bent: Meaning and Definition of

bent

1. curved; crooked: a bent bow; a bent stick.
2. determined; set; resolved (usually fol. by on): to be bent on buying a new car.
3. bent merchandise.
1. morally crooked; corrupt.
2. stolen:bent merchandise.
3. homosexual.

1. direction taken, as by one's interests; inclination: a bent for painting.
2. capacity of endurance: to work at the top of one's bent.
3. a transverse frame, as of a bridge or an aqueduct, designed to support either vertical or horizontal loads.
4. bent state or form; curvature.

bent

1. See
2. a stalk of bent grass.
3. (formerly) any stiff grass or sedge.
4. a moor; heath; tract of uncultivated, grassy land, used as a pasture or hunting preserve.