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Tented vs Stented - What's the difference?

tented | stented |

As verbs the difference between tented and stented

is that tented is past tense of tent while stented is past tense of stent.

As an adjective tented

is covered with tents.

tented

English

Verb

(head)
  • (tent)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Covered with tents.

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    stented

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (stent)

    • 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.

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