Meaning

4 senses

  1. A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.

    Vertiefung, Kerbe, Einbuchtung

  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.

    Beschaffungsauftrag

More definitions
  • an order for goods to be exported or imported
  • the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line

Examples

2 sentences

  1. The sea indented the coastline.

    bekindtoall · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  2. Remove the tab at the beginning. The line should not be indented.

    deEntfernen Sie den Tabulator am Zeilenbeginn. Die Zeile sollte nicht eingerückt sein. — brauchinet

    AlanF_US · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Translations

1 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 2
A cut or notch:
Order for supplies:

Origin

Partly from Middle English indenten (“to dent in”), equivalent to in- + dent (see dent); p

Partly from Middle English indenten (“to dent in”), equivalent to in- + dent (see dent); partly from Middle English indenten, endenten, from Old French endenter (“to cut notches into”), from en- (“in-, en-”) + dent (“tooth”), from Latin dēns.

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Forms

plural: indents
Singularindent
Pluralindents

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

6 related words
Deriveddedentindentwiseindentableindentationindenterindentment

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
indefiniteC1indefinitelyC1indelibleindentationindentureindependenceA2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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