Dint vs Pothole - What's the difference?
dint | pothole |
(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)
To dent
* {{quote-book, year=1915, author=Jeffery Farnol, title=Beltane The Smith, chapter=, edition=
, 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=
, passage=Your helmet was dinted in as if by a great shot. }}
A shallow pit or other edged depression in a road's surface, especially when caused by erosion by weather or traffic.
A pit formed in the bed of a turbulent stream.
* The earliest ideas on the creation of potholes''' are that they were associated with "moulins de glacier" (glacier mills) formed where surface streams on glaciers and ice sheets fall into holes in the ice. Water entering these surficial holes was believed to impact on the bedrock beneath creating a large '''pothole'''. The "Moulin Hypothesis", first suggested in 1874, continued to be accepted by many authors until the 1950s. However, commencing in the 1930s, other authors have suggested dissatisfaction with the moulin hypothesis, largely on the grounds that it failed to explain how ice could remain stable long enough for the "giant" '''potholes''' to form and why many '''potholes (like those at Rockwood) were present in large numbers. Grand River Conservation Authority (Canada) Newsletter of May-June 2002.
(geology) A vertical cave system, often found in limestone.
(archaeology) A pit resulting from unauthorized excavation by treasure hunters or vandals.
As nouns the difference between dint and pothole
is that dint is (label) a blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight while pothole is a shallow pit or other edged depression in a road's surface, especially when caused by erosion by weather or traffic or pothole can be (archaeology) a pit resulting from unauthorized excavation by treasure hunters or vandals.As a verb dint
is to dent.As a contraction dint
is .dint
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dint, dent, . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
Derived terms
* by dint ofVerb
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