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Tenter vs Tenten - What's the difference?

tenter | tenten |

As nouns the difference between tenter and tenten

is that tenter is a framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried while tenten is (linguistics|colloquial) a diacritic () used with japanese kana to mark a consonant as voiced.

As a verb tenter

is to stretch cloth on such a framework.

tenter

English

(wikipedia tenter)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried.
  • One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
  • (engineering) A kind of governor, or regulating device.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To stretch cloth on such a framework.
  • To admit extension; to be stretchable.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Woollen cloth will tenter , linen scarcely.

    Derived terms

    * tenterhook

    Anagrams

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    tenten

    English

    (dakuten)

    Alternative forms

    * ten-ten * ten ten

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics, colloquial) A diacritic () used with Japanese kana to mark a consonant as voiced.
  • Synonyms

    * dakuten * nigori

    See also

    * handakuten * maru

    Anagrams

    * * ----