What's the difference between deft and dent?

Deft


Definition:

  • (a.) Apt; fit; dexterous; clever; handy; spruce; neat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Deft and perceptive, with the ability to contribute his share of goals, Eriksen made his Eredivisie debut at 17 and received his first senior cap at 18, making him the country's youngest international since Michael Laudrup.
  • (2) All you do is deftly lie with your body or with your words.
  • (3) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
  • (4) It is based on the comparison of an aerobic plate count (APC) with a count obtained using the Direct Epifluorescent Filter Technique (DEFT).
  • (5) The deft and defs reductions ranged from 60 to 6.5 per cent and 58.8 to 9.6 per cent respectively, and equivalent DMFT and DMFS reductions ranged from 11.1 to 0 per cent, and 33.3 to 16.7 per cent respectively.
  • (6) We will need some deft maneuvering, and perhaps some out-of-the-box thinking.
  • (7) • Sir George Young, attends cabinet as leader of the House of Commons, 71, has been widely praised for his deft handling of MPs across the chamber.
  • (8) And yet with a deftness of touch, Uni Lad – a website for "LADS" – exposed these stereotypes to their bare essentials.
  • (9) A plot of decayed, extracted, and filled teeth (deft) vs. age resulted in a bell-shaped curve that was shifted to the right by 2.5 years for malnourished groups, compared with normal children (p less than 0.01).
  • (10) I lifted my patient's eyelid to check she was dead – and her eyeball came out Read more After some deft manoeuvring with the forceps and a prophylactic course of antibiotics, the offending item was deposited in the medical waste bin.
  • (11) In fact, the first things that strike you about the album are the soulful vocals of Sampha – whose voice does "hurt" better than a wounded puppy – and its deft, garage-inspired rhythms.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Silva had been identified, along with Agüero, as City’s main threat by Leonid Slutsky, the CSKA manager, and it was the Spaniard who slipped the ball through deftly for Dzeko to beat the offside trap.
  • (13) With such a magnificently deft operator, it’s hard to work out what’s really going on behind the smile.
  • (14) The results showed a mean DEFT (decayed, extracted and filled teeth) score of 3.34 for four to six year old children, a mean DEFT of 3.26 for seven to nine year olds and a mean DMFT (decayed, missing and filled permanent teeth) of 5.03 for 10 to 12 year olds.
  • (15) It was a deft move on the part of Putin to build trust.” What was also significant was who was in the room – or rather who wasn’t.
  • (16) 106 samples of chilled, cured canned hams and shoulders have been examined with a traditional plate count technique and with the Direct Epifluorescent Filter Technique (DEFT).
  • (17) Its presence at the sector's policy high table this week is a timely reminder of just how deftly the collapse was dealt with, largely by the sector itself, little more than 12 months ago.
  • (18) Lowell Libson, a member of the export review committee that advises the government on works of art, said: "This portrait is a profoundly personal and impressive demonstration of Van Dyck's confidence as a painter and with his deft manipulation of paint he created the illusion that the viewer is encountering the subject directly.
  • (19) The average baseline D3MFT scores of the 7-, 8- and -9-yr-old urban and rural children were 0.27, 0.33, 0.35 and 0.04, 0.23 and 0.23, respectively; the average deft values were 2.9, 2.4, 2.6 and 1.4, 1.9 and 1.4.
  • (20) Even before her deft performance in the early evening Republican presidential debate last week, Carly Fiorina was being heralded as the candidate who could take on Hillary Clinton .

Dent


Definition:

  • (n.) A stroke; a blow.
  • (n.) A slight depression, or small notch or hollow, made by a blow or by pressure; an indentation.
  • (v. t.) To make a dent upon; to indent.
  • (n.) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
  • (2) The parameters of LES relaxation for both wet and dry swallows were similar using either a carefully placed single recording orifice or a Dent sleeve.
  • (3) Helen Dent, chief executive of Family Action, said: "It can't be right that going back to school breaks the bank for some families.
  • (4) The disastrous launches of SimCity and Battlefield 4 , the confining and somewhat invasive nature of the publisher’s Origin digital gaming platform and the voraciously monetised smartphone version of Dungeon Keeper, have kicked further dents in its reputation.
  • (5) But no sooner had Hull hopes risen than they were dented by Meyler.
  • (6) The bomb threat tweet was sent to Freeman, the Europe editor of Time magazine, Catherine Mayer, and the Independent columnist Grace Dent, who took a screen grab of the tweet and posted it for her Twitter followers to see .
  • (7) Hypercalcemia of sarcoidosis is associated with a normal or decreased C-terminal parathormone assay and a positive Dent test, as well as elevated serum immunoglobulins and erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and a positive angiotensin-converting enzyme assay.
  • (8) This appears to be no longer true, and the attacks aren’t putting a dent in the polling deadlock.
  • (9) He may need to produce proof promptly if he wants to dent Key's chances of surviving Saturday's election.
  • (10) Abhijit Mukherjee, the son of president Pranab Mukherjee, himself an MP with the ruling Congress party, dismissed protesters after the Delhi rape as "dented and painted women".
  • (11) But the Pennsylvania Republican Charles Dent said: "We don't expect the secret service to take a bullet for the president's staff."
  • (12) In 1976 Dent (Gastroenterology 71: 263-267) introduced a sleeve-catheter device for obtaining continuous recording of lower esophageal sphincter pressure.
  • (13) The decision, which is being contested by the arts world in Germany and beyond, will effectively end the Deutsche Oper am Rhein – considered to be among Germany's 10 leading theatre institutions – and will seriously dent Duisburg's musical theatre and ballet output.
  • (14) "If on the other hand we can shape an agenda that says we can create jobs, advance growth and make a serious dent in climate change and be an international leader I think that is something the American people would support."
  • (15) The report by Dr Androulla Johnstone and Christine Dent for the NHS Health and Social Care Advisory Service describes Savile as “an opportunistic predator who could also on occasions show a high degree of premeditation when planning attacks on his victims”.
  • (16) Moderates “don’t like the idea of taking a vote in the House that may go nowhere in the Senate”, said Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania.
  • (17) Journalist Ticky Hedley Dent shot back: "I think #Mumsnet is key to understanding feminism.
  • (18) But it also has a relatively small number of downloadable apps and very little memory for storing them; no easy way of transferring music files to the device; and the attractiveness of the high-resolution screen is somewhat dented by the fact that it doesn't support "multi-touch" interactions in the way the Apple product does.
  • (19) Recipe supplied by Patrick Hanna, L'Entrepot, lentrepot.co.uk Clams with leek, fennel and parsley Though you could add a twirl of al dente spaghetti or linguine to this dish, it is the fragrant, briny broth that delights – better with a crusty loaf and a spoon.
  • (20) While on paper the US housing market makes up a smaller part of the economy following the crash, new signs of stagnation are likely to dent consumer confidence.

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