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Dent
name, noun, verb, slang
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD7086). countable, uncountable
- 2 A surname. countable, uncountable
Noun
- 1 A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
"The crash produced a dent in the left side of the car."
- 2 A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
- 3 an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) wordnet
- 4 A minor effect made upon something. figuratively
"to make a dent"
- 5 A slot or a wire in a reed
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- 6 an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening) wordnet
- 7 A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel.
- 8 a depression scratched or carved into a surface wordnet
- 9 A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action broadly, informal
"That purchase put a bit of a dent in my wallet."
Verb
- 1 To impact something, producing a dent. transitive
- 2 make a depression into wordnet
- 3 To develop a dent or dents. intransitive
"Copper is soft and dents easily."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English dent, dente, dint (“a blow; strike; dent”), from Old English dynt (“blow, strike, the mark or noise of a blow”), from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“a blow”). Akin to Old Norse dyntr (“dint”). Doublet of dint.
Etymology 2
From Middle English dent, dente, dint (“a blow; strike; dent”), from Old English dynt (“blow, strike, the mark or noise of a blow”), from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“a blow”). Akin to Old Norse dyntr (“dint”). Doublet of dint.
Etymology 3
From French dent, from Latin dēns, dentis (“tooth”). Doublet of dens and tooth.
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