different between dent vs blemish

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: d?nt, IPA^(key): /d?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

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

Noun

dent (plural dents)

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

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

Translations

Verb

dent (third-person singular simple present dents, present participle denting, simple past and past participle dented)

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

Translations

Etymology 2

French, from Latin dens, dentis, tooth. Doublet of tooth.

Noun

dent (plural dents)

1. (engineering) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.

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2. (weaving) A slot or a wire in a reed

Anagrams

• 'tend, tend

Catalan

Etymology

With change of gender from Latin dentem, accusative of d?ns m.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?dent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?den/

Noun

dent f (plural dents)

1. (anatomy) tooth
2. tooth (saw tooth)
3. tooth (gear tooth)

Derived terms

Related terms

• dentadura
• dental
• dentista

Further reading

• “dent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “dent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “dent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “dent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Middle French dent, with change of gender from Old French dent m, from Latin dentem, accusative of d?ns, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?dénts, *h?dónts.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??/
• Homophones: dam, dams, dans, dents

Noun

dent f (plural dents)

1. tooth
2. cog (tooth on a gear)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “dent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• tend

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dent/, [d??n?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dent/, [d??n?t?]

Verb

dent

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

Lombard

Etymology

From dente.

Noun

dent

1. tooth

Middle English

Noun

dent

1. Alternative form of dint

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French dent.

Noun

dent f (plural dens)

1. tooth

Descendants

• French: dent

Norman

Etymology

From Old French dent, from Latin d?ns, dentem, from Proto-Indo-European *h?dénts, *h?dónts.

Pronunciation

Noun

dent m (plural dents)

1. (anatomy) tooth

Derived terms

• brînge à dents (“toothbrush”)

Related terms

• denchive (“gum”)

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin dentem, accusative of d?ns. Attested from the 12th century.

Pronunciation

Noun

dent f (plural dents)

1. tooth

Related terms

References

Old French

Etymology

From Latin d?ns, dente

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?nt]
• Rhymes: -ent

Noun

dent m (oblique plural denz or dentz, nominative singular denz or dentz, nominative plural dent)

1. (anatomy, of a comb) tooth

Descendants

• French: dent

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin d?ns, dentem, from Proto-Indo-European *h?dénts, *h?dónts.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??t/

Noun

dent m (plural dent)

1. tooth

Derived terms

• dentin
• denton
• dentera
• dentista

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) daint

Etymology

From Latin d?ns, dentem, from Proto-Indo-European *h?dénts, *h?dónts.

Noun

dent m (plural dents)

1. (anatomy, Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) tooth

Derived terms

• pasta da dents (“toothpaste”)

English

Etymology

From Middle English blemisshen, blemissen, from Old French blemiss-, stem of Old French blemir, blesmir (“make pale, injure, wound, bruise”) (French blêmir), from Old Frankish *blesmjan, *blasmijan (“to make pale”), from Old Frankish *blasmi (“pale”), from Proto-Germanic *blasaz (“white, pale”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el- (“to shine”). Cognate with Dutch bles (“white spot”), German blass (“pale”), Old English ?blered (“bare, uncovered, bald, shaven”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bl?m??/
• Hyphenation: blem?ish

Noun

blemish (plural blemishes)

1. A small flaw which spoils the appearance of something, a stain, a spot.
   • 1769, Oxford Standard Text, King James Bible, Leviticus, 22, xix,

     Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.

   • 1997, Jean Soler, 5: The Semiotics of Food in the Bible, Carole Counihan, Penny Van Esterik (editors), Food and Culture: A Reader, page 61,

     Any foot shape deviating from this model is conceived as a blemish, and the animal is unclean.

   • 2003, A. K. Forrest, Chapter 6: Surface Defect Detection on Ceramics, Mark Graves, Bruce Batchelor (editors), Machine Vision for the Inspection of Natural Products, page 193,

     There are a very large number of types of blemish and the smallest blemish visible to a human can be surprisingly small, for example less than 10?m deep, which may be on the surface of a heavily embossed tile.
2. A moral defect; a character flaw.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:defect

Related terms

• blemished (adjective)
• blemishless
• blemishment

Translations

Verb

blemish (third-person singular simple present blemishes, present participle blemishing, simple past and past participle blemished)

1. To spoil the appearance of.
   • 2009, Michael A. Kirkman, Chapter 2: Global Markets fo Processed Potato Products, Jaspreet Singh, Lovedeep Kaur (editors), Advances in Potato Chemistry and Technology, page 40,

     Generally, varieties in current use for processing are resilient, if not wholly resistant to blemishing diseases and disorders.

   • 2011, Rob Imrie, Emma Street, Architectural Design and Regulation, unnumbered page,

     I mean it reaches a point of ridiculousness in some regards, and one?s seen actually many good schemes here in San Francisco, for example, that have been blemished by an overly strict adherence to codes.

2. To tarnish (reputation, character, etc.); to defame.
   • 1600, Francis Vere, Commentaries of the Divers Pieces of Service

     There had nothing passed betwixt us that might blemish reputation.

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