Definition of dint in English:

dint

noun dɪntdɪnt

1A dent or hollow in a surface.
（表面的）凹痕，凹坑
the soft dints at the top of a coconut
椰子顶部的软坑。
Example sentencesExamples
- They jumped off at a building, which looked the same as all the other building, except this one had a few stains on the pavement and a dint in the wall.
- I'm not sure my massive century-old wardrobe can handle any more nicks and dints from ‘careful’ removalists.
- The dashboard was marked with dints and encrusted in a thin layer of dust and grime.
- I doubt if they had even cared if they knew I have a tyre-shaped dint in my leg when they ran me over with my car.
- It was steel, welded in placed and despite a few dints completely undamaged.
- The old gate of St. Pauls Church had a dint in it from a stone thrown during the fight, and this gate is still in the possession of a local farmer.
- Remove dints and scratches and chips from cars; detail your car inside and out and respray the car, for $1000.
- You can see the actual nerves inside the spinal column, plain as plain, and every tiny dint and imperfection on the vertebrae.
- Then she would don a thimble, put a dint in the cookie, and fill it with jam.
- Unfortunatley, the brand new, shiny 3 week old car now has a huge dint in the rear!
- Really, the race doesn't start until about lap 100, if we can get to lap 100 and the car's in good shape, hasn't had any dints or scratches, then we're in a good position to push to the end.
- The hat, I think the style was called fedora, had a dark band and a dint in the top, which my father would sometimes correct with a chopping action of his right hand.
Synonyms
dent, indentation, depression, dip, dimple, cleft, hollow, crater, pit
notch, nick, chip, mark, cut, gouge, gash
2archaic A blow or stroke, typically one made with a weapon in fighting.
〈古〉（多指在打斗中用武器进行的）打击；撞击
1. 2.1mass noun Force of attack; impact.
  冲击；影响
  I perceive you feel the dint of pity
  我觉得你感受到了同情的力量。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She'd make a dint in this unwieldy task by visiting schools to make contact with kids before they start dropping out.
  It has been proved in recent years that if the police focus resources on certain areas which are notorious for high levels of criminal activity a big dint can be made in the number of offences committed.
  A goal between the teams and many opportunities fell to Carlow who failed to make any further dints in a very strong and tight Erins Own defence.
  And we're talking a lot of meat: 20,000 animals a year before you make a dint on the population.

verb dɪntdɪnt

[with object]

Mark (a surface) with dents or hollows.
在（表面上）压出印痕（或凹痕）
the metal was dull and dinted
这块金属色泽黯淡而且有凹痕。
Example sentencesExamples
- She hit him as hard as she could but she could tell she hadn't even dinted his muscles of steal.
- Its windows were broken and boarded up, the large steel doors dinted and nearly hanging from their hinges, and the walls were covered in a mix of grime, offensive graffiti, and a number of other things they couldn't even identify.
- Around the walls dinted filing cabinets were cluttered haphazardly.
- Someone backed over my car today and dinted my hood and scratched my headlight up.
- He dropped my arm quickly letting me rub my now dinted side, which is going to bruise by morning.
Synonyms
make holes in, make hollows in, hole, dent, indent, depress, dint, pothole

Phrases

by dint of
依靠，凭借

By means of.
依靠，凭借
he had got to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work
他完全是通过艰苦工作达到今天这一步的。
Example sentencesExamples
- Creative work is done not by dint of will power, by some kind of mental exertion; instead, and paradoxically, it comes with the least effort, out of the blue.
- Trying new and different products by dint of what new and different labels show up on the bar has become second nature to them.
- She reaches this position by dint of sheer competence.
- But one day by dint of sheer chance and perverse good luck Vernon happened to be struck by a rather smashing train of thought.
- The song succeeds by dint of sheer density and passion.
Synonyms
by means of, by use of, by virtue of, on account of, as a result of, as a consequence of, owing to, by reason of, on grounds of, on the strength of, due to, thanks to, by, via

Origin

Old English dynt 'stroke with a weapon', reinforced in Middle English by the related Old Norse word dyntr; of unknown ultimate origin. Compare with dent.

