(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.
Gent
Definition:
(a.) Gentle; noble; of gentle birth.
(a.) Neat; pretty; fine; elegant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Days and Nights in the Forest , which began as a comedy about Calcuttan gents on safari for aboriginal villagers, before shading into something almost too dark for my comprehension.
(2) She concluded her speech with a message for the audience - perhaps all of us - perhaps some of us - perhaps one person in particular, a snowy haired gent from Queensland.
(3) A new albumin variant of a family in Rome has been studied and, in respect of CISMEL standards, it has been classified as "very fast type gent".
(4) The susceptibility patterns of clinical Gram-negative isolates were determined to cefotaxime (CTX) and desacetylcefotaxime (dCTX) alone and in combination with gentamicin (GENT) or tobramycin (TOB) by an agar dilution technique.
(5) The estimation of the variants' relative mobility at three pH allowed us to distinguish three fast-moving variants (Gent, Vanves, and Reading) and five slow-moving variants (Sondrio, Roma, Christchurch, Lille, and B) in the French population.
(6) Instead, he was re-imagined as a suave gent in a v-neck cashmere sweater, mixing drinks, listening to records, and appreciating the 'finer things in life', like jazz and beautiful women.
(7) While Gent’s performance appeared slightly more nervous at the end of the second half, the hosts maintained their lead until the final whistle.
(8) Mark Rylance was a perfect gent, David Oyelowo took my phone from me and took the picture repeatedly until he was satisfied and Ava DuVernay was just brilliant.
(9) I would describe her as … sheepish.” He later said: “Ms Cafferkey got through the screening area with what I would call as deception.” After Cafferkey tested positive for Ebola, Nick Gent, a doctor and deputy dead of PHE’s emergency response department, was drafted in to assess the efficacy of the screening process.
(10) The properties of these revertants suggest that reversion of double opal-mutants is effected by the activity of some gent-suppressor appeared in the phage genome.
(11) Following Bishop's withdrawal, the list of candidates is understood to include Sir Christopher Gent, the former Vodafone chief and non-executive chairman of GlaxoSmithKline; Sir Christopher Bland, the former BT chairman; the British Airways chairman Martin Broughton; and Niall FitzGerald, the former chief executive of Unilever and deputy chairman of Thomson Reuters.
(12) He would replace Sir Christopher Gent, the current chairman, who has indicated he intends to stand down at the end of 2015 after almost 10 years in the role at the pharmaceutical company, which is battling for its reputation in the midst of bribery allegations.
(13) Proper gent of radio and Junior Choice was a classic.
(14) Ladies, don your pantsuits, and gents, grab your red power ties: we're headed to Washington for the main event.
(15) Zenit lead on a maximum nine points after they won 3-1 at home to Lyon, with Gent and Lyon each on one point.
(16) What a gent x August 27, 2014 Sue Perkins (@sueperkins) All getting a little inflamed for my liking.
(17) Corporate governance codes mean Gent and Broughton would have to give up their chairmanships to take the post.
(18) The monster who had caused misery for thousands was the dapper gent serving him sweet tea, playing Cliff Richard records and teaching his grandchildren to care for injured animals.
(19) He was one of the very old-school London criminal gents.
(20) The dapper gent kicked off his career at 15 in Ernest Hemingway’s old haunt Chicote, before opening this cocktail lounge in 1992.