Pent vs Pend - What's the difference?
pent | pend |
Confined in a pen, imprisoned.
(pen);
(obsolete) To hang down.
(obsolete, Scotland) To arch over (something); to vault.
To hang; to depend.
* I. Taylor
(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.
To consider pending; to delay or postpone (something).
*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.
(India) oil cake
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As verbs the difference between pent and pend
is that pent is past tense of pen; alternative form of nocap=1|lang=en while pend is to hang down.As an adjective pent
is confined in a pen, imprisoned.As a noun pend is
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.pent
English
Adjective
- ''My object all sublime
- ''I shall achieve in time —
- ''To let the punishment fit the crime —
- ''The punishment fit the crime;
- ''And make each prisoner pent
- ''Unwillingly represent
- ''A source of innocent merriment!
- Of innocent merriment!'' — W.S. Gilbert, '' .
Usage notes
Use of bare "pent", as in the Gilbert quotation above, has become less common over time. (Use of "pent up" or "pent in" remains about as common.)Verb
(head)See also
* -pent- * pent- * penta- * pent-upAnagrams
* ----pend
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- pending upon certain powerful motions
