Stent vs Seent - What's the difference?
stent | seent |
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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, 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.
* 2008 , Tracy Price-Thompson, A Woman's Worth (ISBN 0345512618), page 6:
As verbs the difference between stent and seent
is that stent is (archaic) to keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint while seent is .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.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.
Anagrams
* ----seent
English
Verb
(head)- "And"—Skeeter glared at Casper with killer eyes—"I kin tell you sumpthin' too, Mistah White Boy. Skeeter don't scare, and Slim Willie don't neither! Whatever you seent' Slim do that night in Argle, you ain't ' seent shit."