dent
意味
- くぼみ,へこみ
- …をくぼませる,へこませる
- へこむ,くぼむ
- (くし・歯車などの)歯
例文
Stopgap measures won't make a dent in drug addiction.
その場しのぎの対策では麻薬中毒問題に切り込むことはできないでしょう。
They had a dent in the rear door.
後ろのドアにへこみができた。
There are so many fine scratches and dents on its surface that it's no use polishing it.
表面に細かい傷やへこみがたくさんあるから磨いてもむだだよ。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
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”). Doublet of dint.