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Regent vs Reagent - What's the difference?

regent | reagent |

As nouns the difference between regent and reagent

is that regent is {{cx|now|_|rare|lang=en}} A ruler while reagent is a compound or mixture of compounds used to treat materials, samples, other compounds or reactants in a laboratory or sometimes an industrial setting.

As an adjective regent

is ruling; governing; regnant.

As a proper noun Regent

is a city in North Dakota.

regent

English

(wikipedia regent)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who rules in place of the monarch, especially because the monarch is too young, absent, or disabled.
  • *1999 , (Philipp Blom), translating Geert Mak, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City , Vintage 2001, p. 139:
  • *:This perception, however, does no justice to the regents of the city of Amsterdam.

    • Related terms

    * regimen * regiment * * region * rector * rectum * rectangle * rectilinear

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Ruling; governing; regnant.
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • Some other active regent principle which we call the soul.
  • Exercising vicarious authority.
    • (Milton)

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    reagent

    English

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chemistry) A compound or mixture of compounds used to treat materials, samples, other compounds or reactants in a laboratory or sometimes an industrial setting.

    • Derived terms

    * Benedict's reagent * Brady's reagent * Edman's reagent * Ehrlich's reagent * Froehde reagent * Grignard reagent * Kovac's reagent * Liebermann reagent * Melzer's reagent * Molisch's reagent * Sanger's reagent * van Urk reagent

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    * (l), (l) Chemical reagents ----