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Pillar vs Stent - What's the difference?

pillar | stent |

As nouns the difference between pillar and stent

is that pillar is (architecture) a large post, often used as supporting architecture 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 or stent can be (archaic) an allotted portion; a stint.

As verbs the difference between pillar and stent

is that pillar is to provide with pillars or added strength as if from pillars while stent is (archaic) to keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.

pillar

English

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Noun

(en noun)
  • (architecture) A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
  • Something resembling such a structure.
    • a pillar of smoke
  • An essential part of something that provides support.
    • He's a pillar of the community.
  • (Roman Catholic) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.
    • (Skelton)
  • The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.

    • Synonyms

    * column, sile

    Derived terms

    * A-pillar, B-pillar, C-pillar, D-pillar * earth pillar * from pillar to post * pillar box * pillar of the community * sun pillar

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To provide with pillars or added strength as if from pillars.
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    • See also

    * caterpillar

    External links

    * ("pillar" on Wikipedia) * * * *

    Anagrams

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    stent

    English

    (wikipedia stent)

    Etymology 1

    Unclear. Possibly named after dentist Charles Stent.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 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)
  • (archaic) An allotted portion; a stint.
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1905 , year_published=2009 , edition=Reprint , editor= , author=Annie Hamilton Donnell , title=Rebecca Marry , chapter=The Hundred and Oneth 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)
  • (archaic) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
  • * Spenser
    • Yet n'ould she stent / Her bitter railing and foule revilement.
  • (archaic) To stint; to stop; to cease.

    • Anagrams

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