Meaning & use
Bents
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The plural of "bent," referring to natural inclinations, talents, or tendencies that a person possesses.
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Teachers try to nurture each student's individual bents rather than forcing one path on everyone.
His artistic and mathematical bents seemed, to his family, an unlikely combination.
A note on using this word
"Bents" can also refer, in a very different technical sense, to transverse structural frames in bridges and buildings, or to a type of wild grass; context determines which meaning applies.
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2. noun
A genus or type of grass, especially bent grass, common on lawns and golf greens.
The green was seeded with a fine, low-growing bent grass.
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