dent
[dɛnt]
n. 凹痕

vt. 使凹, 削

vi. 塌陷

[] 凹痕; 凹陷

1. Got mental when he saw the dent in his new car.
   看自己新凹痕而气
2. I don't know how it came about but I've got a dent in the rear of my car.
   道怎回，但汽凹痕。
3. Please strike up a dent in the medal(of a fender).
   请（护板）金属敲凹痕。

dent
[ noun ]

1. an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening)

<noun.phenomenon>
it made a dent in my bank account

2. a depression scratched or carved into a surface

<noun.shape>

3. an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

<noun.attribute>

[ verb ]

1. make a depression into

<verb.contact> indent
The bicycle dented my car

Dent \Dent\ (d[e^]nt), n. [A variant of {Dint}.]
1. A stroke; a blow. [Obs.] ``That dent of thunder.''
--Chaucer.

2. A slight depression, or small notch or hollow, made by a
blow or by pressure; an indentation.

A blow that would have made a dent in a pound of
butter. --De Quincey.


Dent \Dent\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dented}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Denting}.]
To make a dent upon; to indent.

The houses dented with bullets. --Macaulay.


Dent \Dent\, n. [F., fr. L. dens, dentis, tooth. See {Tooth}.]
(Mach.)
A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc. --Knight.