Definitions for indent

• Definition
• Anagrams (73)

indent in·dent

Spelling: [verb in-dent; noun in-dent, in- Indent is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in indent (deinnt).

Definitions for indent

noun

1. a toothlike notch or deep recess; indentation.
2. an indention.
3. an indenture.
4. American History. a certificate issued by a state or the federal government at the close of the Revolutionary War for the principal or interest due on the public debt.
5. British. a requisition for stores.
6. a dent.

verb (used with object)

1. to form deep recesses in:
2. to set in or back from the margin, as the first line of a paragraph.
3. to sever (a document drawn up in duplicate) along an irregular line as a means of identification.
4. to cut or tear the edge of (copies of a document) in an irregular way.
5. to make toothlike notches in; notch.
6. to indenture, as an apprentice.
7. British. to draw an order upon.
8. Chiefly British. to order, as commodities.
9. to dent; press in so as to form a dent:
10. to make or form a dent in:

verb (used without object)

1. to form a recess.
2. Chiefly British. to make out an order or requisition in duplicate.
3. Obsolete. to draw upon a person or thing for something. to enter into an agreement by indenture; make a compact.

Origin of indent

1350-1400; Middle English; back formation from indented having toothlike notches, Middle English Medieval Latin indentātus, equivalent to Latin in- in-² + de

Examples for indent

He made a copy of the indent in triplicate, as well as an office copy.

The firths of Forth and Clyde indent the country very deeply on the east and west, almost dividing it into two parts.

The pupil may now, with a pattern-wheel or tracer, indent or mark a line or narrow groove in the outline of the pattern.

Furthermore, if a gripped the pipe at or too near to b, it would be apt to indent it.

Small streams empty into all of the numerous deep water gulfs and bays that indent the north coast of Oriente.

Well, I was just making up an indent, and might as well include your specific if you really needed it.

The Historian put in an indent asking for two more windows, and succeeded in obtaining them.

And 'e told the orderly to indent me for a brand new uniform.

They are very cautious sailors, and on the least sign of foul weather they run into one of the creeks which indent the coast.

Ay, wisdom is justified o' her children; an' any other man than me wad ha' made the indent eight hunder.