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indent
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Word definitions for indent in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., indenten / endenten "to make notches; to give (something) a toothed or jagged appearance," also "to make a legal indenture," from Old French endenter "to notch or dent, give a serrated edge to," from Medieval Latin indentare "to furnish with ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN paragraph ▪ If you indent paragraphs , all headings should be centred. ▪ You might want to indent a whole paragraph , like this one, to make a specific point stand out. ▪ To indent more than one paragraph , you must ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indent \In*dent"\, n. A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch. --Shak. A stamp; an impression. [Obs.] A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the ...
Usage examples of indent.
There was a deck of cumulus far below but through big breaks, the pilots could see the deeply indented coastline of the Takao area and the big concrete airdrome of Einansho.
The Epeira takes special pains with the edge of the neck, where she fashions an indented border, the angles of which, prolonged with cords or lines, form the main support of the building.
The boldest, darkest lines of blue and brown, ancient ideogrammatic symbols of fish, bird and conch were extended in the movement of two rounded shoulder-blades from the matt slope of the neck to their perfect centring on the indented line of spine, rippling as shadowless store lighting ran a scale down it.
Going out of the harbor we encounter Pictou Island and Light, and presently see the low coast of Prince Edward Island,--a coast indented and agreeable to those idly sailing along it, in weather that seemed let down out of heaven and over a sea that sparkled but still slept in a summer quiet.
The indents, glad to be outside at last, flopped contentedly on the sand, letting the sun soak into their bodies.
He stood in the dark parking lot, listening to the anxious chatter of the remaining indents, the whining and wailing of their children.
Dallow and a couple of other indents had returned with boxes of doughnuts and a styrofoam coffee urn, most of the people were free.
The indents laughed nervously, comparing the paleness of wrists, waiting for someone to tell them what to do.
No wonder the indents feared freedom, if it meant a constant battle between mind and reflex.
Besides this bay the shores of the island are indented by several other extensive inlets, into which descend broad and verdant valleys.
The special charm of this piece of coast is that it is bold, much broken and indented, precipices fronting the waves, promontories jutting out, high rocky points commanding extensive views, wild and picturesque, and yet softened by color and graceful shore lines, and the forest comes down to the edge of the sea.
It was crossed and recrossed by animal tracks, cleanly imprinted-the paws of dogs and cats, deeply indented hoof marks that could only be those of deer.
The cliffs edge was no longer a regular line but all indented and broken where the Stone Shapers had sent it down onto the Breakers.
A broad shaft of morning light poured through the open doorway in the ceiling of the room which was about thirty feet square, or roughly square, being irregular in shape, one side curving outward, another being indented by what might have been the corner of another building jutting into it, another alcoved by three sides of an octagon, while the fourth was serpentine in contour.
And above the gray band the hat's slopes were indented in direct answer to the cheekbones beneath and their famished angularity.