"dint" meaning in English

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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 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 30 2 9 14
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

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, {{m|enm|dent}} dent, {{m|enm|dunt|dünt}} dünt, {{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, {{m|sv|dunt}} dunt, {{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
  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
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 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, {{m|enm|dent}} dent, {{m|enm|dunt|dünt}} dünt, {{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, {{m|sv|dunt}} dunt, {{cog|is|dyntr|t=a dint}} Icelandic dyntr (“a dint”), {{doublet|en|dent}} Doublet of dent Head templates: {{en-verb}} dint (third-person singular simple present dints, present participle dinting, simple past and past participle dinted)
  1. To dent.
    Sense id: en-dint-en-verb-UcWhetsZ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: dunt
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

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        {
          "ref": "1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, xxxi",
          "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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        "(obsolete) A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight."
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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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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        }
      ],
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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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        "The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent."
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          "dent"
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      "rhymes": "-ɪnt"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "vdlǎbnatina ot udar",
      "sense": "a dent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "вдлъбнатина от удар"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "a dent",
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "důlek"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a dent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Delle"
    },
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      "sense": "a dent",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "ding"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a dent",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "wgięcie"
    },
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      "sense": "a dent",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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    },
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      "code": "ru",
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      "sense": "a dent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "вмя́тина"
    },
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}

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    "English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
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          "ref": "1854, W. Harrison Ainsworth, The Star-Chamber, Volume 2",
          "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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