DENT meaning: Small indentation caused by impact

We found 45 dictionaries that define the word dent:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

Dent, dent, dent-: Merriam-Webster.com
dent, dent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
dent, dent, dent-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
dent, dent, dent-: Collins English Dictionary
dent: Vocabulary.com
Dent, dent: Wordnik
dent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Dent, dent: Wiktionary
dent, dent-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
dent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
dent: Infoplease Dictionary
dent, dent, dent-: Dictionary.com
dent: Online Etymology Dictionary
dent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Dent (clocks and watches), Dent (conference), Dent (surname), Dent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Dent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
dent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
dent: Rhymezone
dent, dent (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
dent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
dent, dent-: MyWord.info
dent: Free Dictionary
dent: Mnemonic Dictionary
Dent, dent: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
dent, dent, dent-: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (4 matching dictionaries)

dent: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
dent-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)

dent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

dent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)

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GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
dent(o)-, dent-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)

baby names list (No longer online)
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dent: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)

Bryological (No longer online)
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Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

dent: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
The Dent, dent: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
▸ noun:  (figurative) A minor effect made upon something.
▸ noun:  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.
▸ noun:  (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
▸ verb:  (transitive) To impact something, producing a dent.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To develop a dent or dents.
▸ noun:  (engineering) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
▸ noun:  (weaving) A slot or a wire in a reed
▸ noun:  A village and civil parish in South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD7086).
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:

prick, notch, gouge, slit, incision, nick, scratch, indent, folding, headprint, more...

Opposite:

bulge, protrusion, bump, rise, swell

Types:

ding, more...

Phrases:

dent corn, Arthur Dent, dent blanche, dent dent, dent dent, more...

Adjectives:

small, big, little, significant, serious, large, deep, slight, real, huge, major

Colors:

silver, gray, charcoal, gunmetal, nickel, titanium, platinum

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