(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.
Ment
Definition:
(p. p.) of Menge
() p. p. of Menge.
Example Sentences:
(1) When that phrase first flew across the Atlantic, we didn't know how to pronounce it: ha rassment or har ass ment?
(2) The ratio of ment TM in the period of REMs burst against the total ment TM during sREM (reflecting the noradrenergic hypofunction) was high in the younger group, while it decreased later.
(3) The ratio of the number of mentalis twitch movement (ment TM) during sREM against the number of rapid eye movements (REMs) (reflecting dopaminergic activities) was below normal in the younger cases but increased markedly.
(4) Muscarine has been iso lared in a yield of 0.013 percent from mycelia of Clitocybe rivulosa grown in the laboratory on a medium supple mented with beer wort.
(5) An increase in the level of the spontaneous mutational process is shown to increase the size of population samples which are ment, when analysed, to reveal statistically significant differences between the effect observed and the level of spontaneous mutagenesis.
(6) Twelve scales of THI were grouped into two, the first consisting of ten scales (SUSY, RESP, EYSK, MOUT, DIGE, IMPU, MENT, DEPR, NERV, and LIFE) and the second consisting of two scales (AGGR and LISC).
(7) The importance of 5 alpha reductase in the differential action of testosterone and MENT on prostate was confirmed by using a 5 alpha-reductase inhibitor.
(8) Winnicott's notion of the creation of the subject in the psychological space between mother and infant involves a conception of the on-going constitution of the subject in the simultaneity of forms of dialectical tension between at-one-ment and separateness, internality and externality, I and me, I and Thou.
(9) Classification systems are ment to be an aid in taking therapeutical decisions in the assessment of the prognosis and in comparising of different lesions.
(10) In contrast, cyproterone acetate, an antiandrogen that competitively binds to the androgen receptors, inhibited the action of MENT and of testosterone on the prostate as well as on the muscle.
(11) Still, we have our two-edged gift of tongues to watch, and tongues we find to sing of London's Babylon, Skye's Wyoming Turkey Magazine Radikal Poet Murat Mentes The aliens sniffing the aromas rising from Turkish kitchens The aliens hearing poems of Rumi, melodies of Mevlevis The aliens seeing the brightness of the Bosphorus, of domes, of young smiles Ask each other: "Those signals do come from the Earth, but which part exactly?"
(12) Comparison of MENT-reconstructed images with corresponding anatomic myocardial cross sections indicate that as few as 6 to 12 views can be used to reconstruct the cross sections of the multiple coronary branches (n = 6-11) within a plane of reconstruction.
(13) Selected published studies investigating the existence of thought disorder in close relatives were re-examined in response to the conclusion by Saccuzzo, Callahan, and Madsen (J Nerv Ment Dis 176:368-371, 1988) that "the evidence for thought disorder in the families of schizophrenics is weak and inconclusive."
(14) The 42-kDa protein designated here as MENT (mature erythrocyte nuclear termination stage-specific protein) is hyperexpressed at the terminal stage of chicken erythropoiesis and is accumulated in adult chicken erythrocyte nuclei.
(15) The ability of 7 alpha-methyl-19-nortestosterone acetate (MENT) to increase the weights of ventral prostate and seminal vesicles of castrated rats was four times higher than that of testosterone, while its effect on the weights of bulbocavernosus plus levator ani muscles (muscle), was 10 times that of testosterone.
(16) He was hounded out of his native Scotland to a hideaway in the south of France after the furore over his £16.9m pension pot which was later halved under pressure from the government and the new management of the bank.
(17) J. Nerv Ment Dis 177:480-486) which found that subjects with multiple personality disorder (MPD) experienced significantly more changes in visual functioning between alter personalities than a control group simulating the disorder.
(18) Upon denaturation in 98% formamide, the viral genome sedi-mented at 24S in formamide sucrose gradient and became sensitive to RNase.
(19) This paper is ment to be a basic introduction to the following communications on flaptechniques in the same journal.
(20) He later apologised “It’s not glasses he needs – it’s a Labrador!” – Lyon midfielder Cl é ment Grenier to referee Ruddy Buquet after a stormy 2-1 loss at home to Saint-Étienne “I’m surprised by the unacceptable and immature attitude of Romao, who made vulgar remarks towards [Canal+ pundit] Pierre Ménès and me because he couldn’t think of anything else to say after fouling me but insult me.