indents
Meaning of indents
noun
- A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
- A stamp; an impression.
- 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.
- A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
- To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth
to indent the edge of paper
- To be cut, notched, or dented.
- To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
indent a smooth surface with a hammer
- 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.
- To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.
- To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts.
to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant
- 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.
to indent the first line of a paragraph one em
- To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
- To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
Information about indents
- The singular form of indents is: indent.
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Hyphenation of indents
in-dents
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- indents is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Anagrams of indents
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