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Dint vs Dirt - What's the difference?

dint | dirt |

As nouns the difference between dint and dirt

is that dint is a blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight while dirt is soil or earth.

As verbs the difference between dint and dirt

is that dint is to dent while dirt is to make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty.

As a contraction dint

is eye dialect of didn't|didn’t|lang=en.

As an acronym DIRT is

Deposit Interest Retention Tax

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

    * ----

    dirt

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • soil or earth
  • A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance
  • Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person; gossip
  • The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
  • Meanness; sordidness.
  • * Melmoth
  • honours thrown away upon dirt and infamy
  • In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
  • Derived terms

    * dirt bike * dirt nap * dirty * do someone dirt

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty