(a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.
(a. & p. p.) 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.
(v.) The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
(v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
(v.) A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.
(v.) Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
(v.) A transverse frame of a framed structure.
(v.) Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
(n.) A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
(n.) A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.
(n.) Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of age of the ewe and pregnancy on concentrations of plasma calcium, phosphorus and magnesium and its relationship to the bent-leg syndrome in lambs, were investigated.
(2) The bent DNA has been localized to a 40-55 base pair (bp) segment and contains six (A)3-5 stretches (that is, six poly(A) stretches, three to five nucleotides in length) phased approximately every 10.5 bp.
(3) A definite correlation was established between the disease and the character of work and specificity of the working postures: a long stay in a bent position aggravated by the pressure of the apron strap weighing 8-10 kg on the lumbar part of the spine.
(4) He frequently refers to it, including in a recent television ad he ran in Iowa during which he reads to his two daughters from reimagined holiday stories with a conservative bent, such as the Hillary Clinton-targeting “The Grinch Who Lost Her Emails”.
(5) Four of the eight forms studied consisted of protonated and deprotonated N(pros) in the proximal imidazole ligand with linear and bent Fe-N-O structures.
(6) The helix diameter of the bent ends was 0.57 micron, and the helix pitch of the bent ends was 1.85 microns.
(7) There were no significant correlation coefficients between semen traits (yield, concentration and frequency of bent sperm) measured prior to the first insemination and fertility over a 12-week hatching period when the amount of semen inseminated per female was greater than the minimum (.025 cc.)
(8) Because for more than a year, he had bent the rules, constantly and persistently, in the face of warnings from his most senior civil servants?
(9) Because of a right-handed cell cylinder and left-handed periplasmic flagella along with bent ends having helix diameters greater than those of either the cell cylinder or periplasmic flagella, we conclude that there is a complex interaction of the periplasmic flagella and the cell cylinder to form the bent ends.
(10) Many of the acrylic resin and bent-wire temporary partial dentures in use today produce pathologic changes in the oral mucosa.
(11) Joe Cole made his full debut for Villa and Shay Given made his first appearance since January 2013, while Darren Bent started a game for the first time since the final day of the 2012-13 season.
(12) With an out-of-session Congress deadlocked over immigration reform and right-wing lawmakers hell-bent on “sealing the border”, the White House faces intense pressure to do something – anything – about immigration, after years of burying a civil rights crisis in a mire of political tone-deafness and jingoistic bombast.
(13) Also Darren Bent, 26, whose last 2 transfer values has been £26.5 million was also considered not good enough to be picked for their squad.
(14) The basic principle of frame assembly and application require that the wires are never bent to reach the support rings; instead, the Ilizarov hardware is used to build up to the wires from the rings.
(15) Unlike in France, Italy or Germany, where publishers banded together to create options to Amazon, British and American publishers still seem bent on competing with one another, even as Amazon eats into their finances.
(16) In L-starts the body was bent into an L or U shape and a recoil turn normally accompanied acceleration.
(17) He is also characterised as "the devoted husband of a bestselling novelist with a few of her own ideas about how fiction works"; a funny sentence construction that carries a faint whiff of husband stoically bent over his books as wife keeps popping up with pesky theories about realism.
(18) In the dithionite-reduced enzyme, the ring system is bent at the N(5) position.
(19) The former appears characteristic of circularly bent DNA and gives rise to a substantial retardation, the latter of bending across a knot or kink in the DNA chain associated with a relatively minor retardation relative to standards.
(20) To avoid migration of the wire, one end should be bent to form a walking-stick shape, and the arm should be immobilised.
Brent
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Brenne
(a.) Alt. of Brant
(imp. & p. p.) Burnt.
(n.) A brant. See Brant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brent crude surged by $1.05, or 1%, to $124.65 a barrel on Friday, while US crude jumped by 98 cents to $111.90, its highest level since September 2008.
(2) But it says the fall in the oil price, which for Brent crude is now below $50 a barrel , also presents opportunities to reform energy subsidies and taxes in both oil exporters and importers.
(3) Brent crude rebounded more than 7.5%, adding $2.23 to $31.48 a barrel, helped by comments from Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil producer.
(4) London's 120-store Brent Cross shopping centre was forced to close on Saturday due to "adverse weather conditions".
(5) O'Shea told the Brent & Kilburn Times : "I thought the behaviour of the immigration officers was heavy-handed and frightening.
(6) A verdict has not yet been returned on a judicial review of Brent council's proposed closures held in July.
(7) As a child growing up in the 1960s she loved comics and books including Elinor Brent-Dyer's Chalet School stories , but a career as a writer was not on her radar because she never came across black writers or characters.
(8) "For many of the communities in Brent, there is a strong culture of caring for extended family members on an informal basis.
(9) It’s a disease that can only be cured by police forces rooting it out from within.” The new prime minister, Theresa May, highlighted racial discrimination in the justice system as she took office last week, saying outside Downing Street : “If you’re black, you’re treated more harshly by the criminal justice system than if you’re white.” Kennedy-Macfoy was cleared of obstructing police after a two-day trial at Brent magistrates court.
(10) The biggest problem for BP has come from low crude prices , with Brent averaging $44 a barrel across the fourth quarter, compared with $77 for the same period 12 months earlier.
(11) The increase has been caused by a combination of factors: rises in the wholesale price of fuel have produced steady rises since the beginning of the year with Brent crude costing an 18-month high of about $86 (£56) a barrel, while tax rises since December 2008 have also added about 10p to the cost of a litre of fuel.
(12) Brent crude oil dropped $1 to $27.7 and US crude headed towards $26 a barrel.
(13) We demonstrate the special requirements of this team approach and also pay a tribute to Burt Brent, who has set the standards of modern ear reconstruction.
(14) Today, as the Brent field winds down its production, we are preparing for one of the world’s most complex engineering challenges.
(15) Better to have announced something, even if less than hoped for, than nothing at all...” A barrel of benchmark Brent crude was changing hands for less than $41 a barrel in New York on Monday night after Opec – heavily influenced by Saudi Arabia – did nothing about a market already seen as saturated.
(16) A quarter of a century after I was hanging around Brent Cross, I was one of the team at the New Economics Foundation on the Clone Town Britain campaign, a plaintive cry against everywhere looking the same.
(17) Brent crude declined 2.5% to $59.7 per barrel on Tuesday.
(18) Today, the Sunday Times reports that the Liberal Democrat children's minister Sarah Teather arranged a meeting between Gove and council leaders from her Brent constituency days before those schools won a reprieve from the cuts.
(19) China is the world’s biggest energy consumer, so signs of an economic slowdown helped push down the oil price last week: at one point benchmark Brent crude was below $43 per barrel compared with a peak of $115 last summer.
(20) London's 120-store Brent Cross shopping centre shut early on Saturday.