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Stented vs Stinted - What's the difference?

stented | stinted |

As verbs the difference between stented and stinted

is that stented is past tense of stent while stinted is past tense of stint.

As an adjective stinted is

constrained; restrained; confined.

stented

English

Verb

(head)
  • (stent)

    • Anagrams

    *

    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

    * ----

    stinted

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dated) Constrained; restrained; confined.
  • * c.1846-1848 , , Chapter 14: Paul grows more and more Old-fashioned, and goes Home for the Holidays,
    • Neither Mr Toots nor Mr Feeder could partake of this or any other snuff, even in the most stinted and moderate degree, without being seized with convulsions of sneezing.
  • * 1853 , Currer Bell ( , Chapter XXVI: A Burial,
    • Mr. Home himself offered me a handsome sum—thrice my present salary—if I would accept the office of companion to his daughter. I declined. I think I should have declined had I been poorer than I was, and with scantier fund of resource, more stinted narrowness of future prospect.
  • * 1890 , , Chapter XIII: The Color Line in New York,
    • Nevertheless, he has always had to pay higher rents than even these for the poorest and most stinted rooms.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (stint)

    • Anagrams

    * dentist