(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.
Crump
Definition:
(a.) Crooked; bent.
(a.) Hard or crusty; dry baked; as, a crump loaf.
Example Sentences:
(1) Crump said the family and its attorneys did not feel it was “appropriate” to get into the substance of Baden’s testimony.
(2) Benjamin Crump, the attorney representing Brown’s family, said in a statement: “The family of Michael Brown Jr will wait for official word from the Justice Department regarding whether or not any charges will be filed against the police officer who shot and killed him.” “The family won’t address speculation from anonymous sources,” he added.
(3) Crump urged authorities to conduct a swift and transparent investigation.
(4) This video shows in crystal-clear HD that the responding officers acted inappropriately and recklessly, both in how they handled the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice and the events that immediately followed,” said Benjamin Crump, a lawyer for the Rice family, who has represented the families of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.
(5) Between bursts of machine-gun fire and the crump of explosions – unmuffled in crisp mountain air – the starry sky above the Syrian frontier offers ethereal distraction.
(6) To the law enforcement officers who will be patrolling the streets, we would like to thank you in advance for not having a repeat of horrific encounters that took place in August,” said Benjamin Crump, an attorney for the Brown family.
(7) Then, following more mouth, another short one crumps the handle - they run two - before torso is offered to bouncer, it takes back and earns four.
(8) Crump said that the daughter of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, Dr Bernice King, had sent him a message that read: "Today is a defining moment for the status of my father's dream.
(9) Brown’s family has hired civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, the same lawyer who represented the family of Trayvon Martin.
(10) The multistage model of Armitage and Doll, as extended by Whittemore, Day and Brown, and Crump and Howe, is used to estimate the dose effect on the ordered stages of tumor development.
(11) And George Zimmerman is trying to have us believe that his life is so terrible now," Crump said on ABC's Good Morning America.
(12) John Crump, senior advisor on climate change, GRID-Arendal , Ottawa, Canada John works at Grid Polar Centre, which provides advice to UNEP and also leads a number of climate change projects, including Many Strong Voices.
(13) There is nothing written anywhere in the law that police officers are to be treated any differently from any other citizen … When there is probable cause you don’t have to have a grand jury, you can charge.” “All the witnesses say they didn’t see police officers attempt to perform CPR,” said Crump, adding: “They’re supposed to de-escalate, not escalate a situation, and everything you see in that video escalated the situation.” Tamir Rice is the youngest victim of three recent high-profile deaths at the hands of police in the US, none of which have resulted in disciplinary action.
(14) John Crump, senior advisor on climate change, GRID-Arendal , Ottawa, Canada Realise that we are part of the problem : We need to see ourselves as part of the problem as well as part of the solution.
(15) Kuyt's shoulder crumps right into the full back's coupon, who then falls awkwardly on his back.
(16) Benjamin Crump, the lawyer for the Brown family, described the new video as 'of paramount significance'.
(17) We want justice for our son.” Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, said: “No violence, no violence.” The couple was supported by their attorney, Benjamin Crump, who previously represented the parents of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old unarmed boy who was shot dead by a neighbourhood watch captain in 2012.
(18) These methods are similar to those proposed earlier by Farrar and Crump (1988, Fundam, Appl.
(19) Benjamin Crump, the lawyer for Brown's family, said both workers came forward and told the family their account of the shooting.
(20) Crump himself has gone on to represent the families of Brown and Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy shot dead by Cleveland police, whose case has also been taken up by the Black Lives Matter movement.