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Stent vs Suent - What's the difference?

stent | suent |

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.

As a verb stent

is to keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.

As an adjective suent is

uniformly or evenly distributed or spread; even; smooth.

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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    suent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Uniformly or evenly distributed or spread; even; smooth.
  • * 1854 , Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods , (1962) The New American Library, A Signet Classic, 16th printing, page 27:
    • Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its sommersets. ...Yet the Middlesex Cattle Show goes off here with éclat annually, as if all the joints of the agricultural machine were suent .
    (Webster 1913) ----