| 单词 | bent |
| 释义 | bent bent1 /bent/, adj. 1. curved; crooked: a bent bow; a bent stick. 2. determined; set; resolved (usually fol. by on): to be bent on buying a new car. 3. Chiefly Brit. Slang. a. morally crooked; corrupt. b. stolen: bent merchandise. c. homosexual. n. 4. direction taken, as by one's interests; inclination: a bent for painting. 5. capacity of endurance: to work at the top of one's bent. 6. Civ. Eng. a transverse frame, as of a bridge or an aqueduct, designed to support either vertical or horizontal loads. 7. Archaic. bent state or form; curvature. [1525-35; orig. ptp. of BEND1] Syn. 1. bowed, flexed. 2. fixed. 4. tendency, propensity, proclivity, predilection, penchant, partiality, leaning, bias. bent2 /bent/, n. 1. See bent grass. 2. a stalk of bent grass. 3. Scot. , Northern Eng. (formerly) any stiff grass or sedge. 4. Brit. Dial. a moor; heath; tract of uncultivated, grassy land, used as a pasture or hunting preserve. [1300-50; ME; earlier benet-, bunet- (in compounds), OE beonet-, beonot- (in place names); c. OHG binuz (cf. G Binse) rush] |
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