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Indent   /ɪndˈɛnt/   Listen
noun
Indent  n.  
1.
A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
2.
A stamp; an impression. (Obs.)
3.
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.
4.
(Mil.) A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army. (India)


verb
Indent  v. t.  (past & past part. indented; pres. part. indenting)  
1.
To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.
2.
To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp.
3.
To bind out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant.
4.
(Print.) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or less distance from the margin; as, to indent the first line of a paragraph one em; to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first. See Indentation, and Indention.
5.
(Mil.) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores. (India)


Indent  v. i.  
1.
To be cut, notched, or dented.
2.
To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
3.
To contract; to bargain or covenant. "To indent and drive bargains with the Almighty."





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"Indent" Quotes from Famous Books



... bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently shortened sail and implored the protection of St. Nicholas when they crossed, ...
— Legends That Every Child Should Know • Hamilton Wright Mabie
... palm of his left hand under Knightley's nose. "Branded, d'ye see? Branded. There's more besides." He set his foot on the chair and stripped the silk stocking down his leg. Just above the ankle there was a broad indent where a fetter had bitten into the flesh. "I have dragged a chain, you see; not like you among the Moors, but here in Tangier, on that damned Mole, in sight of these my brother officers. By the Lord, Knightley, I tell you you have had the ...
— Ensign Knightley and Other Stories • A. E. W. Mason
... are sweet, but charms are frail: Swift as the short-lived flower they fly, At morn they bloom, at evening die: Though Sickness yet a while forbears, Yet Time destroys what Sickness spares: Now Helen lives alone in fame, And Cleopatra's but a name: Time must indent that heavenly brow, And thou must ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy
... friends. Of the De Stancys pure there ran through the collection a mark by which they might surely have been recognized as members of one family; this feature being the upper part of the nose. Every one, even if lacking other points in common, had the special indent at this point in the face—sometimes moderate in ...
— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy
... every five years, as you know, we indent for a new Viceroy; and each Viceroy imports, with the rest of his baggage, a Private Secretary, who may or may not be the real Viceroy, just as Fate ordains. Fate looks after the Indian Empire because it is ...
— The Kipling Reader - Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling • Rudyard Kipling


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