Bent
adjective
Something that is not straight or normal shape.
The tip of the spoon was bent
Often appears as...
- bent out of shape
- bent double
adjective
Determined to achieve something.
He was bent on finishing the project by the weekend
Often appears as...
- bent on revenge
- bent on success
noun
A natural skill or interest in one particular area.
He has a bent for music
Often appears as...
- a bent for mathematics
- a bent for languages
verb
To make something become curved or angled.
She bent the paperclip into a circle
Often appears as...
- bent to the task
- bent to the will
adjective
Something that is not straight or normal shape.
The tip of the spoon was bent
Often appears as...
- bent out of shape
- bent double
adjective
Determined to achieve something.
He was bent on finishing the project by the weekend
Often appears as...
- bent on revenge
- bent on success
noun
A natural skill or interest in one particular area.
He has a bent for music
Often appears as...
- a bent for mathematics
- a bent for languages
verb
To make something become curved or angled.
She bent the paperclip into a circle
Often appears as...
- bent to the task
- bent to the will
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Pro Tip 1/2Physical Shape
Refers to the actual form of objects when they're not straight.
I dropped my rod, and now it's bent.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional State
Used metaphorically to express someone being upset or stressed.
She's really bent out of shape after the argument.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Shape
Refers to the actual form of objects when they're not straight.
I dropped my rod, and now it's bent.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional State
Used metaphorically to express someone being upset or stressed.
She's really bent out of shape after the argument.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Shape
Refers to the actual form of objects when they're not straight.
I dropped my rod, and now it's bent.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional State
Used metaphorically to express someone being upset or stressed.
She's really bent out of shape after the argument.
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Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...
makes parasites amazing. They're constantly inviting us to look at the natural world sideways, and to ask if the behaviors we're seeing, whether they're simple and obvious or baffling and puzzling, are not the results of individuals acting through their own accord but because they are being bent to the control of something else.
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Tim Laman & Ed Scholes:...
they threw around the bigger tree and bent them to get toward each other and then climbed over into the bigger tree then they climbed up and they did that again and they've got about you know in your hundred feet up where we were and helped me build this this beautiful blind where I was able to spend several
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Michael McDaniel: Cheap,...
was bent over backwards to help us with anything we needed. So now we had a hangar space to work in, and prototypes to demo with. So in one year, we've negotiated manufacturing agreements, been awarded one patent, filed our second patent, talked to multiple people, demoed this to FEMA
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BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...
normal hares whiskers also sit three times deeper in the skin where they attach to nerve endings telling the cat how far each one is being bent back and how quickly their whiskers are the same width as their body allowing cats to navigate the narrowest spaces
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How Do Cats Use Their...
Far thicker and longer than normal hairs whiskers also sit three times deeper in the skin where they attach to nerve endings, telling the cat how far each one is being bent back and how quickly. Their whiskers are the same width as their body
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Misha Glenny: Hire the...
but he didn't spend his days and nights bent over a computer, eating pizza, drinking coke and that sort of thing. He was out there on the town having a fab time enjoying the high life. And this is because hackers are only one element
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How to disrupt...
many others in a male-dominated world that's bent on reminding us and subtle Buscher ways of our place in society I also figured out that for most if not all of my lives I've been difficult I'm going to talk to
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How high can you count...
It depends on how dexterous you feel. If you can bend each finger just halfway, that gives us three different states - down, half bent, and raised. Now, we can count using a base-three positional system,
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Top 5 Animal Superpowers!...
far thicker and longer than normal hairs whiskers also sit three times deeper in the skin where they attach to nerve endings telling the cat how far each one is being bent back and how quickly their
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Inside the bizarre world...
Maybe. Maybe it will. But that has always been an aspiration. It is not a guarantee. The arc doesn't bend itself. It's not bent inevitably by some mysterious force. The real truth,
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Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...
makes parasites amazing. They're constantly inviting us to look at the natural world sideways, and to ask if the behaviors we're seeing, whether they're simple and obvious or baffling and puzzling, are not the results of individuals acting through their own accord but because they are being bent to the control of something else.
Video examples
Tim Laman & Ed Scholes:...
they threw around the bigger tree and bent them to get toward each other and then climbed over into the bigger tree then they climbed up and they did that again and they've got about you know in your hundred feet up where we were and helped me build this this beautiful blind where I was able to spend several
Video examples
Michael McDaniel: Cheap,...
was bent over backwards to help us with anything we needed. So now we had a hangar space to work in, and prototypes to demo with. So in one year, we've negotiated manufacturing agreements, been awarded one patent, filed our second patent, talked to multiple people, demoed this to FEMA
Video examples
BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...
normal hares whiskers also sit three times deeper in the skin where they attach to nerve endings telling the cat how far each one is being bent back and how quickly their whiskers are the same width as their body allowing cats to navigate the narrowest spaces
Video examples
How Do Cats Use Their...
Far thicker and longer than normal hairs whiskers also sit three times deeper in the skin where they attach to nerve endings, telling the cat how far each one is being bent back and how quickly. Their whiskers are the same width as their body
Video examples
Misha Glenny: Hire the...
but he didn't spend his days and nights bent over a computer, eating pizza, drinking coke and that sort of thing. He was out there on the town having a fab time enjoying the high life. And this is because hackers are only one element
Video examples
How to disrupt...
many others in a male-dominated world that's bent on reminding us and subtle Buscher ways of our place in society I also figured out that for most if not all of my lives I've been difficult I'm going to talk to
Video examples
How high can you count...
It depends on how dexterous you feel. If you can bend each finger just halfway, that gives us three different states - down, half bent, and raised. Now, we can count using a base-three positional system,
Video examples
Top 5 Animal Superpowers!...
far thicker and longer than normal hairs whiskers also sit three times deeper in the skin where they attach to nerve endings telling the cat how far each one is being bent back and how quickly their
Video examples
Inside the bizarre world...
Maybe. Maybe it will. But that has always been an aspiration. It is not a guarantee. The arc doesn't bend itself. It's not bent inevitably by some mysterious force. The real truth,
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Taylor Wilson
American Scientist
I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.
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Jeff Bridges
American Actor
Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.
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Frank Gaffney
American Writer
The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.
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Lee Ryan
British Musician
I'll do what I've got to do in my own career and my own life. For my own happiness. I'm not gonna be bent over a barrel and told what to do.
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Khalil Gibran
Lebanese Poet
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
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Origen
Theologian
Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.
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Joanne Kelly
Canadian Actress
I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.
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Angela Merkel
German Statesman
I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn't so easily bent.
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Edward Norton
American Actor
At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.
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Jess Phillips
British Politician
I've never bent the knee to anyone in my life.
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Taylor Wilson
American Scientist
I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.
Quote examples
Jeff Bridges
American Actor
Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.
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Frank Gaffney
American Writer
The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.
Quote examples
Lee Ryan
British Musician
I'll do what I've got to do in my own career and my own life. For my own happiness. I'm not gonna be bent over a barrel and told what to do.
Quote examples
Khalil Gibran
Lebanese Poet
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
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Origen
Theologian
Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.
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Joanne Kelly
Canadian Actress
I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.
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Angela Merkel
German Statesman
I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn't so easily bent.
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Edward Norton
American Actor
At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.
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Jess Phillips
British Politician
I've never bent the knee to anyone in my life.
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