| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To batter or slash.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle conjugation of the verb dent.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (dent) | 1. Make a depression into; "The bicycle dented my car".[Wordnet]. 2. To make a dent upon; to indent.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: denting, dented, dents, denter, denters, dentingly and dentedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DENTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DENTING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Nuclear Energy & Physics | 1: First, denting due to corrosion of tube supports and plates, which has been the most serious problem so far, has been considerably retarded by rigid chemistry control. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: Plastic deformation of tubes resulting from the buildup of carbon steel support plate corrosion products (magnetite) in tube-to-tube support plate annuli. The corrosion is caused by secondary (generator-to-turbine) water with which the carbon steel is constantly in contact. The tube distortions at the support plate intersections have resulted in numerous instances of tube leaks caused by stress corrosion cracks initiated mostly from the inside (carrying primary, or reactor-to-steam-generator, water) surface of the dented tube. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Common Expressions: dent
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Bucky Dent | Russell Earl "Bucky" Dent (b. November 25, 1951), born Russell Earl O'Dey, is an American former Major League Baseball player and manager. He earned two World Series rings as the starting shortstop for the New York Yankees in 1977 and 1978, and was the World Series MVP in 1978. Dent is most famous for his home run in a tie-breaker game against the Boston Red Sox at the end of the 1978 season. (references) | ||
| Charlie Dent | Charlie Dent (born May 24, 1960 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is a Republican Member of Congress, representing the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. (references) | ||
| Dent (Lonsdale) | Dent is a small village nestling in a narrow valley on the western slopes of the Pennines. Until 1974 it was in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Now, although it still lies within the Yorkshire Dales National Park, for local government purposes it is within Cumbria. It is about 6 km (4 miles) south east of Sedbergh and about 13 km (8 miles) north east of Kirkby Lonsdale. (references) | ||
| Dent Bank | Dent Bank is a small village in County Durham, in England. It is situated on the north side of the Teesdale between Middleton-in-Teesdale and Newbiggin. (references) | ||
| Dent Blanche | Dent Blanche is a mountain in the Swiss Alps, west of Zermatt and north of the Matterhorn. (references) | ||
| Dent corn | Corn whose kernels contain both hard and soft starch and become indented at maturity. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Dent Island (Whitsunday Islands) | Dent Island is an island just off the coast of Queensland, Australia. Dent Island is located at 20°21'S"148 56°E'. Dent Island is part of the Whitsunday Group and lies immediately west of Hamilton Island. The Whitsunday Group is one of the Island Groups that together comprise the Whitsunday Islands or Greater Whitsunday Islands or Greater Whitsundays. Dent Island has a lighthouse which is located at 20°22.3'S"148 55.8°E'. The earliest charts of the Whitsunday area showed only one island, named ‘Passage Island’ where Dent Island and Hamilton Island currently lie. It was not until 1866, when Commander G. S. Nares, Royal Navy, on HMS Salamander, carried out a detailed survey of the northern waters of the Whitsunday Passage that the charts were amended to show two separate islands. Dent Island was named after Lieutenant Albert Dent, Royal Navy, on the HMS Salamander. (references) | ||
| Dent v. West Virginia | Dent v. West Virginia, 129. U.S. 114 (1889), was an important United States Supreme Court case involving the reputable practice of physicians and state laws in the late nineteenth century. (references) | ||
| Frederick B. Dent | Frederick B. Dent (born August 17, 1922 in Cape May, New Jersey) served from 1943 until 1946 in the United States Navy. He was the United States Secretary of Commerce from February 2, 1973 to March 26, 1975. He currently lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina. (references) | ||
| Frederick Dent Grant | Frederick Dent Grant (May 30, 1850 - April 12, 1912) was a soldier and U.S. minister to Austria. (references) | ||
| Harry Dent | Harry S. Dent, Jr. is an American economist and writer. His most famous book, The Roaring 2000s, appeared on the New York Times best-seller list. Dent is known to espouse a philosophy of demographic economics. (references) | ||
| John Charles Dent | John Charles Dent (November 8, 1841 - September 27, 1888) was a Canadian journalist, author and historian. (references) | ||
| John H. Dent | John H. Dent (1782 - 31 July 1823) was an officer in the United States Navy during the Quasi-War and the First Barbary War. (references) | ||
| Lancelot Dent | Lancelot Dent was a 19th century British merchant in the Far East. (references) | ||
| Phil Dent | Phil Dent (b. February 14 1950, in Sydney, Australia) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. (references) | ||
| Richard Dent | Richard Dent is a former American football defensive end who played primarily for the Chicago Bears. He was the MVP of Super Bowl XX. He was born on December 13 1960. (references) | ||
| Susie Dent | Susie Dent is a British lexicographer born in Woking. After studying French and German at Oxford University, she worked as a language teacher in the USA and for a German publisher before going to work for the Oxford University Press (OUP). She has been a regular on-screen adjudicator on the popular British game show Countdown since 1992, having made over 1000 appearances. She left the OUP in approximately 2000 and now works as a writer and contributor to discussions of language issues and words in the news. She is the author of The Language Report (2003, second edition, titled Larpers and Shroomers: The Language Report, 2004). The third edition "Fanboys and Overdogs", publishes in October 2005. (references) | ||
| Taylor Dent | Taylor Dent (b. April 24 1981) is a tennis player from the United States. He was born in Santa Ana, California, and is the son of former ATP player and 1974 Australian Open finalist Phil Dent. (references) | ||
| Tory Dent | Tory Dent is a commentator on AIDS in American literature and a poet. (references) | ||
| USS Dent (DD-116) | USS Dent (DD-116) was a Wickes class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War I and later sered as APD-9 in World War II. She was named for John H. Dent. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: DENTING
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Tube denting | Nuclear Energy & Physics | First, denting due to corrosion of tube supports and plates, which has been the most serious problem so far, has been considerably retarded by rigid chemistry control. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Wrong denting | Industry | The drawing of one or more ends through the reed in an incorrect order. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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