different between stent vs scaffold

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English scaffold, scaffalde, from Anglo-Norman schaffaut, eschaffaut, eschafal, eschaiphal, escadafaut (“platform to see a tournament”) (Modern French échafaud), from Old French es- (“indicating movement away or separation”) (from Latin ex- (“out, away”)) + chafaud, chafaut, chafault, caafau, caafaus, cadefaut (“scaffold for executing a criminal”), from Vulgar Latin *catafalcum (“viewing stage”), possibly from Ancient Greek ????- (kata-, “back; against”) + Latin -falicum (from fala, phala (“wooden gallery or tower; siege tower”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?skæf?ld/, /?skæf??ld/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?skæf?ld/, /?skæfld/
• Hyphenation: scaf?fold
• Rhymes: -æf?ld

Noun

scaffold (plural scaffolds)

1. A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
2. An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
3. An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.
4. (metalworking) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
5. (sciences) A structure that provides support for some other material.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

scaffold (third-person singular simple present scaffolds, present participle scaffolding, simple past and past participle scaffolded)

1. (transitive) To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.
2. (transitive) To sustain; to provide support for.
3. (transitive) To dispose of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform, as by some Native American tribes.

Translations

Further reading

• scaffold in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• scaffold in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• scaffold at OneLook Dictionary Search