Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dent"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dent \Dent\, n. [A variant of {Dint}.]
1. A stroke; a blow. [Obs.] ``That dent of thunder.''
--Chaucer.
2. A slight depression, or small notch or hollow, made by a
blow or by pressure; an indentation.
A blow that would have made a dent in a pound of
butter. --De Quincey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dent \Dent\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dented}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Denting}.]
To make a dent upon; to indent.
The houses dented with bullets. --Macaulay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dent \Dent\, n. [F., fr. L. dens, dentis, tooth. See {Tooth}.]
(Mach.)
A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc. --Knight.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
3: an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) [syn: {gouge},
{nick}]
v : make a dent into [syn: {indent}]
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