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Definition of Pent - 11 dictionary results

pent

1  [pent]
Use Pent in a Sentence
–verb
1. a pt. and pp. of pen 2 .
–adjective
2. shut in; confined.
Origin:
ptp. of late ME pend (now obs.), var. of pen 2 (v.); cf. spend

pent

2  [pent]
–noun
penthouse (def. 4).
Origin:
by shortening

Pent.

 
Pentecost.

pen

1  [pen] noun, verb, penned, pen⋅ning.
–noun
1. any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
2. a detachable metal penpoint, filled by dipping or with a quill; nib.
3. such a penpoint with its penholder.
4. fountain pen.
5. ball-point pen.
6. the pen as the instrument of writing or authorship: The pen is mightier than the sword.
7. a person's style or quality of writing: He writes with a witty, incisive pen.
8. a writer: I leave this story to abler pens.
9. the profession of writing: a master of the pen.
10. stylus (def. 3).
11. Ornithology.
a. a quill.
b. a pinfeather.
12. something resembling or suggesting a feather or quill.
13. Zoology. an internal, corneous or chitinous, feather-shaped structure in certain cephalopods, as the squid.
–verb (used with object)
14. to write with or as with a pen; put down in writing: to pen an essay.
15. to draw with or as with a pen: to pen a sketch.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME penne < OF penne pen, feather < LL penna, L: feather

Related forms:
penlike, adjective
penner, noun

pen

2  [pen] noun, verb, penned or pent, pen⋅ning.
–noun
1. a small enclosure for domestic animals.
2. animals so enclosed: We have a pen of twenty sheep.
3. an enclosure used for confinement or safekeeping: We have built several pens to hold our harvest of corn.
4. playpen.
5. bull pen.
6. a dock having a protective concrete structure overhead, used to service and repair submarines.
–verb (used with object)
7. to confine in or as in a pen.
Origin:
bef. 1000; (n.) ME penne, OE penn (in compounds); perh. akin to pin; (v.) ME pennen, deriv. of the n.

penta-

 
a combining form occurring in loanwords from Greek, meaning “five” (Pentateuch); on this model, used in the formation of compound words (pentavalent).
Also, especially before a vowel, pent-.

Origin:
< Gk pent-, penta-, comb. forms repr. pénte five

pent⋅house

  [pent-hous]
–noun, plural -hous⋅es  [-hou-ziz] .
1. an apartment or dwelling on the roof of a building, usually set back from the outer walls.
2. any specially designed apartment on an upper floor, esp. the top floor, of a building.
3. a structure on a roof for housing elevator machinery, a water tank, etc.
4. Also called pent, pen⋅tice  [pen-tis] . a shed with a sloping roof, or a sloping roof, projecting from a wall or the side of a building, as to shelter a door.
5. any rooflike shelter or overhanging part.
6. shed roof.
7. Court Tennis. a corridor having a slanted roof and projecting from three walls of the court.
Origin:
1520–30; alter. (by folk etymology) of ME pentis < OF apentiz, equiv. to apent ptp. of apendre to hang against (see appendant ) + -iz (F -is) < VL *-ātīcium, n. use of neut. of *-ātīcius, equiv. to L -āt(us) -ate 1 + -īcius adj. suffix

Related forms:
penthouselike, adjective
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pen 2   (pěn)   
n.  
    1. A fenced enclosure for animals.
    2. The animals kept in such an enclosure.
    3. Any of various enclosures, such as a bullpen or playpen, used for a variety of purposes.
  2. A repair dock for submarines.
tr.v.   penned or pent (pěnt), pen·ning, pens
To confine in or as if in a pen. See Synonyms at enclose.

[Middle English, from Old English penn.]
pent   (pěnt)   
v.  A past tense and a past participle of pen2.
adj.  Penned or shut up; closely confined.
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Pent

Pent\, p. p. or a. [From Pen, v. t.] Penned or shut up; confined; -- often with up.

Here in the body pent. --J. Montgomery.

No pent-up Utica contracts your powers. --J. M. Sewall.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : Pent
Spanish: de buena, *mala gana,
German: bereitwillig, *widerwillig,
Japanese: 快く
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pent 
"kept in, confined," c.1550, variant of penned, pp. of the verb from pen (2).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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