Dent vs Crevasse - What's the difference?
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A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
(by extension, informal) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action
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To impact something, producing a dent.
To develop a dent or dents.
(literally) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field; a chasm.
(figuratively) A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.
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To form crevasses.
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Dent is a related term of crevasse.
As nouns the difference between dent and crevasse
is that dent is a shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact or dent can be (engineering) a tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc while crevasse is gully.As a verb dent
is to impact something, producing a dent.dent
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) . More at dint.Noun
(en noun)- The crash produced a dent in the left side of the car.
- That purchase put a bit of a dent in my wallet.
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Verb
(en verb)- ''Copper is soft and dents easily.
Etymology 2
(etyl), from (etyl) dens, dentis, tooth. See tooth.Anagrams
* English ergative verbs ----crevasse
English
(wikipedia crevasse)Noun
(en noun)- he laments that he can find no physiological phenomenon answering to his subject’s winning a race, or losing it. Between his terminal output of energy and his victory or defeat there is a mysterious crevasse . Physiology is baffled.