Ostent vs Stent - What's the difference?
ostent | stent |
appearance; air; mien
manifestation; token; portent
A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.
* 2006
(archaic) An allotted portion; a stint.
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, year=1905
, year_published=2009
, edition=Reprint
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, author=Annie Hamilton Donnell
, title=Rebecca Marry
, chapter=The Hundred and Oneth
(archaic) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
* Spenser
(archaic) To stint; to stop; to cease.
As nouns the difference between ostent and stent
is that ostent is appearance; air; mien while stent is a slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.As a verb stent is
to keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.ostent
English
Noun
(en noun)- Use all the observance of civility / Like one well studied in a sad ostent / To please his grandam'' — Shakespeare, ''The Merchant of Venice
- We asked of God that some ostent might clear / Our cloudy business, who gave us sign. — Chapman.
- (Dryden)
stent
English
(wikipedia stent)Etymology 1
Unclear. Possibly named after dentist Charles Stent.Noun
(en noun)New York Times
- Tiny metal sleeves placed in arteries to keep blood flowing, stents have become such a popular quick fix for clogged coronary vessels that Americans will receive more than 1.5 million of them this year.
Etymology 2
See stint.Noun
(en noun)citation, genre=Fiction , publisher=Project Gutenberg , isbn= , page= , passage=The hundred-and-oneth stitch was my stent , and it's done. I'm not ever going to take the hundred and twoth. I've decided. }}
Verb
(en verb)- Yet n'ould she stent / Her bitter railing and foule revilement.