English-Thai Dictionary

dint

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DINT

n. 1. A blow; a stroke.
2. Force; violence; power exerted; as, to win by dint of arms, by dint of war, by dint of argument or importunity.
3. The mark made by a blow; a cavity or impression made by a blow or by pressure on a substance; often pronounced dent.
His hands had made a dint.

 

DINT

v.t.To make a mark or cavity on a substance by a blow or by pressure. [See Indent. ]

 

DINTED

pp. Marked by a blow or by pressure; as deep-dinted furrows.

 

DINTING

ppr. Impressing marks or cavities.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DINT

Dint, n. Etym: [OE. dint, dent, dunt, a blow, AS. dynt; akin to Icel.dyntr a dint, dynta to dint, and perh. to L. fendere (in composition ). Cf. 1st Dent, Defend. ]

 

1. A blow; a stroke. [Obs. ] "Mortal dint. " Milton. "Like thunder's dint. " Fairfax.

 

2. The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent. Dryden. Every dint a sword had beaten in it [the shield ]. Tennyson.

 

3. Force; power; -- esp. in the phrase by dint of. Now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity. Shak. It was by dint of passing strength That he moved the massy stone at length. Sir W. Scott.

 

DINT

Dint, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Dinting. ]

 

Defn: To make a mark or cavity on or in, by a blow or by pressure; to dent. Donne. Tennyson.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

dint

dint |dint dɪnt | ▶noun 1 an impression or hollow in a surface: the soft dints at the top of a coconut. 2 archaic a blow or stroke, typically one made with a weapon in fighting. • force of attack; impact: I perceive you feel the dint of pity. ▶verb [ with obj. ] mark (a surface ) with impressions or hollows: (as adj. dinted ) : the metal was dull and dinted. PHRASES by dint of by means of: he had gotten to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work. ORIGIN Old English dynt ‘stroke with a weapon, ’ reinforced in Middle English by the related Old Norse word dyntr; of unknown ultimate origin. Compare with dent .

 

Oxford Dictionary

dint

dint |dɪnt | ▶noun 1 a dent or hollow in a surface: the soft dints at the top of a coconut. 2 archaic a blow or stroke, typically one made with a weapon in fighting. • [ mass noun ] force of attack; impact: I perceive you feel the dint of pity. ▶verb [ with obj. ] mark (a surface ) with dents or hollows. PHRASES by dint of by means of: he had got to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work. ORIGIN Old English dynt ‘stroke with a weapon ’, reinforced in Middle English by the related Old Norse word dyntr; of unknown ultimate origin. Compare with dent .

 

Oxford Thesaurus

dint

dint noun the dints and holes were the work of arrows: dent, indentation, depression, dip, dimple, cleft, hollow, crater, pit; notch, nick, chip, mark, cut, gouge, gash. PHRASES by dint of our premier position is maintained by dint of sheer hard work: by means of, by use of, by virtue of, on account of, as a result of, as a consequence of, owing to, by reason of, on grounds of, on the strength of, due to, thanks to, by, via.

 

Spanish Dictionary

dintel

dintel nombre masculino arq Viga, madero u otro elemento horizontal que, apoyado sobre las jambas, cubre el vano de una puerta o ventana, y sirve de sostén del muro superior :sobre el dintel se lee la inscripción: “bienvenidos ”.SINÓNIMO cargadero .ETIMOLOGÍA Alteración del español antiguo lintel , préstamo (s. xvi ) del francés anticuado lintel (actual linteau ) y este del latín vulgar limitalis, alteración de liminaris ‘perteneciente a la puerta de entrada ’ por el influjo de limes , limitis ‘límite ’, derivado a su vez de limen , liminis ‘umbral ’, ‘puerta de entrada ’.

 

dintorno

dintorno nombre masculino arq Delineación de las partes de una figura contenidas dentro de su contorno o de las contenidas en el interior de la planta o de la sección de un edificio .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

dint

dint /dɪnt /名詞 C (打ってできる )へこみ, くぼみ . by d í nt of A ｟かたく ｠A 〈方法など 〉によって, Aの力で (by means of A ).動詞 他動詞 …をへこます, …に押しつけて印を付ける .