Word Finder - bent

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To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.

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Don’t bend your knees.

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To become curved.

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Look at the trees bending in the wind.

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To cause to change direction.

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To change direction.

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The road bends to the right

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To be inclined; to direct itself.

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(usually with "down") To stoop.

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He bent down to pick up the pieces.

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To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.

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To force to submit.

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They bent me to their will.

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To submit.

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I am bending to my desire to eat junk food.

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To apply to a task or purpose.

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He bent the company's resources to gaining market share.

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To apply oneself to a task or purpose.

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He bent to the goal of gaining market share.

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To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.

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To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.

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Bend the sail to the yard.

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To smoothly change the pitch of a note.

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You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure.

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To swing the body when rowing.

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An inclination or talent.

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He had a natural bent for painting.

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A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.

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His mind was of a technical bent.

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The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.

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the bent of a bow

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A declivity or slope, as of a hill.

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Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.

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A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.

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Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.

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(Of something that is usually straight) folded, dented

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Corrupt, dishonest

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Homosexual.

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Determined or insistent.

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He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.

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(Of a person) leading a life of crime.

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Inaccurately aimed

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That shot was so bent it left the pitch.

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Suffering from the bends

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High from both marijuana and alcohol.

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Man, I am so bent right now!

I bent down to pat a dog but it was like he wasn't there.

She bent down and stared at him.

He bent over and kissed the top of her head.

As if bent on assisting her, the weather turned steamy when it entered the second week of June.

The cedar tree was bent over with the weight of a heavy load of wet snow.

He was a very old man, bent nearly double; but the queerest thing about him was his white hair and beard.

Again he stroked her cheek and bent his head.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

Rhyn had bent his cage again.

Again he bent his head and his lips questioned hers gently at first, and then with more emotion when she responded.

Jennifer said as she bent on hands and knees to look closer.

He bent his head down and brushed her lips softly with his.

Sirian bent his head to listen.

Prince Vasili approached first, and she kissed the bold forehead that bent over her hand and answered his question by saying that, on the contrary, she remembered him quite well.

All the powers of his soul, as of every soldier there, were unconsciously bent on avoiding the contemplation of the horrors of their situation.

She bent down, kissed him, and gave him a pat on his behind.

Harmony bent and lifted the dead man in a fireman's carry.

His real bent was towards literature.

In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke the tender limbs.

With his head bent, and his big feet spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abbe's plan chimerical.

When she dropped it, he bent.

He walked from Oak to Main Street yesterday though he didn't see me as his head was bent against the driving snow and I, a distance away.

He earned the confidence of the Porte by the cruel discipline he maintained in his own sanjak, and the regular flow of tribute and bribes which he directed to Constantinople; while he bent all his energies to extending his territories at the expense of his neighbours.

Still bent on obtaining Parga, he sent a special mission to London, backed by a letter from Sir Robert Liston, the British ambassador at Constantinople, calling the attention of the government to the pasha's supereminent qualities " and his services against the French.

When wood is required to be bent, however, this is often the method that is adopted to soften the material, so as to allow it to be bent easily.

Fries is stigmatized as one of the " ringleaders of shallowness " who were bent on substituting a fancied tie of enthusiasm and friendship for the established order of the state.

Sitting with his snuff-box before him, and his head bent down, he looked ill at ease, and kept turning the folios of his notes.

But the powers were bent upon the destruction of the Jesuits, and they had the pope at their mercy.

A sheet of metal set revolving at a high speed in a lathe is bent over into cup-shaped forms, with numerous mouldings, by a blunt hardened tool.

A thin sheet has for all practical purposes no thickness - that is, the geometrical pattern marked on it will develop the object required after it is bent.

All the works in sheet metal that are bent in one plane only are easily made.

The shapes of all polygonal and all cylindrical and conical forms are obtained by simple development - that is, the envelopments of these bodies are marked out on a flat plane, and when cut, are bent or folded to give the required envelopes.

In the former even the Pliocene beds are crumpled and folded, overfolded and overthrust in the most violent fashion; in the latter none but the oldest beds, certainly none so late as the Permian, have been crumpled or crushed - occasionally they are bent and frequently they are faulted, but the faults, though sometimes of considerable magnitude, are simple dislocations, unaccompanied by any serious disturbance of the strata.

The venture confirmed Lowell in his bent towards literature.

For it is easy to understand by the canons above mentioned that the greatest objects may appear exceedingly small, and the contrary, also that the most remote objects may appear just at hand, and the converse; for we can give such figures to transparent bodies, and dispose them in such order with respect to the eye and the objects, that the rays shall be refracted and bent towards any place we please, so that we shall see the object near at hand or at any distance under any angle we please.

Through the eyepiece of the bent 1 telescope E' another hour circle attached to the lower end of the polar axis can be seen; thus an assistant is able to direct the telescope by a handle at H to any desired hour angle.

An excellent feature is the short distance between the eye-piece and the declination axis, so that 1 In the bent telescope refracting prisms are employed at the corners to change the direction of the rays.

It is very hard and but slightly malleable and flexible, although in thin plates it may be bent several times without breaking.

Muller,3 that the Sabaeans had colonized Abyssinia as early as woo B.C. Other inscriptions copied by Bent at Aksum belong to the 4th century A.D.

Stiffness of Ropes.Ropes offer a resistance to being bent, and, when bent, to being straightened again, which arises from the mutual friction of their fibres.

It increases with the sectional area of the rope, and is inversely proportional to the radius of the curve into which it is bent.

The oral hood with its cirri has a special nerve supply and musculature by which the cirri can be either spread out, or bent inwards so that those of one side may interdigitate with those of the other, thus completely closing the entrance to the mouth.

Whiston is a striking example of the association of an entirely paradoxical bent of mind with proficiency in the exact sciences.

The dexterous Greeks humoured him to the top of his bent.

His real bent and choice were towards a pastoral cure in a country parish; but he remained in Oxford, acting first as a public examiner in the schools, then as a tutor in Oriel, till 1823.

Wool at Chihuahua, some of the inhabitants revolted, and in January 1847 assassinated the governor, Charles Bent, and a number of Americans and Mexicans who had taken office under the new regime.

In 860, however, he was at St Germain d'Auxerre, bent upon completing his studies, and in 872 he was back again at St Amand as the successor in the headmastership of the convent school of his uncle, to whom he had been reconciled in the meantime.

After leaving Westminster school, he was apprenticed, in 1802, to his brother, an apothecary, with the view of adopting the profession of medicine, but his bent was towards chemistry, a sound knowledge of which he acquired in his spare time.

On Palm Sunday 1282, in a time of peace, David suddenly attacked and burnt Hawarden Castle, whereupon all Wales was up in arms. Edward, greatly angered and now bent on putting an end for ever to the independence of the Principality, hastened into Wales; but whilst the king was campaigning in Gwynedd, Prince Llewelyn himself was slain in an obscure skirmish on the 11th of December 1282 at Cefn-ybedd, near Builth on the Wye, whither he had gone to rouse the people of Brycheiniog.

The older rocks are like those of Bengal, and the newer beds show no sign of either the Himalayan or the Burmese folding - on the top of the plateau they are nearly horizontal, but along the southern margin they are bent sharply downwards in a simple monoclinal fold.