pentn.¹

Brit.

/pɛnt/, U.S.

/pɛnt/

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pent adj.

Etymology: Apparently < pent adj. Compare earlier pend n.¹

Chiefly English regional (south-eastern).

1. A place in which water is pent up; a reservoir or enclosed pool. Cf. pend n.¹ 1, 2, pen n.² 2. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water

weirc897

dama1340

millpond1371

pound1535

pent1587

water-shut1613

tumbling-bay1724

backwater1788

pen pond1904

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1537/2 The harborough was become a pent, out of the which nothing could passe out or in.

1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 148 A Pent and Sluyce hath been made, which both open the mouth, and scowre the bottome of the hauen.

1674 London Gaz. No. 940/4 The Sea has broke into the Pent against the Bench, and above it towards Moots Bulwark [at Dover].

1721 J. Perry Acct. Stopping Daggenham Breach 123 At the..place called the upper Pent.

1775 L. Carter Diary 27 Sept. (1965) II. 952 I saw my mill..grinding excessive fast very fine meal with a bare inch of water in her hoisted gate, but full 5 foot 9 inches in her pent.

a1903 W. F. Shaw in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 470/2 Pent, the harbour at Dover is so called; and the Baptist Chapel near it is called Pentside Chapel.

1994 S. Johnston Making Math. Practice (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Cambr.) v. 218 A seafront area [at Dover]..was cleared and enclosed within earthen walls. This ‘pent’ was designed to retain both fresh and salt water at high tide and, by means of sluices, control its outflow at low tide.

†2. Probably: the state of being pent up; pressure. Cf. pend n.¹ 3. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [noun] > pressure > internal pressure likely to cause explosion

pent1674

bursting point1902

1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 72 In the middlemost, where the pent or bear of it beneath was nothing at all.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pentn.²

Brit.

/pɛnt/, U.S.

/pɛnt/

Origin: Of multiple origins. Apparently partly formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Apparently partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: penthouse n.; French pente.

Etymology: Apparently partly shortened < penthouse n., and partly (e.g. in quots. 1760, 1905) < French pente a sloping surface (1358 in Middle French in this sense), ultimately < an unattested post-classical Latin form *pendita , feminine of a variant (showing alteration after ē -stem verbs forming the perfect in -uī ; compare monitum n.) of the past participle of classical Latin pendere pend v.³

Now rare.

A sloping roof or covering, a penthouse. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > penthouse

penthousea1400

house-pentice1614

pent1754

marquise1891

1754 T. Pownall Jrnl. in Remembrancer (1778) 5 487/1 A pent over the base story, and shops, and a little slip of a window to light a closet by the side of the chimnies.

1760 H. Walpole Let. to Earl of Strafford 7 June Four chambers practised under the pent of the roof.

1883 ‘Holme Lee’ Loving & Serving I. ii. 22 The pent over it to throw off the rain.

1895 Jrnl. Royal Instit. Brit. Archit. 14 Mar. 350 It is well either to have a porch or pent.

1905 ‘Q’ Shining Ferry x. 118 A..pretty damsel of eighteen or twenty, in..a pink sun-bonnet, under the pent of which her dark hair curtained her temples.

1974 D. M. Jones Sleeping Lord 21 I was playing Greeks and Trojans with my brother, behind our byre, well under the pent.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pentadj.

Brit.

/pɛnt/, U.S.

/pɛnt/

Forms: 1500s pente, 1500s–1700s ypent (archaic), 1500s– pent.

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: English pent , pend v.²

Etymology: Apparently < pent, past participle of pend v.², although this form is not in fact attested until much later; compare also past participle forms of pen v.¹, and also later penned adj.³ With sense 3 compare slightly earlier pent-up adj.

1. Shut up within narrow limits; closely confined; held back under pressure; = penned adj.³ Also figurative.

a. In simple predicative use.In quots. 1774 and 1811: restricted in action, straitened.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [adjective] > closed or shut > shut up (of a place or room)

pent1542

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclosing or confining > [adjective] > enclosed or confined

upshetc1440

pinneda1450

close1489

pent1542

boxed?1548

impent1633

upshut1658

confined1796

shut-in1849

1542 Plowman's Prol. in Wks. G. Chaucer (new ed.) f. cxix He nas nat alway in cloystre ypent.

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. ix. 190 This people..pente within narowe boundes.

1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. v. 42 Albee such mayne extort scorns to be pent, in the clay walles of thatched Tenement.

1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. N4 Those powers be all or more or lesse ypent In this grosse life.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 445 Long in populous City pent .

