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Pent
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- 1 Confined in, or as if in, a pen; imprisoned.
"As the old woman, with a gigantic and distorted image of herself thrown half upon the wall behind her, half upon the roof above, sat bending over the few loose bricks within which it was pent, on the damp hearth of the chimney—for there was no stove—she looked as if she were watching at some witch’s altar for a favourable token; […]"
- 1 closely confined wordnet
- 1 Confinement; concealment.
"There was a catch in my voice, thick as it was with the pent of unshed tears; had I let them flow they would have come out forty per cent proof."
- 2 A pentatonic scale. informal
"The major pent is the same minor pent pattern only shifted down 3 frets toward the nut. Like John B told me for Sunshine of your love. Play Bm and then Dm pent and it will sound good. He also pointed out that Bm pent includes the same exact notes as DM pent. So the idea is if the song is in D, try both minor and major pents and see how it works."
- 3 A pentacle or pentagram. informal
"[> What symbols mean the most to you? For instance, what do you wear around your neck and why?] Usually, a triquetra, although I have ankhs, pents and a spell-bottle on amber beads which I wear if I find it necessary to be *really* annoying :)"
- 4 A Pentium microprocessor or computer.
"I have encountered this problem on several computers from 486's to Pents. The only thing I have found to fix it is make sure the CD-Rom cache is set fairly high in the cdrom setup of win 95, and make sure to eliminate ALL unnecessary 16-bit drivers in your autoexec.bat and config.sys."
- 1 simple past and past participle of pen; alternative form of penned. archaic, form-of, participle, past
Etymology
From pen + -t.
From pen + -t.
From pen + -t.
Clipping of pentatonic.
Clipping of pentacle or pentagram.
Clipping of Pentium.
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