indent

Significado (inglés)

Noun

1. A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
2. A stamp; an impression.
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. A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.

Verb

1. To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth
2. To be cut, notched, or dented.
3. To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
4. 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.
5. (obsolete) To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.
6. (obsolete) To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts.
7. 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.
8. (obsolete) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
9. To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.

Sinónimos

indenture

dent

notch

indentation

indention

nick

order

chase

attach

groove

jag

recess

join

flute

🪈

depress

hollow

humiliate

dint

edge in

fasten

fillister

fix

fixate

flexuose

frame

frame up

frap

furrow

gauffer

goffer

gouge

grave

🪦

gutter

hang on

hitch

infix

insert

intromit

jagged

mill

moor

mortgage

mount

peg

pick

⛏️

pin

post

push in

rabbet

rebate

reeve

requisition

rig

rut

scallop

scratch

secure

serrate

sign on

space

spacing

splintery

stake

stick

stick on

strap

tab

tack

chip at

toggle

tooth

🦷

toothing

be crooked

be dented

make an incision

scollop

make a notch

cut notches

begin a new paragraph

order list

scoop channel

purchase list

indent number

affix

import order

band

beard

belay

bend

blank

bond

bracket

brooch

catch

chip

clasp

cleave

crenellate

curl

curve

cut

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈɪndɛnt/

Etimoloxía (inglés)

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.