bent vs mimic

bent

adj
  • Inaccurately aimed. 

  • Homosexual. 

  • Suffering from the bends. 

  • Corrupt, dishonest. 

  • Determined or insistent. 

  • Folded, dented. 

  • High from both marijuana and alcohol. 

  • leading a life of crime. 

noun
  • A predisposition to act or react in a particular way. 

  • The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity. 

  • Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus. 

  • Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course. 

  • Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams. 

  • Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing. 

  • Any of various stiff or reedy grasses. 

  • A grassy area, grassland. 

  • The old dried stalks of grasses. 

  • An inclination or talent. 

  • A declivity or slope, as of a hill. 

mimic

adj
  • Mock, pretended. 

  • Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry. 

  • Pertaining to mimicry; imitative. 

noun
  • An imitation. 

  • A comic who does impressions. 

  • An entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; see the great imitator. 

  • A mime. 

verb
  • To imitate, especially in order to ridicule. 

  • To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage. 

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