Wilkins.
2. A declivity or slope, as of a hill. [R.] --Dryden.
3. A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim. --Shak.
With a native bent did good pursue. --Dryden.
4. Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
Bents and turns of the matter. --Locke.
5. (Carp.) A transverse frame of a framed structure.
6. Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus. [Archaic]
The full bent and stress of the soul. --Norris.
Syn: Predilection; turn.
Usage: {Bent}, {Bias}, {Inclination}, {Prepossession}. These words agree in describing a permanent influence upon the mind which tends to decide its actions. Bent denotes a fixed tendency of the mind in a given direction. It is the widest of these terms, and applies to the will, the intellect, and the affections, taken conjointly; as, the whole bent of his character was toward evil practices. Bias is literally a weight fixed on one side of a ball used in bowling, and causing it to swerve from a straight course. Used figuratively, bias applies particularly to the judgment, and denotes something which acts with a permanent force on the character through that faculty; as, the bias of early education, early habits, etc. Inclination is an excited state of desire or appetency; as, a strong inclination to the study of the law. Prepossession is a mingled state of feeling and opinion in respect to some person or subject, which has laid hold of and occupied the mind previous to inquiry. The word is commonly used in a good sense, an unfavorable impression of this kind being denominated a prejudice. ''Strong minds will be strongly bent, and usually labor under a strong bias; but there is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions.'' --Crabb.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bent \Bent\, noun [AS. beonet; akin to OHG. pinuz, G. binse, rush, bent grass; of unknown origin.]
1. A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
His spear a bent, both stiff and strong. --Drayton.
2. (Bot.) A grass of the genus {Agrostis}, esp. {Agrostis vulgaris}, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.
3. Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor. [Obs.] --Wright.
Bowmen bickered upon the bent. --Chevy Chase.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bend
noun
1: a circular segment of a curve; "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path" [syn: {crook}, {turn}]
2: movement that causes the formation of a curve [syn: {bending}]
3: curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.) [syn: {curve}]
4: an angular or rounded shape made by folding; "a fold in the napkin"; "a crease in his trousers"; "a plication on her blouse"; "a flexure of the colon"; "a bend of his elbow" [syn: {fold}, {crease}, {plication}, {flexure}, {crimp}]
5: a town in central Oregon at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range
6: diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left [syn: {bend dexter}]
verb
1: form a curve; "The stick does not bend" [syn: {flex}] [ant: {straighten}]
2: change direction; "The road bends"
3: cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form; "bend the rod"; "twist the dough into a braid"; "the strong man could turn an iron bar" [syn: {flex}, {deform}, {twist}, {turn}] [ant: {unbend}]
4: bend one's back forward from the waist on down; "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse" [syn: {crouch}, {stoop}, {bow}]
5: turn from a straight course , fixed direction, or line of interest [syn: {deflect}, {turn away}]
6: bend a joint; "flex your wrists"; "bend your knees" [syn: {flex}] [also: {bent}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bent
adjective
1: 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" [syn: {bent on(p)}, {dead set(p)}, {intent on(p)}, {out to(p)}]
3: used of the back and knees; stooped; "on bended knee"; "with bent (or bended) back" [syn: {bended}]
4: used especially of the head or upper back; "a bent head and sloping shoulders" [syn: {bowed}, {inclined}]
5: of metal e.g.; "bent nails"; "a car with a crumpled front end"; "dented fenders" [syn: {crumpled}, {dented}]
noun
1: a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way; "the set of his mind was obvious" [syn: {set}]
2: grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens [syn: {bent grass}, {bent-grass}]
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" [syn: {knack}, {hang}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bent See {bend}
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
292 Moby Thesaurus words for "bent": V-shaped, Y-shaped, a thing for, ability, abnormal, affinity, afflicted, aim, akimbo, an ear for, an eye for, anamorphous, angular, animus, apt, aptitude, aptness, arched, arciform, askew, asymmetric, awry, azimuth, bag, bearing, bend, bias, billowing, billowy, boiled, bombed, boozy, bowed, canned, capacity for, cast, character, chosen kind, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, conatus, conduciveness, constitution, contorted, cornered, corrupt, corrupted, course, crazy, crocked, crocko, crook, crooked, crotched, crumpled, crunched, cup of tea, current, curvaceous, curvate, curvated, curve, curved, curvesome, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, curving, curvy, decided, decisive, deflected, delight, determined, deviant, deviative, diathesis, direction, direction line, dishonest, disposed, disposition, dispositioned, distorted, drift, druthers, eagerness, eccentricity, elevated, faculty, fancy, fascination, favor, favoritism, feeling for, felicity, flair, forejudgment, forked, fried, fuddled, furcal, furcate, geniculate, geniculated, genius, genius for, geosynclinal, gift, gift for, given, grain, half-seas over, head, heading, helmsmanship, high, hooked, idiosyncrasy, illegal, illuminated, in the mood, inclination, inclined, inclining, incurvate, incurvated, incurved, incurving, individualism, innate aptitude, intent, irregular, jagged, jaundice, jaundiced eye, kidney, knack, knee-shaped, labyrinthine, lay, leaning, liability, lie, likely, liking, line, line of direction, line of march, lit, lit up, loaded, lopsided, lubricated, lurch, lushy, make, makeup, mazy, meandering, mental set, mettle, mind, mind-set, minded, mold, mutual affinity, mutual attraction, muzzy, nature, navigation, nonsymmetric, nose, oiled, one-sided, one-sidedness, organized, orientation, partialism, partiality, particular choice, partisanship, peculiar, penchant, personal choice, perverse, perverted, pickled, pie-eyed, piloting, pissed, pissy-eyed, plastered, point, pointed, polluted, potted, preconception, predilection, predisposed, predisposition, preference, prejudgment, prejudice, prepossession, probability, proclivity, prone, proneness, propensity, quarter, raddled, range, readiness, recurvate, recurvated, recurved, recurving, resolute, resolved, round, rounded, run, saw-toothed, sawtooth, sensitivity to, serpentine, serrate, set, settled, sharp, sharp-cornered, sheer, shellacked, sinuous, skew, skunk-drunk, slant, slue, smashed, soaked, soft spot, soused, sprung, squiffy, stamp, steerage, steering, stewed, stinko, strain, strange, streak, stripe, style, susceptibility, swacked, swerve, sympathy, talent, tanked, taste, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, thing, tight, tortuous, track, trend, tropism, turn, turn for, turn of mind, twist, twisted, type, undetachment, undispassionateness, undulant, unsymmetric, veer, warp, warped, wavy, way, weakness, weird, willingness, wry, zigzag
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Bent, NM Zip code(s): 88314
From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:
Bent -- U.S. County in Colorado Population (2000): 5998 Housing Units (2000): 2366 Land area (2000): 1513.902869 sq. miles (3920.990264 sq. km) Water area (2000): 27.217750 sq. miles (70.493645 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1541.120619 sq. miles (3991.483909 sq. km) Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08 Location: 38.070366 N, 103.062997 W Headwords: Bent Bent, CO Bent County Bent County, CO
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