different between ostent vs stent

English

Etymology 1

From Middle French ostenter (“to make an ostentatious display of”), or directly from its etymon Latin ostent?re, present active infinitive of ostent? (“to exhibit, present, show; to show off”), frequentative of ostend? (“to exhibit, show”), from ob- (prefix meaning ‘against; towards’) + tend? (“to extend, stretch; to distend”) (from Proto-Indo-European *tend- (“to extend, stretch”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??st?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??st?nt/
• Hyphenation: os?tent

Verb

ostent (third-person singular simple present ostents, present participle ostenting, simple past and past participle ostented)

1. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To make an ambitious display of; to exhibit or show boastingly; to ostentate.

Etymology 2

From Middle French ostente (“amazing or marvellous thing; prodigy, wonder”) or directly from its etymon Latin ostentum (“portent”), from ostendere, present active infinitive of ostend? (“to exhibit, show”); see further at etymology 1.

The plural form ostenta is from Latin ostenta.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??st?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??st?nt/
• Hyphenation: os?tent

Noun

ostent (plural ostents or ostenta)

1. (archaic, rare) A portent, a token.
   • Latinus, frighted with this dire ostent,
     For counsel to his father Faunus went,

Etymology 3

From Latin ostentus (“a display, exhibition, show”), from ostendere, present active infinitive of ostend? (“to exhibit, show”); see further at etymology 1.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??st?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??st?nt/, /?-/
• Hyphenation: os?tent

Noun

ostent (plural ostents)

1. (archaic, rare) A display, an exhibition; an appearance, a manifestation.
2. A boastful, ostentatious display or exhibition.

Etymology 4

Noun

ostent (plural ostents)

1. (obsolete) A minute (60 seconds).

Usage notes

• Distinguished in medieval times from the "minute" that was one tenth of an hour, or six modern minutes.

References

Anagrams

• Teston, Tetons, Totnes, notest, teston

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?nt/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /st?nt/
    • Homophone: stint
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

Unclear. Possibly named after dentist Charles Stent. The English surname is a variant of Stein.

Noun

stent (plural stents)

1. A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.

Derived terms

• intrastent
• microstent
• poststent
• stentectomy
• stented
• stentgraft
• stentless

Translations

Verb

stent (third-person singular simple present stents, present participle stenting, simple past and past participle stented)

1. (medicine) To insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.

Translations

Etymology 2

See stint.

Noun

stent (plural stents)

1. (archaic) An allotted portion; a stint.

Verb

stent (third-person singular simple present stents, present participle stenting, simple past and past participle stented)

1. (archaic) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
2. (archaic) To stint; to stop; to cease.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003) , “stent”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, New York City: Oxford University Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• Netts, netts, tents

Latin

Verb

stent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of st?

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??t/

Noun

stent m

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Spanish

Etymology

From English stent.

Noun

stent m (plural stents)

1. stent