indent
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
media
military
politics
publishing
typography
war
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 cut notches into”), from en- (“in-, en-”) + dent (“tooth”), from Latin dēns.
Base: dent
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: indents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: indents
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: indenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: indented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: indented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
pos: noun
gloss: A stamp; an impression.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
pos: noun
gloss: To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to indent the edge of paper
gloss: To be cut, notched, or dented.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
pos: verb
examples: indent a smooth surface with a hammer
to indent wax with a stamp
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: historical
gloss: To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
reflexive
examples: The Polanders indented with Henry, Duke of Anjou, their new-chosen king, to bring with him an hundred families of artificers into Poland.
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.
gloss: To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
examples: to indent the first line of a paragraph one em
to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first
gloss: To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Seeing Orlando, it vnlink'd it selfe,
And with indented glides, did slip away
gloss: To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
pos: verb
tags: India
Singapore
examples: What is the rule observed in India in indenting upon England for military stores ?
Antonyms: unindent
outdent
dedent
Derived words: dedent
indentwise
indentable
indentation
indenter
indentment
hanging indent
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