1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 177 But who is he, in closet close y-pent.

1774 R. Morris Diary 21 Apr. in Radical Adventurer (1971) 167 She has so much the use of her arms as to sew, but seems a good deal pent to her body.

1802 Brookes' Gazetteer (ed. 12) at Lidford The bridge is thrown over a part of the river that is pent between two high rocks.

1811 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) II. 350 Since our American losses, we have been habitually pent to live.

1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. viii. 144 What bliss within this narrow den is pent.

1908 J. London Martin Eden xi. 96 All the beauty and wonder that had been pent for years behind his inarticulate lips was now pouring forth in a wild and virile flood.

1946 W. de la Mare Traveller 12 A dewy mist, in this huge hollow pent.

1980 L. Johnson in Islands 8 239 I pause, pent over words and the ordering of life.

b. In predicative use with in and up (adverbs).For examples of attributive use with in and up, see pent-in adj. and pent-up adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [adjective] > imprisoned

bounda1382

close1393

boundena1400

prisoneda1400

imprisoned1529

pent1554

encageda1616

prison-bound1816

1554 H. Hilarie Resurreccion of Masse sig. Aij^v Yea as a capon longe pent vp in the caue Exiled haue I bene miserably.

?1567 Merie Tales Master Skelton sig. Diii I haue ben pent in..at Westminster in prison.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxix. 188 Content to be pent vp within priuate dores.

a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) ii. 54 A River..is a running Stream, pent in on either side with Walls and Banks.

1657 J. Trapp Comm. Neh. vi. 10 He was thus (Anchoret-like) pent up.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 5 At London—I am pent up in frowzy lodgings, where there is not room enough to swing a cat.

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 69 Incommodiously pent in, And ill at ease behind.

1840 Bentley's Misc. 8 449 The money-grubber, pent up in a close city.

1898 H. G. Wells War of Worlds i. xvi. 161 [There] was a tumultuous stream of dirty, hurrying people, pent in between the villas on either side.

1967 P. J. Kavanagh On Way to Depot 25 The four city-men pent in by bruise-coloured mountains, sit staring in silence before them.

1992 Condé Nast Traveler Mar. 174/3 Little filtered down to..the native Niçois who stayed pent up in the Old Town.

c. In attributive use.

ΚΠ

1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge v. iii. sig. I3^v The States of Venice..Like high-swoln floods, driue down the muddie dammes Of pent allegeance.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 443 So the pent Vapours with a rumbling Sound Heave from below; and rend the hollow Ground.

1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 15 Ocean pent, and rising o'er the pile.

1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton King Arthur v. xxvii The Prophet mark'd the deep unclamorous vow Of the pent passion.

1852 M. Arnold Empedocles on Etna, & Other Poems i. ii. 182 In vain our pent wills fret.

1925 V. Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 164 The liberator of the pent egotism.

2002 San Antonio (Texas) Express-News (Nexis) 25 Nov. 10 d Pure joy, mixed with a healthy dose of pent disappointment.

†2. Holding or retaining something under pressure; distended or strained. Also figurative. Obsolete.In some quots. difficult to distinguish from sense 1c.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > full > full to bursting

big?1541

with child1548

swelling1594

pent1597

bursten?1624

strutted1648

burstened1697

stretcheda1711

bursting1847

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. i. 33 O cut my lace in sunder, that my pent heart, May haue some scope to beate.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 20 All parchments and such like bladders or skinnes are so pent and stretched with spirit and wind, that they burst withall.

1667 N. Fairfax in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 546 She..found some relief by it, but was after much pent in her wind.

1728 E. Young Love of Fame: Universal Passion (ed. 2) vi. 30 Thro' dreadful silence the pent heart might break.

1827 R. Emmons Fredoniad III. xxix. 258 Through my pent heart the blood-streams cease to roll.

3. Of a place, room, space, etc.: enclosing, confining. Also in extended use. Now rare.See also close-pent adj. at close adj. and adv. Compounds 2, pent-up adj. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [adjective]

pent1610

casinga1616

closinga1616

palingc1630

bosominga1851

enclosing1856

including1899

1610 J. Mason Turke ii. i. sig. D2 Mew not vp my soule, In the pent roome of conscience.

1822 C. Lamb Let. 20 Mar. (1935) II. 319 You don't know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls.. day after day.

1835 R. Browning Paracelsus iv. 142 The morn Shall break on my pent room, and dwindling lamp, And scatter'd papers.

1913 J. London Valley of Moon i. 4 Her long shriek rising in the pent room.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1587

n.²1754

adj.1542

单词	pent
释义	pentn.¹ Brit. /pɛnt/, U.S. /pɛnt/ Origin: Apparently formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pent adj. Etymology: Apparently < pent adj. Compare earlier pend n.¹ Chiefly English regional (south-eastern). 1. A place in which water is pent up; a reservoir or enclosed pool. Cf. pend n.¹ 1, 2, pen n.² 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water weirc897 dama1340 millpond1371 pound1535 pent1587 water-shut1613 tumbling-bay1724 backwater1788 pen pond1904 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1537/2 The harborough was become a pent, out of the which nothing could passe out or in. 1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 148 A Pent and Sluyce hath been made, which both open the mouth, and scowre the bottome of the hauen. 1674 London Gaz. No. 940/4 The Sea has broke into the Pent against the Bench, and above it towards Moots Bulwark [at Dover]. 1721 J. Perry Acct. Stopping Daggenham Breach 123 At the..place called the upper Pent. 1775 L. Carter Diary 27 Sept. (1965) II. 952 I saw my mill..grinding excessive fast very fine meal with a bare inch of water in her hoisted gate, but full 5 foot 9 inches in her pent. a1903 W. F. Shaw in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 470/2 Pent, the harbour at Dover is so called; and the Baptist Chapel near it is called Pentside Chapel. 1994 S. Johnston Making Math. Practice (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Cambr.) v. 218 A seafront area [at Dover]..was cleared and enclosed within earthen walls. This ‘pent’ was designed to retain both fresh and salt water at high tide and, by means of sluices, control its outflow at low tide. †2. Probably: the state of being pent up; pressure. Cf. pend n.¹ 3. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [noun] > pressure > internal pressure likely to cause explosion pent1674 bursting point1902 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 72 In the middlemost, where the pent or bear of it beneath was nothing at all. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pentn.² Brit. /pɛnt/, U.S. /pɛnt/ Origin: Of multiple origins. Apparently partly formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Apparently partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: penthouse n.; French pente. Etymology: Apparently partly shortened < penthouse n., and partly (e.g. in quots. 1760, 1905) < French pente a sloping surface (1358 in Middle French in this sense), ultimately < an unattested post-classical Latin form pendita , feminine of a variant (showing alteration after ē -stem verbs forming the perfect in -uī* ; compare monitum n.) of the past participle of classical Latin pendere pend v.³ Now rare. A sloping roof or covering, a penthouse. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > penthouse penthousea1400 house-pentice1614 pent1754 marquise1891 1754 T. Pownall Jrnl. in Remembrancer (1778) 5 487/1 A pent over the base story, and shops, and a little slip of a window to light a closet by the side of the chimnies. 1760 H. Walpole Let. to Earl of Strafford 7 June Four chambers practised under the pent of the roof. 1883 ‘Holme Lee’ Loving & Serving I. ii. 22 The pent over it to throw off the rain. 1895 Jrnl. Royal Instit. Brit. Archit. 14 Mar. 350 It is well either to have a porch or pent. 1905 ‘Q’ Shining Ferry x. 118 A..pretty damsel of eighteen or twenty, in..a pink sun-bonnet, under the pent of which her dark hair curtained her temples. 1974 D. M. Jones Sleeping Lord 21 I was playing Greeks and Trojans with my brother, behind our byre, well under the pent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pentadj. Brit. /pɛnt/, U.S. /pɛnt/ Forms: 1500s pente, 1500s–1700s ypent (archaic), 1500s– pent. Origin: Apparently formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: English pent , pend v.² Etymology: Apparently < pent, past participle of pend v.², although this form is not in fact attested until much later; compare also past participle forms of pen v.¹, and also later penned adj.³ With sense 3 compare slightly earlier pent-up adj. 1. Shut up within narrow limits; closely confined; held back under pressure; = penned adj.³ Also figurative. a. In simple predicative use.In quots. 1774 and 1811: restricted in action, straitened. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [adjective] > closed or shut > shut up (of a place or room) pent1542 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclosing or confining > [adjective] > enclosed or confined upshetc1440 pinneda1450 close1489 pent1542 boxed?1548 impent1633 upshut1658 confined1796 shut-in1849 1542 Plowman's Prol. in Wks. G. Chaucer (new ed.) f. cxix He nas nat alway in cloystre ypent. 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. ix. 190 This people..pente within narowe boundes. 1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. v. 42 Albee such mayne extort scorns to be pent, in the clay walles of thatched Tenement. 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. N4 Those powers be all or more or lesse ypent In this grosse life. