Crossword clues for indented
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indent \In*dent"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indented; p. pr. & vb. n. Indenting.] [OE. endenten to notch, fit in, OF. endenter, LL. indentare, fr. L. in + dens, dentis, tooth. See Tooth, and cf. Indenture.]
To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.
To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp.
[Cf. Indenture.] To bind out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant.
(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.
(Mil.) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores. [India]
--Wilhelm.
Indented \In*dent"ed\, a.
Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.
Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating.
--Milton. Shak.(Her.) Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary.
Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant.
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(Zo["o]l.) Notched along the margin with a different color, as the feathers of some birds.
Indented line (Fort.), a line with alternate long and short faces, with salient and receding angles, each face giving a flanking fire along the front of the next.
Wiktionary
1 Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface. 2 Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating. 3 (context heraldry English) Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated. 4 Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured. 5 (context zoology English) Notched along the margin with a different color, like the feathers of some birds. v
(en-past of: indent)
WordNet
adj. having repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding" [syn: embattled, crenelated, crenelate, crenellated, crenellate]
having the central portion lower than the margin; "a depressed pustule" [syn: depressed]
Usage examples of "indented".
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.
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.
Two low, curved, gravelly points had been formed with surprising regularity by the counteracting forces of the northerly winds and the swift current, and, inclining from the storms of the lake, formed two coves within the river: that on the western side was the most deeply indented.
The road beyond the ford was muddy for several hundred yards, deeply indented with impressions of hoof and wheel, of bootsole and sandal and bare foot.
It was a baroque pearl, indented, even lumpy, but with a luster that no years could dim.
At one point it seemed to be indented into his leg and was covered by a large brown spot.
Along the indented coast of Port Bunche were four constables' stations.