Wend vs Pend - What's the difference?
wend | pend |
(obsolete) To turn; change.
To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
* Surrey
(obsolete) To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.
(obsolete) To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish.
(obsolete, UK, legal) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.
(obsolete) To hang down.
(obsolete, Scotland) To arch over (something); to vault.
To hang; to depend.
* I. Taylor
(Scotland) An archway; especially, a vaulted passageway leading through a tenement-style building from the main street, giving access to the rear of the building or an internal courtyard.
To consider pending; to delay or postpone (something).
*1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 817:
*:The latest list of detainees would be pended and they would be allowed to return to their homes on a temporary basis.
(India) oil cake
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In transitive terms the difference between wend and pend
is that wend is to direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way while pend is to consider pending; to delay or postpone (something).As verbs the difference between wend and pend
is that wend is to turn; change while pend is to hang down.As nouns the difference between wend and pend
is that wend is a large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit while pend is an archway; especially, a vaulted passageway leading through a tenement-style building from the main street, giving access to the rear of the building or an internal courtyard.wend
English
Verb
- We wended our weary way westward.
- Great voyages to wend .
- (Sir Walter Raleigh)
Usage notes
The modern past tense of (m) is (m). Originally it was (m), similarly to pairs such as (m)/(m), (m)/(m), (m)/(m), (m)/(m), or (m)/(m). However, (m) was long ago co-opted as the past tense of (m) (replacing (etyl) (m)) and using it as the past tense of (m) is now considered archaic.Synonyms
* to betake oneselfNoun
(en noun)- (Burrill)
References
* ----pend
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- pending upon certain powerful motions