bentとは

語源 1

From bend.

動詞

bent

1. simple past tense and past participle of bend

形容詞

bent (comparative benter または more bent, superlative bentest または most bent)

1. (Of something that is usually straight) folded, dented
2. (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly Britain) Homosexual.
3. Determined or insistent.

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

   They were bent on mischief.

   • 2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes ends up surrendering to formula”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     […] in the ape posse, bent on vengeance, traversing landscapes clothed in snow and bristling with California red fir and silver pine, spooking human stragglers, and running across fresh graves as they search for the nameless colonel and try to piece together why the humans are killing each other.

4. (Of a person) leading a life of crime.
5. (slang, soccer) inaccurately aimed

   That shot was so bent it left the pitch.

6. (colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends
7. (slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.

   Man, I am so bent right now!

同意語

• (folded): crooked
• (homosexual): queer

派生語

• bent as a nine-bob note

関連する語

• (determined): hell-bent

名詞

bent (複数形 bents)

1. An inclination or talent.

   He had a natural bent for painting.

2. A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.

   His mind was of a technical bent.

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

   the bent of a bow

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Wilkins to this entry?)

4. A declivity or slope, as of a hill.

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5. Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
   • John Locke

     bents and turns of the matter

6. (carpentry) A transverse frame of a framed structure.
7. Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
   • Norris

     the full bent and stress of the soul

同意語

• (an inclination または talent): disposition, predilection, proclivity, propensity, see also Thesaurus:predilection

語源 2

From Middle English bent, benet, from 古期英語 *beonet- (attested only in place-names かつ personal names), from Proto-Germanic *binutaz (“reed, rush”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old Saxon binitin (“made of reeds”), Old High German binuz (modern German Binse (“rush, reed”)).

名詞

bent (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 bents)

1. Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
   • Drayton

     His spear a bent, both stiff and strong.

   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes’, The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales, Folio Society 2005, p. 121:

     Gunga Dass gave me a double handful of dried bents which I thrust down the mouth of the lair to the right of his, and followed myself, feet foremost [...].

   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 9

     Clusters of strong flowers rose everywhere above the coarse tussocks of bent.

2. A grassy area, grassland.
   • The Ballad of Chevy Chase

     Bowmen bickered upon the bent.

3. The old dried stalks of grasses.

同意語

(grass): bentgrass