indent

Etymology
Partly from, equivalent to (see ); partly from , , from , from  + , from.

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.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Hebrew:, אינדנטציה, , אבזץ
 * Indonesian: indentasi
 * Tibetan: ཉག་འབུར, ཉག་ག


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Slovak: odtlačok, stopa, preliačina


 * German: Beschaffungsauftrag
 * Indonesian:

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)  To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.
 * , New York, 2001, p.91:
 * The Polanders indented with Henry, Duke of Anjou, their new-chosen king, to bring with him an hundred families of artificers into Poland.
 * 1) * 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, pp.xlii-xliii,
 * he accidentally met with the commander of a trading vessel bound to Barbadoes, and being actuated by an adventurous spirit, [he] bargained for a passage by indenting himself to serve a planter for four years after his arrival in that island.
 * 1)  To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3)  To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
 * 4)  To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
 * 5) * 1832 May 23, examining  in the House of Commons:
 * What is the rule observed in India in indenting upon England for military stores ?
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
 * 3)  To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
 * 4) * 1832 May 23, examining  in the House of Commons:
 * What is the rule observed in India in indenting upon England for military stores ?
 * 1)  To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
 * 2) * 1832 May 23, examining  in the House of Commons:
 * What is the rule observed in India in indenting upon England for military stores ?

Derived terms

 * hanging indent

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: hammastaa
 * Portuguese:


 * Bulgarian:, правя вдлъбнатина
 * Finnish: kolota,
 * German: ,
 * Slovak: preliačiť, preliačovať, vyraziť, raziť, vyhĺbiť, hĺbiť


 * Finnish: leikata kahtia


 * Finnish: tehdä sopimus,
 * German:


 * Finnish: tehdä oppisopimus ;
 * German: ,


 * Bulgarian: правя абзац
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: odsadit
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Maori: neke, nuku
 * Portuguese:
 * Slovak: odsadiť, odsadzovať
 * Spanish: