DENTS

Noun

dents

plural of dent

Verb

dents

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dent

Anagrams

• 'tends, stend, tends

Proper noun

Dents

plural of Dent

Anagrams

• 'tends, stend, tends

Source: Wiktionary


DENT

Dent, n. Etym: [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.

Dent, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dented; p. pr. & vb. n. Denting.]

Definition: To make a dent upon; to indent. The houses dented with bullets. Macaulay.

Dent, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. dens, dentis, tooth. See Tooth.] (Mach.)

Definition: A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc. Knight.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

22 February 2025

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(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’


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