bents
/bɛnts/
noun
- 1
An inclination or talent.
“He had a natural bent for painting.”
- 2
A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
“His mind was of a technical bent.”
- 3
The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
“the bent of a bow”
- 4
A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
- 5
Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
- 6
A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.
- 7
Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
noun
- 1
Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
- 2
A grassy area, grassland.
- 3
The old dried stalks of grasses.
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