indent
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Partly from Middle English indenten (“to dent in”), equivalent to in- + dent (see dent); partly from Middle English indenten, endenten, from Old French endenter (“to provide with teeth”), from en- (“in-, en-”) + dent (“tooth”), from Latin dēns.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
indent (plural indents)
- A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
- A stamp; an impression.
- A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.
- A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
Verb[edit]
indent (third-person singular simple present indents, present participle indenting, simple past and past participle indented)
- (transitive) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth
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to indent the edge of paper
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- (intransitive) To be cut, notched, or dented.
- To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
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indent a smooth surface with a hammer
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to indent wax with a stamp
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- (historical) To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each party could demonstrate that their copy was part of the original whole.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.
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1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy, 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):, New York, 2001, p.91:
- The Polanders indented with Henry, Duke of Anjou, their new-chosen king, to bring with him an hundred families of artificers into Poland.
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- to indent and drive bargains with the Almighty
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- (transitive, obsolete) To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts.
- to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant
- (typography) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or lesser distance from the margin. See indentation, and indention. Normal indent pushes in a line or paragraph. "hanging indent" pulls the line out into the margin.
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to indent the first line of a paragraph one em
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to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first
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- (obsolete, intransitive) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
- (military, India, dated) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wilhelm to this entry?)
Antonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to cut into points like a row of teeth
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to be cut, notched, or dented
to engage someone
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typography: to begin a line or lines at a greater or less distance from the margin
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Verb[edit]
indent
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