indent Definition

indent¹
verb

1. printing.typing.
To begin (a line or paragraph) further in from the margin than the main body of text.
2. To divide (a document drawn up in duplicate in two columns) along a zigzag line.
3. To draw up (a document, deed, etc) in duplicate.
(Brit)
tr & intr
4. commerce.
To make out a written order (especially for foreign goods).
5. To indenture someone as an apprentice.
6. To make a notch or notches in something (eg a border).

Thesaurus: mark, serrate, cut, dent, nick.

noun

(Brit)
1a. commerce.
A written order for goods, especially foreign goods;
(Brit)
1b. commerce.
An official requisition for goods.
2. printing.typing.
An indented line or paragraph.
3. A notch.
4. An indenture.

Etymology: 14c: from French endenter, from Latin indentare to make toothlike notches in something, from dens, dentis tooth.

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indent²
verb

indented, indenting
1. To form a dent in something or mark it with dents.

noun

1. A hollow, depression or dent.

Etymology: 14c, meaning ‘to inlay'.