Usually means: Small indentation caused by impact.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dent, dent, dent-: Merriam-Webster
  2. dent, dent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dent, dent, dent-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dent, dent, dent-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dent, dent: Wordnik
  7. dent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Dent, dent: Wiktionary
  9. dent, dent-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dent, dent, dent-: Dictionary.com
  13. dent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dent (clocks and watches), Dent (conference), Dent (surname), Dent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dent: Rhymezone
  19. dent, dent (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dent, dent-: MyWord.info
  22. dent: FreeDictionary.org
  23. dent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. dent, dent, dent-: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. dent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dent: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  3. dent-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  4. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

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  1. dent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dent: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. dent(o)-, dent-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
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  2. DENT: Acronym Finder
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  4. dent: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
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Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dent: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Dent, dent: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
noun:  (figurative) A minor effect made upon something.
noun:  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.
noun:  (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
verb:  (transitive) To impact something, producing a dent.
verb:  (intransitive) To develop a dent or dents.
noun:  (engineering) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
noun:  (weaving) A slot or a wire in a reed
noun:  A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD7086).
noun:  A surname.

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