[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bend \bend\, v. t. 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, v. t., 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.
      1913 webster

   2. to turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.
      "bend thine ear to supplication." --milton.
      1913 webster

            towards coventry bend we our course.  --shak.
      1913 webster

            bending her eyes . . . upon her parent. --sir w.
                                                  scott.
      1913 webster

   3. to apply closely or with interest; to direct.
      1913 webster

            to bend his mind to any public business. --temple.
      1913 webster

            but when to mischief mortals bend their will.
                                                  --pope.
      1913 webster

   4. to cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.
      "except she bend her humor." --shak.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   to bend the brow, to knit the brow, as in deep thought or
      in anger; to scowl; to frown. --camden.
      1913 webster

   syn: to lean; stoop; deflect; bow; yield.
        1913 webster
see also:
bended bent bending bind bend to bend the brow 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bent \bent\,
   imp.  p. p. of bend.
   1913 webster
see also:
bend 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bent \bent\, a.  p. p.
   1. changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight;
      crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bent \bent\, n. see bend, n.  v.
   1. the state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a
      straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
      obs. --wilkins.
      1913 webster

   2. a declivity or slope, as of a hill. r. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   3. a leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind;
      inclination; disposition; purpose; aim. --shak.
      1913 webster

            with a native bent did good pursue.   --dryden.
      1913 webster

   4. particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
      1913 webster

            bents and turns of the matter.        --locke.
      1913 webster

   5. carp. a transverse frame of a framed structure.
      1913 webster

   6. tension; force of acting; energy; impetus. archaic
      1913 webster

            the full bent and stress of the soul. --norris.
      1913 webster

   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.
          1913 webster
see also:
bend bent bias inclination prepossession 

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bent \bent\, n. as. beonet; akin to ohg. pinuz, g. binse, rush,
   bent grass; of unknown origin.
   1. a reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
      1913 webster

            his spear a bent, both stiff and strong. --drayton.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   3. any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
      obs. --wright.
      1913 webster

            bowmen bickered upon the bent.        --chevy chase.
      1913 webster
see also:
agrostis agrostis vulgaris 

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

bend
     n 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
     v 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
see also:
crook turn bending curve fold crease 
plication flexure crimp bend dexter flex 
straighten deform twist unbend crouch 
stoop bow deflect turn away bent 

[7] : WordNet (r) 2.0

bent
     adj 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
        onp, dead setp, intent onp, out top
     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
     n 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
see also:
bent onp dead setp intent onp out top bended bowed 
inclined crumpled dented set bent grass 
bent-grass knack hang 

[8] : WordNet (r) 2.0

bent
     see bend
see also:
bend 

[9] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

[10] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

bent, nm
  zip codes: 88314

[11] : U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)

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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