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dent

See also: Dent, dént, and dënt

English edit

 
A dented shield.

Pronunciation edit

  • (UK, US) enPR: dĕnt, IPA(key): /dɛnt/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Etymology 1 edit

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.

Noun edit

dent (plural dents)

  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. (figurative) A minor effect made upon something.
    to make a dent
    • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 392:
      "Case Of You" (#67, 1980), a single on the Scotti Brothers label, was Frank's first chart dent.
    • 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 10, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:
      The transitoriness perhaps makes viral content the most representative form of culture in the twenty-first century: an era of vast quantities, deep specificity, and breakneck speed, where few individual artifacts, artworks, or conventions leave a dent in society or bend the curve of history.
  3. 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.
  4. (by extension, informal) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action
    That purchase put a bit of a dent in my wallet.
    • 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎[1]:
      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.
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Verb edit

dent (third-person singular simple present dents, present participle denting, simple past and past participle dented)

  1. (transitive) To impact something, producing a dent.
  2. (intransitive) To develop a dent or dents.
    Copper is soft and dents easily.
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Etymology 2 edit

From French dent, from Latin dēns, dentis (“tooth”). Doublet of dens and tooth.

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dent (plural dents)

  1. (engineering) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
  2. (weaving) A slot or a wire in a reed

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Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin dentem m.

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dent f (plural dents)

  1. (anatomy) tooth
  2. tooth (saw tooth)
  3. tooth (gear tooth)

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Franco-Provençal edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin dentem.

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dent m

  1. tooth

References edit

  • dent in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca

French edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Middle French dent f, with change of gender from Old French dent m, from Latin dentem m, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dénts, *h₃dónts.

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dent f (plural dents)

  1. tooth
  2. cog (tooth on a gear)

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dent

  1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of dō, "they may give"

Lombard edit

Etymology edit

Akin to dente, from Latin dens.

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dent ?

  1. tooth

Middle English edit

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dent

  1. Alternative form of dint

Middle French edit

Etymology edit

From Old French dent m.

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dent f (plural dens)

  1. tooth

Descendants edit

  • French: dent f

Norman edit

 
Norman Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nrf

Etymology edit

From Old French dent, from Latin dēns, dentem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dénts, *h₃dónts.

Pronunciation edit

  • Audio (Jersey)(file)

Noun edit

dent m (plural dents)

  1. (anatomy) tooth

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Occitan edit

Etymology edit

From Latin dentem m. Attested from the 12th century.[1] Compare Catalan dent f.

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  • Audio (Béarn)(file)

Noun edit

dent f (plural dents)

  1. tooth

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References edit

  1. ^ Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 185.

Old French edit

Etymology edit

From Latin dēns, dente m.

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Noun edit

dent oblique singular, m (oblique plural denz or dentz, nominative singular denz or dentz, nominative plural dent)

  1. (anatomy, of a comb) tooth

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Piedmontese edit

Etymology edit

From Latin dēns, dentem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dénts, *h₃dónts.

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dent m (plural dent)

  1. tooth

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Romansch edit

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Etymology edit

From Latin dēns, dentem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dénts, *h₃dónts.

Noun edit

dent m (plural dents)

  1. (anatomy, Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) tooth

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