# indent
## English
### Etymology

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

* (noun) IPA: /ˈɪndɛnt/, /ɪnˈdɛnt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (verb) IPA: /ɪnˈdɛnt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛnt

### Noun

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.

#### Derived terms

* indentation

#### Translations
### Verb

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
    to indent the edge of paper
* (intransitive) To be cut, notched, or dented.
* To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
    indent a smooth surface with a hammer
    to indent wax with a stamp
* (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, reflexive, obsolete) To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.
** 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, 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.
** 1698, Robert South, Twelve Sermons upon Several Subjects and Occasions‎, London: Thomas Bennet, page 28:And is this now the Person who is to oblige his Maker? to indent and drive bargains with the Almighty?
** 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, pp. xlii-xliii,
    […] he accidentally met with the commander of a trading vessel bound to Barbadoes, and being actuated by an adventurous spirit, [he] bargained for a passage by indenting himself to serve a planter for four years after his arrival in that island.
* (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.
    to indent the first line of a paragraph one em
    to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first
* (obsolete, intransitive) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
** c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:Seeing Orlando, it vnlink'd it selfe, And with indented glides, did slip away
* (military, India, dated) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
** 1832 May 23, John Byng examining Jasper Nicolls in the House of Commons:
    What is the rule observed in India in indenting upon England for military stores ?

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “typography”): unindent
* (antonym(s) of “typography”): outdent
* (antonym(s) of “typography”): dedent

#### Derived terms

* hanging indent

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Dinnet, dentin, dinnet, intend, tinned

## Latin
### Verb

indent
* third-person plural future active indicative of indō