bents
SayBENTS/bɛnts/
- 1Plural of bent.
Their intellectual bents drew them toward very different careers.
The old barn's frame stands on five timber bents tied together by girts and summer beams.
Note
A regular plural, made with -s, that follows the countable meanings of the noun. Framers count a barn in bents, each one a cross-frame of its structure. A hillside can have several bents, or slopes, and people have bents in the sense of talents or leanings. Keep it apart from bends: as a verb form, bent never takes -s.
bents is a form of bent
bent, noun: A natural inclination or talent for a particular activity or subject. Full entry
- Forms
- bentbents plural
- Spelling
- bent → bents: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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