dent

6 definitions found

dent - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Dent \Dent\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dented; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Denting.]
     To make a dent upon; to indent.
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           The houses dented with bullets.          --Macaulay.
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  Dent \Dent\, n. [F., fr. L. dens, dentis, tooth. See Tooth.]
     (Mach.)
     A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc. --Knight.
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  Dent \Dent\ (d[e^]nt), n. [A variant of Dint.]
     1. A stroke; a blow. [Obs.] "That dent of thunder."
        --Chaucer.
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     2. A slight depression, or small notch or hollow, made by a
        blow or by pressure; an indentation.
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              A blow that would have made a dent in a pound of
              butter.                               --De Quincey.
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dent - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  dent
      n 1: an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening); "it
           made a dent in my bank account"
      2: a depression scratched or carved into a surface [syn:
         incision, scratch, prick, slit, dent]
      3: an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) [syn: dent,
         ding, gouge, nick]
      v 1: make a depression into; "The bicycle dented my car" [syn:
           indent, dent]

dent - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Dent, MN (city, FIPS 15724)
    Location: 46.55212 N, 95.71716 W
    Population (1990): 177 (79 housing units)
    Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 56528
  Dent, OH (CDP, FIPS 21742)
    Location: 39.19375 N, 84.66091 W
    Population (1990): 6416 (2602 housing units)
    Area: 15.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

dent - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  95 Moby Thesaurus words for "dent":
     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