different between dint vs oint

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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 *d?en- (“to strike, hit”). Cognate with Swedish dialectal dunt, Icelandic dyntr (“a dint”). More at dent.

Alternative forms

• dunt

Noun

dint (countable and uncountable, plural dints)

1. (obsolete) A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, xxxi:

     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.

2. Force, power; especially in by dint of.

   • O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The dint of pity

   • 1805, Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, XVIII:

     It was by dint of passing strength / That he moved the massy stone at length.

3. The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
   • 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.

Derived terms

• by dint of

Translations

Verb

dint (third-person singular simple present dints, present participle dinting, simple past and past participle dinted)

1. To dent.

Etymology 2

Contraction

dint

1. Pronunciation spelling of didn’t.

Anagrams

• NDTI, idn't, tind

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin d?ns, dentem. Compare Italian dente, Romansch dent, Venetian dénte, Romanian dinte, French dent, Spanish diente.

Noun

dint m (plural din?h)

1. tooth

Derived terms

• dintidure

Middle English

Alternative forms

• dent, dente, dunt, dynt, dynte, dont, dount, dinnt

Etymology

From Old English dynt, from Proto-Germanic *duntiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dint/, /d?nt/, /dunt/

Noun

dint (plural dintes or (Early ME) dunten)

1. The landing of a weapon; a blow or stroke.

2. (by extension) Warfare, battle; the use of weaponry.
3. The strike, landing or force of a tool or other item hitting something.
4. The striking or noise of thunder; a thunderclap.
5. (rare) A strike with one's limbs or body.
6. (rare) An injury resulting from a weapon's impact.

Derived terms

• dinten

Descendants

• English: dent, dint, dunt
• Scots: dunt, dont, dynt, dint, dent

References

• “dint, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-05-05.

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French dent, from Latin d?ns, dentem.

Noun

dint f

1. (anatomy) tooth

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman oint, Middle French oint, past participle of oindre, from Latin unguere.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??nt/

Verb

oint (third-person singular simple present oints, present participle ointing, simple past and past participle ointed)

1. (now rare, poetic) To anoint.

   • They oint their naked limbs with mothered oil.

Anagrams

• -tion, -toin, INTO, Toni, into, noit, on it

Catalan

Etymology

Present participle of oir, possibly corresponding to Latin audi?ns, audientem.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /u?int/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /u?in/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o?int/

Verb

oint

1. present participle of oir

Noun

oint

1. (archaic) hearer

Synonyms

• oïdor

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w??/

Etymology

From Middle French oint, from Old French oint, from Latin unctus.

Verb

oint m (feminine singular ointe, masculine plural oints, feminine plural ointes)

1. past participle of oindre

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin unctus.

Verb

oint

1. past participle of oindre

Descendants

• Middle French: oint
  • French: oint

Etymology 2

From Latin unctum.

Noun

oint m (oblique plural oinz or ointz, nominative singular oinz or ointz, nominative plural oint)

1. lard; fat; grease
2. ointment

Related terms

• ointure