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Definition: Pent |
PentAdjective1. Closely confined. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Synonym: PentSynonym: shut up(p) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Memory | Adjective: remembering, remembered; Verb: mindful, reminiscential; retained in the memory; Verb: pent up in one's memory; fresh; green, green in remembrance; unforgotten, present to the mind; within one's memory; Noun: indelible; uppermost in one's thoughts; memorable; (important). |
Restraint | Adjective: restrained, constrained; imprisoned;Verb: pent up; jammed in, wedged in; under lock and key, under restraint, under hatches; in swaddling clothes; on parole; in custody, doing time; (prisoner); cohibitive; coactive; (compulsory). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pent |
| English words defined with "pent": Bottled, break, burst ♦ erupt ♦ Uppent. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pent": Debt ♦ understanding. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Pent" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Turkmen (admonition, lecture). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Ref. div. Pent. Lib.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Business | So while companies may have foregone major investments in energy efficient technologies during the crisis years, this could represent pent up demand as the recovery deepens and broadens. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave- driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it. Barlow S. Vode |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Pent" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 64.29% of the time. "Pent" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 64.29% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 28.57% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 7.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "pent" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Pent | Last name | 130 | 69,205 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "pent": pent shut uppredicate ♦ pent up. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "pent": pent-up, pent-up feelings, pent-up repressed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pent | 97 |
house.com pent | 12 |
pent house pet | 5 |
pent house magazine | 4 |
girl house pent | 4 |
apex pent shed | 4 |
gin pent | 3 |
50 pent | 3 |
comix pent | 2 |
air pent | 2 |
pent value | 2 |
pent roof | 2 |
pent plastic | 2 |
pent pet | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i mbyllur brenda. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حبيس (captive, close, confined). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | затворен (close, closed, confined, imprisoned, jailed, jugged, landlocked, locked, mediterranean, narrow, pent up, recluse, reticent, shut in), запрян (pent up), потиснат (heavy, melancholy, muffled, oppressed, sullen, under the weather). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 郁积 (pent-up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | uzavřený (cagey, cagy, closed, incestuous, recluse, retiring, select, taciturn, unapproachable, withdrawn), stísnìný (confined, glum, pent up), sevřený (constrained). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | opdæmmet efterspørgsel (pent-up demand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مقید (Bound, Conditional, Modal), محصور. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | patoutunut (pent-up, repressed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | réprimé (pent up), emprisonné. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Penthouse (penthouse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έγκλειστοσ (inmate, pent up), περιορισμένοσ (bound, confined, finite, poky, qualified, restricted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ס'ור ומסו'ר (pent up, tightly closed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bezárt (closed, detained, fast, locked, pent-up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | terkurung (pent up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tettoia a una falda, rinchiuso (pent up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 鬱滞 (congestion, pent-up feelings), 余憤 (pent-up anger, rage), うっ滞 (congestion, pent-up feelings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | うったい (congestion, pent-up feelings), よふ" (pent-up anger, rage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | doont stiagh (pent up), clea lhoobagh (pent roof). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | entpay encerrado (closed, inmate), adufa (lattice, shutter). (various references) zãvorit, închis (black, cagey, close, close-mouthed, coop, covered, dark, deep, deeply, dun, involved, red-hot, sad, shut, stuffy, sullen). (various references) заключенный (collegian, detenu, gaolbird, inmate, jailbird, jailed, prisoner), запертый (closed, locked). (various references) stešnjen (crowded, squeezed, straitened). (various references) reprimido (pent up, repressed), encerrado (bounded, included, pent up, shut in). (various references) instängd (cabined, confined, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, fuggy, fusty, shut up), inspärrad. (various references) kapatılmış (closed, confined, covered, pent up, shut), hapsedilmiş (confined, imprisoned, pent up), bastırılmış (appeased, bottled, bottled up, depressed, pent up, restrained, subdued). (various references) ув'язнений (confined, convict, imprisoned, lagger), замкнений (closed, shut in, withdrawn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pent": pentachlorophenol, pentachlorophenols, pentacle, pentacles, pentad, pentads, pentagon, pentagonal, pentagonally, pentagonals, pentagons, pentagram, pentagrams, pentahedra, pentahedral, pentahedron, pentahedrons, pentamerous, pentameter, pentameters, pentamidine, pentamidines, pentane, pentanes, pentangle, pentangles, pentanol, pentanols, pentapeptide, pentapeptides, pentaploid, pentaploidies, pentaploids, pentaploidy, pentarch, pentarchies, pentarchs, pentarchy, pentathlete, pentathletes, pentathlon, pentathlons, pentatonic, pentavalent, pentazocine, pentazocines, pentene, pentenes, penthouse, penthouses, pentlandite. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "pent": arpent, erumpent, forspent, misspent, outspent, overspent, perpent, repent, serpent, spent, unpent, unspent. (additional references) | |
Words containing "pent": arpents, carpenter, carpentered, carpentering, carpenters, carpentries, carpentry, epentheses, epenthesis, epenthetic, nepenthe, nepenthean, nepenthes, perpents, repentance, repentances, repentant, repentantly, repented, repenter, repenters, repenting, repents, serpentine, serpentinely, serpentines, serpents, thiopental, thiopentals, turpentine, turpentined, turpentines, turpentining, unnilpentium, unnilpentiums, unrepentant, unrepentantly, wapentake, wapentakes. (additional references) | |
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"Pent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ipent, opent, peent, peint, penat, pend, peneth, penf, peng, P'eng, penh, penit, penot, pente, penti, pentl, pento, pents, Pentti, penty, Pentz, pernt, petn, pient, plent, pont, prent, pynt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pent" (pronounced pe"nt) |
| 4 | p e" n t | misspent, outspent, overspent, repent, spent, unspent. |
| 3 | -e" n t | accent, ascent, assent, augment, bent, Brent, cement, cent, circumvent, consent, Dement, Dent, descent, discontent, dissent, event, extent, ferment, gent, indent, intent, invent, Kent, lament, lent, malcontent, meant, misrepresent, nonevent, occident, percent, prevent, reinvent, relent, rent, represent, resent, scent, sent, tent, underwent, vent, went. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-n-p-t" | |
-1 letter: net, pen, pet, ten. | |
-2 letters: en, et, ne, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-p-t" | |
+1 letter: inept, netop, paten, spent. | |
+2 letters: arpent, dipnet, enrapt, entrap, hapten, incept, instep, lepton, netops, panted, pantie, parent, patens, patent, patine, patten, peanut, pecten, pectin, pedant, pentad, pentyl, penult, petnap, pineta, pinite, pintle, pitmen, planet, platen, plenty, pointe, ponent, pontes, poteen, potent, potmen, pterin, punnet, punted, punter, repent, spinet, splent, sprent, tenpin, teopan, tiepin, trepan, tuneup, unkept, unpent, unstep, unwept, upsent. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 6E 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . -. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 006E 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50718086 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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