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 445 Long in populous City pent . View more context for this quotation 1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 177 But who is he, in closet close y-pent. 1774 R. Morris Diary 21 Apr. in Radical Adventurer (1971) 167 She has so much the use of her arms as to sew, but seems a good deal pent to her body. 1802 Brookes' Gazetteer (ed. 12) at Lidford The bridge is thrown over a part of the river that is pent between two high rocks. 1811 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) II. 350 Since our American losses, we have been habitually pent to live. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. viii. 144 What bliss within this narrow den is pent. 1908 J. London Martin Eden xi. 96 All the beauty and wonder that had been pent for years behind his inarticulate lips was now pouring forth in a wild and virile flood. 1946 W. de la Mare Traveller 12 A dewy mist, in this huge hollow pent. 1980 L. Johnson in Islands 8 239 I pause, pent over words and the ordering of life. b. In predicative use with in and up (adverbs).For examples of attributive use with in and up, see pent-in adj. and pent-up adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [adjective] > imprisoned bounda1382 close1393 boundena1400 prisoneda1400 imprisoned1529 pent1554 encageda1616 prison-bound1816 1554 H. Hilarie Resurreccion of Masse sig. Aij^v Yea as a capon longe pent vp in the caue Exiled haue I bene miserably. ?1567 Merie Tales Master Skelton sig. Diii I haue ben pent in..at Westminster in prison. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxix. 188 Content to be pent vp within priuate dores. a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) ii. 54 A River..is a running Stream, pent in on either side with Walls and Banks. 1657 J. Trapp Comm. Neh. vi. 10 He was thus (Anchoret-like) pent up. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 5 At London—I am pent up in frowzy lodgings, where there is not room enough to swing a cat. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 69 Incommodiously pent in, And ill at ease behind. 1840 Bentley's Misc. 8 449 The money-grubber, pent up in a close city. 1898 H. G. Wells War of Worlds i. xvi. 161 [There] was a tumultuous stream of dirty, hurrying people, pent in between the villas on either side. 1967 P. J. Kavanagh On Way to Depot 25 The four city-men pent in by bruise-coloured mountains, sit staring in silence before them. 1992 Condé Nast Traveler Mar. 174/3 Little filtered down to..the native Niçois who stayed pent up in the Old Town. c. In attributive use. ΚΠ 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge v. iii. sig. I3^v The States of Venice..Like high-swoln floods, driue down the muddie dammes Of pent allegeance. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 443 So the pent Vapours with a rumbling Sound Heave from below; and rend the hollow Ground. 1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 15 Ocean pent, and rising o'er the pile. 1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton King Arthur v. xxvii The Prophet mark'd the deep unclamorous vow Of the pent passion. 1852 M. Arnold Empedocles on Etna, & Other Poems i. ii. 182 In vain our pent wills fret. 1925 V. Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 164 The liberator of the pent egotism. 2002 San Antonio (Texas) Express-News (Nexis) 25 Nov. 10 d Pure joy, mixed with a healthy dose of pent disappointment. †2. Holding or retaining something under pressure; distended or strained. Also figurative. Obsolete.In some quots. difficult to distinguish from sense 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > full > full to bursting big?1541 with child1548 swelling1594 pent1597 bursten?1624 strutted1648 burstened1697 stretcheda1711 bursting1847 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. i. 33 O cut my lace in sunder, that my pent heart, May haue some scope to beate. View more context for this quotation 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 20 All parchments and such like bladders or skinnes are so pent and stretched with spirit and wind, that they burst withall. 1667 N. Fairfax in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 546 She..found some relief by it, but was after much pent in her wind. 1728 E. Young Love of Fame: Universal Passion (ed. 2) vi. 30 Thro' dreadful silence the pent heart might break. 1827 R. Emmons Fredoniad III. xxix. 258 Through my pent heart the blood-streams cease to roll. 3. Of a place, room, space, etc.: enclosing, confining. Also in extended use. Now rare.See also close-pent adj. at close adj. and adv. Compounds 2, pent-up adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [adjective] pent1610 casinga1616 closinga1616 palingc1630 bosominga1851 enclosing1856 including1899 1610 J. Mason Turke ii. i. sig. D2 Mew not vp my soule, In the pent roome of conscience. 1822 C. Lamb Let. 20 Mar. (1935) II. 319 You don't know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls.. day after day. 1835 R. Browning Paracelsus iv. 142 The morn Shall break on my pent room, and dwindling lamp, And scatter'd papers. 1913 J. London Valley of Moon i. 4 Her long shriek rising in the pent room. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1587n.²1754adj.1542
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