English Dictionary

indent

/ˈɪndɛnt/

verb

(transitive) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth / (intransitive) To be cut, notched, or dented. / To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress

He used a knife to indent the wood.

意味（1）

(transitive) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth

to indent the edge of paper

意味（2）

(intransitive) To be cut, notched, or dented.

意味（3）

To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress

indent a smooth surface with a hammer

意味（4）

(historical) 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.

意味（5）

(intransitive, reflexive, obsolete) To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.

, New York, 2001, p.91:

, New York, 2001, p.91: The Polanders indented with Henry, Duke of Anjou, their new-chosen king, to bring with him an hundred families of artificers into Poland.

意味（6）

(transitive, obsolete) To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts.

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

意味（7）

(typography) 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

意味（8）

(obsolete, intransitive) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.

Seeing Orlando, it vnlink'd it selfe,

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

意味（9）

(military, India, dated) 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 ?