The phrase by dint of ‘by means of’ has violent origins. A dint was originally a stroke or blow with a weapon, and by dint of meant ‘by force of’, as in by dint of sword, an obsolete way of saying ‘by force of arms’.

Rhymes

asquint, bint, clint, flint, glint, hint, imprint, lint, mint, misprint, print, quint, skint, splint, sprint, squint, stint, tint

Definition of dint in US English:

dint

noundɪntdint

1An impression or hollow in a surface.
（表面的）凹痕，凹坑
the soft dints at the top of a coconut
椰子顶部的软坑。
Example sentencesExamples
- You can see the actual nerves inside the spinal column, plain as plain, and every tiny dint and imperfection on the vertebrae.
- It was steel, welded in placed and despite a few dints completely undamaged.
- They jumped off at a building, which looked the same as all the other building, except this one had a few stains on the pavement and a dint in the wall.
- Unfortunatley, the brand new, shiny 3 week old car now has a huge dint in the rear!
- I doubt if they had even cared if they knew I have a tyre-shaped dint in my leg when they ran me over with my car.
- Remove dints and scratches and chips from cars; detail your car inside and out and respray the car, for $1000.
- The old gate of St. Pauls Church had a dint in it from a stone thrown during the fight, and this gate is still in the possession of a local farmer.
- Then she would don a thimble, put a dint in the cookie, and fill it with jam.
- The hat, I think the style was called fedora, had a dark band and a dint in the top, which my father would sometimes correct with a chopping action of his right hand.
- The dashboard was marked with dints and encrusted in a thin layer of dust and grime.
- Really, the race doesn't start until about lap 100, if we can get to lap 100 and the car's in good shape, hasn't had any dints or scratches, then we're in a good position to push to the end.
- I'm not sure my massive century-old wardrobe can handle any more nicks and dints from ‘careful’ removalists.
Synonyms
dent, indentation, depression, dip, dimple, cleft, hollow, crater, pit
2archaic A blow or stroke, typically one made with a weapon in fighting.
〈古〉（多指在打斗中用武器进行的）打击；撞击
1. 2.1 Force of attack; impact.
  冲击；影响
  I perceive you feel the dint of pity
  我觉得你感受到了同情的力量。
  Example sentencesExamples
  A goal between the teams and many opportunities fell to Carlow who failed to make any further dints in a very strong and tight Erins Own defence.
  She'd make a dint in this unwieldy task by visiting schools to make contact with kids before they start dropping out.
  And we're talking a lot of meat: 20,000 animals a year before you make a dint on the population.
  It has been proved in recent years that if the police focus resources on certain areas which are notorious for high levels of criminal activity a big dint can be made in the number of offences committed.

verbdɪntdint

[with object]

Mark (a surface) with impressions or hollows.
在（表面上）压出印痕（或凹痕）
the metal was dull and dinted
这块金属色泽黯淡而且有凹痕。
Example sentencesExamples
- Someone backed over my car today and dinted my hood and scratched my headlight up.
- She hit him as hard as she could but she could tell she hadn't even dinted his muscles of steal.
- He dropped my arm quickly letting me rub my now dinted side, which is going to bruise by morning.
- Around the walls dinted filing cabinets were cluttered haphazardly.
- Its windows were broken and boarded up, the large steel doors dinted and nearly hanging from their hinges, and the walls were covered in a mix of grime, offensive graffiti, and a number of other things they couldn't even identify.
Synonyms
make holes in, make hollows in, hole, dent, indent, depress, dint, pothole

Phrases

by dint of
依靠，凭借

By means of.
依靠，凭借
he had gotten to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work
他完全是通过艰苦工作达到今天这一步的。
Example sentencesExamples
- The song succeeds by dint of sheer density and passion.
- Creative work is done not by dint of will power, by some kind of mental exertion; instead, and paradoxically, it comes with the least effort, out of the blue.
- But one day by dint of sheer chance and perverse good luck Vernon happened to be struck by a rather smashing train of thought.
- She reaches this position by dint of sheer competence.
- Trying new and different products by dint of what new and different labels show up on the bar has become second nature to them.
Synonyms
by means of, by use of, by virtue of, on account of, as a result of, as a consequence of, owing to, by reason of, on grounds of, on the strength of, due to, thanks to, by, via

Origin

Old English dynt ‘stroke with a weapon’, reinforced in Middle English by the related Old Norse word dyntr; of unknown ultimate origin. Compare with dent.

