indent

/ˈɪndɛnt/ noun, verb

Forms indents indenting indented

1. noun A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
2. noun A stamp; an impression.
3. noun 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. noun A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
5. verb (transitive) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth “to indent the edge of paper”
6. verb (intransitive) To be cut, notched, or dented.
7. verb To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress “indent a smooth surface with a hammer”
8. verb (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.
9. verb (intransitive, reflexive, obsolete) To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.
10. verb (transitive, obsolete) To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts. “to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant”
11. verb (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”
12. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “indent”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details