indent

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
  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.
动词 v.
  1. To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth transitive
    — to indent the edge of paper
  2. To be cut, notched, or dented. intransitive
  3. To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
    — indent a smooth surface with a hammer
  4. 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. historical
  5. To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract. intransitive,obsolete,reflexive
    — The Polanders indented with Henry, Duke of Anjou, their new-chosen king, to bring with him an hundred families of artificers into Poland.
  6. To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts. obsolete,transitive
    — to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant
  7. 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
  8. To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag. intransitive,obsolete
    — Seeing Orlando, it vnlink'd it selfe, And with indented glides, did slip away
  9. To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores. India,Singapore
    — What is the rule observed in India in indenting upon England for military stores ?

词形变化

indents plural indents present,singular,third-person indenting participle,present indented participle,past indented past

词汇关系

反义词
unindent outdent dedent
衍生词
dedent indentwise indentable indentation indenter indentment hanging indent

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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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