"dint" meaning in English

See dint in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Contraction

IPA: /dɪnt/ Audio: en-us-dint.ogg
Rhymes: -ɪnt Head templates: {{head|en|contraction}} dint
  1. Pronunciation spelling of didn’t. Tags: alt-of, contraction, pronunciation-spelling Alternative form of: didn’t
    Sense id: en-dint-en-contraction-CCRMYqao Categories (other): English pronunciation spellings, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 29 1 8 17 Disambiguation of Pages with 6 entries: 35 25 5 5 11 3 5 3 3 3 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 42 29 3 3 11 2 3 2 2 2 2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Noun

IPA: /dɪnt/ Audio: en-us-dint.ogg Forms: dints [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪnt Etymology: From Middle English dint, dent, dünt, from Old English dynt (“dint, blow, strike, stroke, bruise, stripe; the mark left by a blow; the sound or noise made by a blow, thud”), from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“a blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to strike, hit”). Cognate with Swedish dialectal dunt, Icelandic dyntr (“a dint”). Doublet of dent. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|dint}} Middle English dint, {{inh|en|ang|dynt|t=dint, blow, strike, stroke, bruise, stripe; the mark left by a blow; the sound or noise made by a blow, thud}} Old English dynt (“dint, blow, strike, stroke, bruise, stripe; the mark left by a blow; the sound or noise made by a blow, thud”), {{inh|en|gem-pro|*duntiz|t=a blow}} Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“a blow”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*dʰen-||to strike, hit}} Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to strike, hit”), {{cog|sv|-}} Swedish, {{cog|is|dyntr|t=a dint}} Icelandic dyntr (“a dint”), {{doublet|en|dent}} Doublet of dent Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} dint (countable and uncountable, plural dints)
  1. (obsolete) A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-dint-en-noun-nhkezH3y Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 78 6 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 58 10 31 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 55 18 28 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 71 8 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 52 24 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 62 10 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 74 6 20
  2. Force, power; especially in by dint of. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-dint-en-noun--HJA6eUY
  3. The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (a dent): вдлъбнатина от удар (vdlǎbnatina ot udar) [feminine] (Bulgarian), důlek [masculine] (Czech), Delle [feminine] (German), Abdruck [masculine] (German), ding [feminine] (Irish), wgięcie [neuter] (Polish), сле́д (sléd) [masculine] (Russian), вмя́тина (vmjátina) [feminine] (Russian), отпеча́ток (otpečátok) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-dint-en-noun-9FYTWqeY Disambiguation of 'a dent': 6 0 94
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: dunt Derived forms: by dint of, dintless
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /dɪnt/ Audio: en-us-dint.ogg Forms: dints [present, singular, third-person], dinting [participle, present], dinted [participle, past], dinted [past]
Rhymes: -ɪnt Etymology: From Middle English dinten, from the noun. Compare Old Norse dynta. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|dinten}} Middle English dinten, {{cog|non|dynta}} Old Norse dynta Head templates: {{en-verb}} dint (third-person singular simple present dints, present participle dinting, simple past and past participle dinted)
  1. To dent. Derived forms: undinted
    Sense id: en-dint-en-verb-UcWhetsZ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: dunt
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Between them cross-bows stood, and engines wrought / To cast a stone, a quarry, or a dart, // From whence, like thunder's dint, or lightnings new, / Against the bulwarks stones and lances flew."
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        "A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight."
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        "(obsolete) A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight."
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          "ref": "1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:",
          "text": "O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The dint of pity",
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          "ref": "1805, Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, section XVIII:",
          "text": "It was by dint of passing strength / That he moved the massy stone at length.",
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        "Force, power; especially in by dint of."
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          "ref": "1860, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Lancelot and Elaine”, in Idylls of the King:",
          "text": "and read the naked shield,[…] Of every dint a sword had beaten in it, / And every scratch a lance had made upon it",
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        },
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          "ref": "1717, John Dryden [et al.], “Book 10”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "His hands had made a dint, and hurt his maid; / Explored her limb by limb, and feared to find / So rude a gripe had left a livid mark behind.",
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        }
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        "The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent."
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      "roman": "vdlǎbnatina ot udar",
      "sense": "a dent",
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    "Pocket (service)"
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}

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          "text": "Your helmet was dinted in as if by a great shot.",
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          "ref": "1915, Jeffery Farnol, Beltane The Smith:",
          "text": "And, in that moment came one, fierce and wild of aspect, in dinted casque and rusty mail who stood and watched--ah God!",
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