Stent vs. Stint

Stentnoun

A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.

Stentnoun

(archaic) An allotted portion; a stint.

Stentverb

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

Stentverb

(archaic) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.

Stentverb

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

Stentverb

To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.

Stentverb

To stint; to stop; to cease.

Stentnoun

An allotted portion; a stint.

Stentnoun

a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis

Stentnoun

a splint placed temporarily inside a duct, canal, or blood vessel to aid healing or relieve an obstruction.

Stentnoun

an impression or cast of a part or body cavity, used to maintain pressure so as to promote healing, especially of a skin graft.

Stentnoun

a substance used in dentistry for taking impressions of the teeth.

Stentnoun

an assessment of property made for purposes of taxation

Stentnoun

the amount or value assessed; a tax

Stentverb

assess and charge (a person or a community) for purposes of taxation

Stent

In medicine, a stent is a metal or plastic tube inserted into the lumen of an anatomic vessel or duct to keep the passageway open, and stenting is the placement of a stent. There is a wide variety of stents used for different purposes, from expandable coronary, vascular and biliary stents, to simple plastic stents used to allow the flow of urine between kidney and bladder.

Stintnoun

A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell.

Stintnoun

limit; bound; restraint; extent

Stintnoun

Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.

Stintnoun

Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.

Stintverb

To stop (an action); cease, desist.

Stintverb

To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).

Stintverb

(intransitive) To be sparing or mean.

Stintverb

(transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.

Stintverb

To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.

Stintverb

To impregnate successfully; to get with foal; said of mares.

Stintnoun

Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume.

Stintnoun

Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

Stintnoun

Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.

Stintverb

To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.

Stintverb

To put an end to; to stop.

Stintverb

To assign a certain (i. e., limited) task to (a person), upon the performance of which one is excused from further labor for the day or for a certain time; to stent.

Stintverb

To serve successfully; to get with foal; - said of mares.

Stintverb

To stop; to cease.

Stintnoun

an unbroken period of time during which you do something;

Stintnoun

smallest American sandpiper

Stintnoun

an individuals prescribed share of work;

Stintverb

subsist on a meager allowance;

Stintverb

supply sparingly and with restricted quantities;

Stintverb

supply a very ungenerous or inadequate amount of (something)

Stintverb

restrict (someone) in the amount of something, especially money, given or permitted

Stintverb

be very economical or mean about spending or providing something

Stintnoun

a person's fixed or allotted period of work

Stintnoun

limitation of supply or effort

Stintnoun

a small short-legged sandpiper of northern Eurasia and Alaska, with a brownish back and white underparts.

Stint

A stint is one of several very small waders in the paraphyletic assemblage – often separated in Erolia – which in North America are known as peeps. They are scolopacid waders much similar in ecomorphology to their distant relatives, the charadriid plovers.