dentとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) enPR: dĕnt, IPA^(key): /dɛnt/
• 韻: -ɛnt

語源 1

From Middle English dent, dente, dint (“a blow; strike; dent”), from 古期英語 dynt (“blow, strike, the mark または noise of a blow”), from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“a blow”). Akin to Old Norse dyntr (“dint”). More at dint.

名詞

dent (複数形 dents)

1. A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.

   The crash produced a dent in the left side of the car.

2. 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.
3. (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

   That purchase put a bit of a dent in my wallet.

   • 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Andy Carroll's first goals since his £35m move to Liverpool put a dent in Manchester City's Champions League hopes as they were emphatically swept aside at Anfield.

派生語

• dent corn

動詞

dent (三人称単数 現在形 dents, 現在分詞 denting, 過去形および過去分詞形 dented)

1. (transitive) To impact something, producing a dent.
2. (intransitive) To develop a dent or dents.

   Copper is soft and dents easily.

語源 2

From French, from Latin dēns, dentis (“tooth”). Doublet of dens and tooth.

名詞

dent (複数形 dents)

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

アナグラム

• 'tend, tend

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dent/, [d̪ɛn̪t̪]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dent/, [d̪ɛn̪t̪]

動詞

dent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of dō, "they may give"