单词	dint
释义	Definition of dint in English: dint noun dɪntdɪnt 1A dent or hollow in a surface. （表面的）凹痕，凹坑 the soft dints at the top of a coconut 椰子顶部的软坑。 Example sentencesExamples They jumped off at a building, which looked the same as all the other building, except this one had a few stains on the pavement and a dint in the wall. I'm not sure my massive century-old wardrobe can handle any more nicks and dints from ‘careful’ removalists. The dashboard was marked with dints and encrusted in a thin layer of dust and grime. I doubt if they had even cared if they knew I have a tyre-shaped dint in my leg when they ran me over with my car. It was steel, welded in placed and despite a few dints completely undamaged. The old gate of St. Pauls Church had a dint in it from a stone thrown during the fight, and this gate is still in the possession of a local farmer. Remove dints and scratches and chips from cars; detail your car inside and out and respray the car, for $1000. You can see the actual nerves inside the spinal column, plain as plain, and every tiny dint and imperfection on the vertebrae. Then she would don a thimble, put a dint in the cookie, and fill it with jam. Unfortunatley, the brand new, shiny 3 week old car now has a huge dint in the rear! Really, the race doesn't start until about lap 100, if we can get to lap 100 and the car's in good shape, hasn't had any dints or scratches, then we're in a good position to push to the end. The hat, I think the style was called fedora, had a dark band and a dint in the top, which my father would sometimes correct with a chopping action of his right hand. Synonyms dent, indentation, depression, dip, dimple, cleft, hollow, crater, pit notch, nick, chip, mark, cut, gouge, gash 2archaic A blow or stroke, typically one made with a weapon in fighting. 〈古〉（多指在打斗中用武器进行的）打击；撞击 2.1mass noun Force of attack; impact. 冲击；影响 I perceive you feel the dint of pity 我觉得你感受到了同情的力量。 Example sentencesExamples She'd make a dint in this unwieldy task by visiting schools to make contact with kids before they start dropping out. It has been proved in recent years that if the police focus resources on certain areas which are notorious for high levels of criminal activity a big dint can be made in the number of offences committed. A goal between the teams and many opportunities fell to Carlow who failed to make any further dints in a very strong and tight Erins Own defence. And we're talking a lot of meat: 20,000 animals a year before you make a dint on the population. verb dɪntdɪnt [with object] Mark (a surface) with dents or hollows. 在（表面上）压出印痕（或凹痕） the metal was dull and dinted 这块金属色泽黯淡而且有凹痕。 Example sentencesExamples She hit him as hard as she could but she could tell she hadn't even dinted his muscles of steal. Its windows were broken and boarded up, the large steel doors dinted and nearly hanging from their hinges, and the walls were covered in a mix of grime, offensive graffiti, and a number of other things they couldn't even identify. Around the walls dinted filing cabinets were cluttered haphazardly. Someone backed over my car today and dinted my hood and scratched my headlight up. He dropped my arm quickly letting me rub my now dinted side, which is going to bruise by morning. Synonyms make holes in, make hollows in, hole, dent, indent, depress, dint, pothole Phrases by dint of 依靠，凭借 By means of. 依靠，凭借 he had got to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work 他完全是通过艰苦工作达到今天这一步的。 Example sentencesExamples Creative work is done not by dint of will power, by some kind of mental exertion; instead, and paradoxically, it comes with the least effort, out of the blue. Trying new and different products by dint of what new and different labels show up on the bar has become second nature to them. She reaches this position by dint of sheer competence. But one day by dint of sheer chance and perverse good luck Vernon happened to be struck by a rather smashing train of thought. The song succeeds by dint of sheer density and passion. Synonyms by means of, by use of, by virtue of, on account of, as a result of, as a consequence of, owing to, by reason of, on grounds of, on the strength of, due to, thanks to, by, via Origin Old English dynt 'stroke with a weapon', reinforced in Middle English by the related Old Norse word dyntr; of unknown ultimate origin. Compare with dent. The phrase by dint of ‘by means of’ has violent origins. A dint was originally a stroke or blow with a weapon, and by dint of meant ‘by force of’, as in by dint of sword, an obsolete way of saying ‘by force of arms’. Rhymes asquint, bint, clint, flint, glint, hint, imprint, lint, mint, misprint, print, quint, skint, splint, sprint, squint, stint, tint noun.1 phr. Definition of dint in US English: dint noundɪntdint 1An impression or hollow in a surface. （表面的）凹痕，凹坑 the soft dints at the top of a coconut 椰子顶部的软坑。 