different between pend vs peed

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /p?nd/
• Homophone: penned
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /p?nd/
  • Homophone: pinned
• Rhymes: -?nd

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French pendre (“to hang”), from Late Latin pend?re, from Latin pend?re.

Verb

pend (third-person singular simple present pends, present participle pending, simple past and past participle pended)

1. (obsolete) To hang down; to cause something to hang down [15th-19th c.]
2. (obsolete, Scotland) To arch over (something); to vault. [15th-18th c.]
3. (obsolete) To hang in reliance on; to depend (on or upon); to be contingent on.
   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening

     pending upon certain powerful motives

Noun

pend (plural pends)

1. (Scotland) An archway; especially, a vaulted passageway leading through a tenement-style building from the main street, giving access to the rear of the building or an internal courtyard. [from 15th c.]

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:alley

Translations

Etymology 2

Compare pen (“to shut in”).

Verb

pend (third-person singular simple present pends, present participle pending, simple past and past participle pended)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To pen; to confine.
   • 1564, Erasmus, NicholasUdall, Apophthegms

     soche frowarde creatures as many women are, ought rather to be pended vp in a cage of iron

Etymology 3

Back-formation from pending.

Verb

pend (third-person singular simple present pends, present participle pending, simple past and past participle pended)

1. (transitive) To consider pending; to delay or postpone (something). [from 20th c.]
   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 817:

     The latest list of detainees would be pended and they would be allowed to return to their homes on a temporary basis.

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pend (uncountable)

1. (India) oil cake

Anagrams

• NDPE

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??/

Verb

pend

1. third-person singular present indicative of pendre

Scots

Noun

pend (plural pends)

1. An arch, vault.
2. A passageway between houses.

Spanish

Etymology

Shortening of pendejo

Noun

pend m or f (plural pends)

1. (slang) dumbass; retard; plonker

English

Verb

peed

1. simple past tense and past participle of pee

Anagrams

• deep

Spanish

Verb

peed

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of peer.