Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word DENT
DENT
Definitions of DENT
- A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
- 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.
- (figurative) A minor effect made upon something.
- (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
- (transitive) To impact something, producing a dent.
- (intransitive) To develop a dent or dents.
- (engineering) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
- (weaving) A slot or a wire in a reed
- A surname.
- A village and cpar in , Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England previously in, South Lakeland (OS grid ref SD7086).
Number of letters
4
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using DENT in a Sentence
- Sweet corn is picked when still immature (the milk stage) and prepared and eaten as a vegetable, rather than field corn, which is harvested when the kernels are dry and mature (dent stage).
- The town is now but a dent in the land; scarce of life with a scant 20–30 people and covered with kudzu.
- In Smithville, an SUV was lofted and thrown a half mile into the water tower, making a dent, before being carried even further downwind.
- On 27 August 1898, Hopkinson and three of his six children, John Gustave, Alice and Lina Evelyn, were killed in a mountaineering accident on the Petite Dent de Veisivi, Val d'Hérens, in the Pennine Alps, Switzerland.
- On 29 September 2014, the container ship Colombo Express was involved in a collision with the container ship Maersk Tanjong, and sustained a 20-metre (65 ft) dent to its left side and caused delays to traffic through the Suez Canal.
- The principal field corn varieties are dent corn, flint corn, flour corn (also known as soft corn) which includes blue corn (Zea mays amylacea), and waxy corn.
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