decoration vs dent

decoration

noun
  • Any item that adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment or ornamentation. 

  • Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc. 

  • The use of exotic sugars as decoys to distract the immune system of a host 

  • The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation. 

dent

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

  • 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. 

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

  • A slot or a wire in a reed 

  • A minor impact or effect made upon something. 

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

verb
  • To impact something, producing a dent. 

  • To develop a dent or dents. 

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