Dent
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English
Noun
Dent (plural Dents)- A shallow deformation in the surface of something produced by impact.
- The crash produced a dent in the left side of the car.
- (by extension, informal) The state of something's having been partially consumed.
- That purchase put a bit of a dent in my wallet.
- (by extension, informal) An effect, a change caused by some force.
- make a dent in
- 2011 Phil McNulty Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City
- Andy Carroll's first goals since his £35m move to Liverpool put a dent in Manchester City's Champions League hopes as they were emphatically swept aside at Anfield.
Verb
Dent (third-person singular simple present Dents, present participle Denting, simple past and past participle Dented)
- (transitive) To impact something, producing a dent.
- (intransitive) To develop a dent or dents.
- Copper is soft and dents easily.
Adjectives for Dent
sizable; slightest; permanent; cruel; hideous.
Thesaurus
alveolation, alveolus, baby tooth, bicuspid, boss, bucktooth, bump, canine, colophon, concavity, convexity, crown, cuspid, cutter, dactylogram, dactylograph, deciduous tooth, denticle, denticulation, dentil, dentition, depress, dimple, dint, dogtooth, embossment, engrave, excrescence, eyetooth, fang, fingerprint, footmark, footprint, footstep, fore tooth, fossil footprint, furrow, gagtooth, gang tooth, gold tooth, gouge, grinder, honeycomb, ichnite, ichnolite, impress, impression, imprint, incisor, indent, indentation, indention, indenture, lump, milk tooth, molar, notch, pad, paw print, pawmark, peg, permanent tooth, pimple, pit, pivot tooth, pock, pockmark, premolar, press in, print, pug, pugmark, punch, punch in, recess, scrivello, seal, set back, set in, sigil, signet, snag, snaggletooth, stamp, step, stud, sunken part, tamp, thumbmark, thumbprint, tooth, tush, tusk, vestige, wisdom tooth
Etymology
Middle English dent, dente, dint "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". More at dint.
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Catalan
Etymology
From Latin dente, the singular ablative of dēns.
Pronunciation
Noun
Dent f. (plural Dents)
French
Etymology
From Latin dente, the singular ablative of dēns.
Pronunciation
Noun
Dent f. (plural Dents)
Derived terms
- cure-dent
- dentaire
- dental
- dent-de-lion
- denté
- dentelé
- dentifrice
- dentiste
- dentition
- denture
- denturologie
- denturologue, denturologiste
- avoir une dent contre
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
dent
- third-person plural present active subjunctive of dō
Middle French
Noun
Dent f. (plural Dentz)
Descendants
- French: dent
Old French
Etymology
Late Latin *dente, Classical Latin dens
Pronunciation
- IPA: /dãnt/
- Rhymes: -ãnt
Noun
Dent m. (oblique plural denz, nominative singular denz, nominative plural dent)
Romansch
Etymology
From Latin dēns, dentem < Proto-Indo-European *h₃dénts, *h₃dónts.
Noun
Dent m. (plural Dents)
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