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Pint vs Dint - What's the difference?

pint | dint |

As nouns the difference between pint and dint

is that pint is a unit of volume, equivalent to ⅛ of a gallon or while dint is a blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.

As a verb dint is

to dent.

As a contraction dint is

eye dialect of didn't|didn’t|lang=en.

pint

English

(wikipedia pint)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A unit of volume, equivalent to ? of a gallon or
  • # in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint ) and
  • # in the United States approximately
  • ## 473 millilitres for liquids (a US liquid pint ) or
  • ## 551 millilitres for dry goods (a US dry pint ).
  • # hungarian pint 1,696 liter
  • (British) A pint of milk.
    • Please leave three pints tomorrow, milkman
  • (euphemistic) A glass of beer, served by the pint.
  • * 1998 , Kirk Jones, Waking Ned , Tomboy films
    • Finn: You must have a terrible thirst on you tonight. I've never seen a man drink two pints at the same time.

    Related terms

    * half-pint * imperial pint * pinta * pint glass * pint pot * pint-size, pint-sized * US pint * you can't fit a quart into a pint pot

    See also

    * gallon * litre * quart ----

    dint

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) dint, dent, . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

  • (label) A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
  • *, I.i:
  • *:Much daunted with that dint , her sence was dazd.
  • * 1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XI, xxxi:
  • *:Between them cross-bows stood, and engines wrought / To cast a stone, a quarry, or a dart, // From whence, like thunder's dint , or lightnings new, / Against the bulwarks stones and lances flew.
  • Force, power; especially in (by dint of).
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:Now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The dint of pity.
  • *Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
  • *:It was by dint of passing strength / That he moved the massy stone at length.
  • The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
  • * (1809-1892)
  • *:every dint a sword had beaten in it [the shield]
  • :(Dryden)
    • Derived terms
    * by dint of

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dent
  • * {{quote-book, year=1915, author=Jeffery Farnol, title=Beltane The Smith, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And, in that moment came one, fierce and wild of aspect, in dinted casque and rusty mail who stood and watched--ah God! }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1854, author=W. Harrison Ainsworth, title=The Star-Chamber, Volume 2, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Your helmet was dinted in as if by a great shot. }}

    Etymology 2

    Contraction

    (head)

    • Anagrams

    * ----