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発音

• IPA: /stɛnt/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA: /stɪnt/
    • Homophone: stint
• 韻: -ɛnt

語源 1

Unclear. Possibly named after dentist Charles Stent. The English surname is a variant of Stein.

名詞

stent (plural stents)

1. 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 October 21, Barnaby J. Feder, “Doctors Rethink Widespread Use of Heart Stents”, in The 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.

派生語

動詞

stent (third-person singular simple present stents, present participle stenting, simple past and past participle stented)

1. (medicine) To insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.

語源 2

See stint.

名詞

stent (plural stents)

1. (archaic) An allotted portion; a stint.
   • 1905, Annie Hamilton Donnell, “The Hundred and Oneth”, in Rebecca Marry‎, Reprint edition (Fiction), Project Gutenberg, published 2009:

     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.

動詞

stent (third-person singular simple present stents, present participle stenting, simple past and past participle stented)

1. (archaic) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 11:

     Yet n'ould she stent / Her bitter railing and foule revilement.

2. (archaic) To stint; to stop; to cease.

派生語

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “stent”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

アナグラム

• Netts, netts, tents

動詞

stent

1. third-person singular present indicative of standan

動詞

stent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of stō