dent
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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.
Noun
dent (plural dents)
- 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.
- (figurative) A minor effect made upon something.
- 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.
- 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.
- (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.
Derived terms
Translations
shallow deformation in the surface
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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.
Derived terms
Translations
produce a dent
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Etymology 2
From French dent, from Latin dēns, dentis (“tooth”). Doublet of dens and tooth.
Noun
dent (plural dents)
- (engineering) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
- (weaving) A slot or a wire in a reed
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
dent f (plural dents)
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Further reading
- “dent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “dent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “dent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “dent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
dent f (plural dents) (ORB, broad)
References
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
dent f (plural dents)
Derived terms
- à belles dents
- à cheval donné on ne regarde pas les dents
- à pleines dents
- armé jusqu’aux dents
- avoir la dent
- avoir la dent creuse
- avoir les dents du fond qui baignent
- avoir les dents longues
- avoir les dents qui rayent le parquet
- avoir une dent contre
- brosse à dents
- coup de dent
- cure-dent
- dent de lait
- dent de sagesse
- dent-de-lion
- dentaire
- dental
- denté
- dentelé
- dentelle
- dentelure
- dentifrice
- dentiste
- dentition
- dents du bonheur
- denture
- denturologie
- denturologue, denturologiste
- en dents de scie
- faire ses dents
- fée des dents
- mentir comme un arracheur de dents
- montrer les dents
- ne pas desserrer les dents
- œil pour œil, dent pour dent
- parler entre ses dents
- pâte à dents
- poil aux dents
- quand les poules auront des dents
- rage de dent
- rage de dents
- se mettre sous la dent
- se mettre sous la dent
- serrer les dents
- sourire de toutes ses dents
- s’y casser les dents
- tigre à dents de sabre
Further reading
- “dent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /dent/, [d̪ɛn̪t̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /dent/, [d̪ɛn̪t̪]
Verb
dent
- third-person plural present active subjunctive of dō, "they may give"
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
dent m
Etymology 2
From Late Latin dē intrō.
Adverb
dent
References
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 108: “un dente marcio” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Arrighi, Cletto (1896) Dizionario milanese-italiano, col repertorio italiano-milanese: […] (in Italian), Milan: Hoepli, page 184
- Angiolini, Francesco (1897) Vocabolario milanese-italiano coi segni per la pronuncia (in Italian), pages 262-263
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Noun
dent
- Alternative form of dint
Etymology
From Old French dent m.
Noun
dent f (plural dens)
Descendants
- French: dent f
Etymology
From Old French dent, from Latin dēns, dentem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dénts, *h₃dónts.
Pronunciation
Noun
dent m (plural dents)
Derived terms
- brînge à dents (“toothbrush”)
Related terms
- denchive (“gum”)
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