different between stent vs seent

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

Apparently seen with the past tense suffix -t.

Verb

seent

1. (dialectal, especially African-American Vernacular) simple past tense and past participle of see
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     "And"—Skeeter glared at Casper with killer eyes—"I kin tell you sumpthin' too, Mistah White Boy. Skeeter don't scare, and Slim Willie don't neither! Whatever you seent Slim do that night in Argle, you ain't seent shit."

Anagrams

• ESnet, Enets, NEETs, Tenes, enset, neets, senet, sente, steen, teens, tense

Estonian

Noun

seent

1. partitive singular of seen

Luxembourgish

Verb

seent

1. inflection of seenen:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person plural imperative