pent

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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 :)
动词 v.
  1. simple past and past participle of pen; alternative form of penned. archaic,form-of,participle,past
形容词 adj.
  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; […]

词形变化

pents plural pents plural pents plural

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English pen
English -t
English pent
From pen + -t.
词源 2
Clipping of pentatonic.
词源 3
Clipping of pentacle or pentagram.
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