dent

• (UK, US) enPR: dĕnt, IPA^(key): /dɛnt/
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

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”). More at dint.

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. 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.
3. (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:

     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.

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.

French, from Latin dens, dentis, tooth. See tooth.

dent (plural dents)

1. (engineering) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.

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2. (weaving) A slot or a wire in a reed

• tend

From Latin dentem, accusative of dēns.

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈdent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈden/

dent f (plural dents)

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

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

• IPA^(key): /dɑ̃/

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dent f (plural dents)

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

• “dent” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• tend

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dent/, [dɛnt]

dent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of dō

dent

1. Alternative form of dint

From Old French dent.

dent f (plural dens)

1. tooth

• French: dent

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

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dent m (plural dents)

1. (anatomy) tooth

• brînge à dents (“toothbrush”)

• denchive (“gum”)

From Latin dēns, dente

• IPA^(key): /dãnt/
• Rhymes: -ãnt

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

1. (anatomy, of a comb) tooth

• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) daint

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

dent m (plural dents)

1. (anatomy, Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) tooth

• pasta da dents (“toothpaste”)