Dictionary Entry
indent
indent is a 6-letter English word with 19 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 19 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.
- 2transitive verb
To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp.
- 3transitive verb
To bind out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant.
- 4transitive verb
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 Indention.
- 5transitive verb
To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
- 6intransitive verb
To be cut, notched, or dented.
- 7intransitive verb
To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
- 8intransitive verb
To contract; to bargain or covenant.
- 9noun
A cut or notch in the man gin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
- 10noun
A stamp; an impression.
- 11noun
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.
- 12noun
A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
- 13noun
the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
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- 14noun
an order for goods to be exported or imported
- 15verb
bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant
"an indentured servant"
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- 16verb
notch the edge of or make jagged
- 17verb
make a depression into
"The bicycle dented my car"
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- 18verb
cut or tear along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for authentication
"indent the documents"
- 19verb
set in from the margin
"Indent the paragraphs of a letter"
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