Spent vs Stent - What's the difference?
spent | stent |
Consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.
(spend)
tense
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.
:* {{quote-book
, year=1905
, year_published=2009
, edition=Reprint
, editor=
, 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 verbs the difference between spent and stent
is that spent is (spend) while stent is (archaic) to keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.As an adjective spent
is consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.As a noun 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.spent
English
Adjective
(-)- a spent cartridge
Verb
(head)Statistics
* ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==Adjective
- en spent situasjon - a tense situation
References
* ----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.