STENTING

Etymology 1

Noun

stenting (plural stentings)

(medical) The surgical act of placing a stent, or supporting tube, into an artery, esophagus, or other passage or conduit in the body.

Verb

stenting

present participle of stent

Etymology 2

Noun

stenting (plural stentings)

(UK, dialect) An opening in a wall in a coal mine.

Anagrams

• nettings, snetting, tentings

Source: Wiktionary


Stent"ing, n.

Definition: An opening in a wall in a coal mine. [Written also stenton.] [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

STENT

Stent, v. t. [Obs. imp. Stente; obs. p. p. Stent.] Etym: [See Stint.]

Definition: To keep within limits; to restain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint. Then would he weep, he might not be stent. Chaucer. Yet n'ould she stent Her bitter railing and foul revilement. Spenser.

Stent, v. i.

Definition: To stint; to stop; to cease. And of this cry they would never stenten. Chaucer.

Stent, n.

Definition: An allotted portion; a stint. "Attain'd his journey's stent." Mir. for Mag.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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