different between decant vs decani

English

Etymology

From French décanter, from Medieval Latin d?canth?re, from d?- +? canthus (“beak of a cup or jug”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??kænt/
• Rhymes: -ænt

Verb

decant (third-person singular simple present decants, present participle decanting, simple past and past participle decanted)

1. (transitive) To pour off (a liquid) gently, so as not to disturb the sediment.
   • 1908, Michael Faraday, The Chemical History of a Candle

     After washing, the insoluble lime soap is decomposed with hot dilute sulphuric acid. The melted fatty acids thus rise as an oil to the surface, when they are decanted.

2. (transitive) To pour from one vessel into another.

   to decant wine

3. (archaic, intransitive) To flow.
   • 1900, Sabine Baring-Gould, A Book of Dartmoor

     Swincombe, formerly Swan-combe, runs to the north of the ridge, and has the sources of its river in the Fox Tor mires and near Childe's Tomb. It runs north-east, and then abruptly passes north to decant into the West Dart.

4. (science fiction) To remove a clone from its chamber, vat, or artificial womb.
5. To rehouse people while their buildings are being refurbished or rebuilt.

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Anagrams

• cadent, canted, dacent

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dec?n? (“of the dean”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??ke?na?/

Adjective

decani (not comparable)

1. (church architecture) Of the side of the chancel, apse, altar or choir on which the dean's stall is placed (the right hand side to a person facing the altar); decanal.
   • 1934, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors

     You want a few more daffs on the decani side […]

   • 1988, Gordon Paine, Howard Swan, Five Centuries of Choral Music: Essays in Honor of Howard Swan (page 105)

     All the extant voices participate fully in the decani-cantoris split at that point, so one is tempted to assume that the tenors split into decani and cantoris parts as well.

Antonyms

• cantoris

Anagrams

• Caiden, caenid, candie, cnidae

Italian

Noun

decani m

1. plural of decano

Anagrams

• ancide
• canide
• decina
• inceda

Latin

Noun

dec?n?

1. nominative plural of dec?nus
2. genitive singular of dec?nus
3. vocative plural of dec?nus