Example sentencesExamples You can see the actual nerves inside the spinal column, plain as plain, and every tiny dint and imperfection on the vertebrae. It was steel, welded in placed and despite a few dints completely undamaged. They jumped off at a building, which looked the same as all the other building, except this one had a few stains on the pavement and a dint in the wall. Unfortunatley, the brand new, shiny 3 week old car now has a huge dint in the rear! I doubt if they had even cared if they knew I have a tyre-shaped dint in my leg when they ran me over with my car. Remove dints and scratches and chips from cars; detail your car inside and out and respray the car, for $1000. The old gate of St. Pauls Church had a dint in it from a stone thrown during the fight, and this gate is still in the possession of a local farmer. Then she would don a thimble, put a dint in the cookie, and fill it with jam. The hat, I think the style was called fedora, had a dark band and a dint in the top, which my father would sometimes correct with a chopping action of his right hand. The dashboard was marked with dints and encrusted in a thin layer of dust and grime. Really, the race doesn't start until about lap 100, if we can get to lap 100 and the car's in good shape, hasn't had any dints or scratches, then we're in a good position to push to the end. I'm not sure my massive century-old wardrobe can handle any more nicks and dints from ‘careful’ removalists. Synonyms dent, indentation, depression, dip, dimple, cleft, hollow, crater, pit 2archaic A blow or stroke, typically one made with a weapon in fighting. 〈古〉（多指在打斗中用武器进行的）打击；撞击 2.1 Force of attack; impact. 冲击；影响 I perceive you feel the dint of pity 我觉得你感受到了同情的力量。 Example sentencesExamples A goal between the teams and many opportunities fell to Carlow who failed to make any further dints in a very strong and tight Erins Own defence. She'd make a dint in this unwieldy task by visiting schools to make contact with kids before they start dropping out. And we're talking a lot of meat: 20,000 animals a year before you make a dint on the population. It has been proved in recent years that if the police focus resources on certain areas which are notorious for high levels of criminal activity a big dint can be made in the number of offences committed. verbdɪntdint [with object] Mark (a surface) with impressions or hollows. 在（表面上）压出印痕（或凹痕） the metal was dull and dinted 这块金属色泽黯淡而且有凹痕。 Example sentencesExamples Someone backed over my car today and dinted my hood and scratched my headlight up. She hit him as hard as she could but she could tell she hadn't even dinted his muscles of steal. He dropped my arm quickly letting me rub my now dinted side, which is going to bruise by morning. Around the walls dinted filing cabinets were cluttered haphazardly. Its windows were broken and boarded up, the large steel doors dinted and nearly hanging from their hinges, and the walls were covered in a mix of grime, offensive graffiti, and a number of other things they couldn't even identify. Synonyms make holes in, make hollows in, hole, dent, indent, depress, dint, pothole Phrases by dint of 依靠，凭借 By means of. 依靠，凭借 he had gotten to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work 他完全是通过艰苦工作达到今天这一步的。 Example sentencesExamples The song succeeds by dint of sheer density and passion. Creative work is done not by dint of will power, by some kind of mental exertion; instead, and paradoxically, it comes with the least effort, out of the blue. But one day by dint of sheer chance and perverse good luck Vernon happened to be struck by a rather smashing train of thought. She reaches this position by dint of sheer competence. Trying new and different products by dint of what new and different labels show up on the bar has become second nature to them. Synonyms by means of, by use of, by virtue of, on account of, as a result of, as a consequence of, owing to, by reason of, on grounds of, on the strength of, due to, thanks to, by, via Origin Old English dynt ‘stroke with a weapon’, reinforced in Middle English by the related Old Norse word dyntr; of unknown ultimate origin. Compare with dent. noun.1 phr.
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