1.
[syn: dimpled chad, pregnant chad, dimple]
2. any slight depression in a surface;
- Example: "there are approximately 336 dimples on a golf ball"
3. a small natural hollow in the cheek or chin;
- Example: "His dimple appeared whenever he smiled"
VERB (2)
1. mark with, or as if with, dimples;
- Example: "drops dimpled the smooth stream"
2. produce dimples while smiling;
- Example: "The child dimpled up to the adults"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dimple \Dim"ple\, n. [Prob. a nasalized dim. of dip. See Dip,
and cf. Dimble.]
1. A slight natural depression or indentation on the surface
of some part of the body, esp. on the cheek or chin.
--Milton.
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The dimple of her chin. --Prior.
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2. A slight indentation on any surface.
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The garden pool's dark surface . . .
Breaks into dimples small and bright. --Wordsworth.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dimple \Dim"ple\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dimpled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Dimpling.]
To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little
inequalities.
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And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. --Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dimple \Dim"ple\, v. t.
To mark with dimples or dimplelike depressions. --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
dimple
n 1: a chad that has been punched or dimpled but all four
corners are still attached [syn: dimpled chad, pregnant
chad, dimple]
2: any slight depression in a surface; "there are approximately
336 dimples on a golf ball"
3: a small natural hollow in the cheek or chin; "His dimple
appeared whenever he smiled"
v 1: mark with, or as if with, dimples; "drops dimpled the
smooth stream"
2: produce dimples while smiling; "The child dimpled up to the
adults"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "dimple":
alveolation, alveolus, cockle, dent, depress, dint, engrave, fret,
furrow, gouge, honeycomb, impress, impression, imprint, indent,
indentation, indention, indenture, notch, pit, pock, pockmark,
press in, print, punch, punch in, recess, riffle, set back, set in,
stamp, sunken part, tamp