indent
verb
• start (a line of text) or position (a block of text) further from the margin than the main part of the text.
• "type a paragraph of text and indent the first line"
Similar:
move to the right,
move further from the margin,
start in from the margin,
• form deep recesses or notches in (a line or surface).
• "a coastline indented by many fjords"
Similar:
notch,
nick,
make an indentation in,
make notches/nicks in,
scallop,
serrate,
pink,
cut,
scratch,
gash,
slit,
snick,
gouge,
groove,
furrow,
dent,
mark,
score,
incise,
carve,
engrave,
deboss,
• make a requisition or written order for something.
• "we were indenting for paper clips one by one in those days"
Similar:
order,
put in an order for,
requisition,
apply for,
put in for,
request,
put in a request for,
ask for,
claim,
put in a claim for,
call for,
demand,
• divide (a document drawn up in duplicate) into its two copies with a zigzag line, thus ensuring identification and preventing forgery.
indent
noun
• an official order or requisition for goods.
• "Hawthorn refused to approve the indent for silk scarves"
• a space left by indenting text.
• "six-character indents"
• an indentation.
• "every indent in the coastline"
• an indenture.
Origin:
late Middle English (as a verb in the sense ‘give a zigzag outline to, divide by a zigzag line’): from Anglo-Norman French endenter or medieval Latin indentare, from en-, in- ‘into’ + Latin dens, dent- ‘tooth’.
indent
verb
• make a dent or impression in (something).
• "use a stylus to indent the leather"
