Dent vs. Ding — What's the Difference?

A depression in a surface made by pressure or a blow

Make a ringing sound

(Informal) A significant, usually diminishing effect or impression

Dent (something).

(Informal) Meaningful progress; headway

Used to imitate a metallic ringing sound resembling a bell.

See tooth.

A mark or dent on the bodywork of a car, boat, or other vehicle.

To make a dent in.

A lively party or celebration.

To become dented

To ring; clang.

A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.

To speak persistently and repetitiously.

(figurative) A minor impact or effect made upon something.

To cause to clang, as by striking.

A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel.

To instill with constant repetition

A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action

To dent or nick

(engineering) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.

To hit or strike

(weaving) A slot or a wire in a reed

To penalize, as in assigning a score

(transitive) To impact something, producing a dent.

(Slang) To shoot, especially with a gun

(intransitive) To develop a dent or dents.

A ringing sound.

A stroke; a blow.

A small dent or nick, as in the body of a car.

A slight depression, or small notch or hollow, made by a blow or by pressure; an indentation.

A minor penalty or deduction, as in a score.

A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.

(informal) Very minor damage, a small dent or chip.

To make a dent upon; to indent.

(colloquial) A rejection.

An appreciable consequence (especially a lessening);

The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.

A depression scratched or carved into a surface

The act of levelling up.

An impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.

Make a depression into;

(Hong Kong) An indigenous inhabitant of the New Territories entitled to the building a village house under the Small House Policy.

(transitive) To hit or strike.

To dash; to throw violently.

(transitive) To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.

To fire or reject.

To deduct, as points, from (somebody), in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.

To mishit (a golf ball).

(intransitive) To make high-pitched sound like a bell.

(transitive) To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.

To level up.

To dash; to throw violently.

To cause to sound or ring.

To strike; to thump; to pound.

To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.

To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster.

A thump or stroke, especially of a bell.

Go `ding dong', like a bell