dent

Meanings

1. A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
2. A minor effect made upon something.
3. 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.
4. A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action

1. To impact something, producing a dent.
2. To develop a dent or dents.

1. A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
2. A slot or a wire in a reed.

1. A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD7086).
2. A surname.

Etymology

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”). Doublet of dint.