indent

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
2. isim A stamp; an impression.
3. isim 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. isim A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
5. fiil To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth

   “to indent the edge of paper”

6. fiil To be cut, notched, or dented.
7. fiil To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress

   “indent a smooth surface with a hammer”

8. fiil 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.
9. fiil To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.

   “The Polanders indented with Henry, Duke of Anjou, their new-chosen king, to bring with him an hundred families of artificers into Poland.”

10. fiil To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts.

    “to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant”

11. fiil 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.

    “to indent the first line of a paragraph one em”

12. fiil To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.

    “Seeing Orlando, it vnlink'd it selfe, And with indented glides, did slip away”

13. fiil To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.

    “What is the rule observed in India in indenting upon England for military stores ?”