To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something)
The Polanders indented with Henry, Duke of Anjou, their new-chosen king, to bring with him an hundred families of artificers into Poland.
To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or less distance from the margin; as, to indent the first line of a paragraph one em; to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first. See indentation, and indention. Normal indent pushes in a line or paragraph. "hanging indent" pulls the line out into the margin
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
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
To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp
To begin a line with a given amount of white space, such as paragraph indentation to top
bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant; "an indentured servant"
{i} notch, incision; depression, dent; indentation, blank space left between a margin and the beginning of a printed or written line; act of indenting a document; request for supplies (British)
To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or less distance from the margin; as, to indent the first line of a paragraph one em; to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first
an order for goods to be exported or imported notch the edge of or make jagged make a depression into; "The bicycle dented my car"
The distance between text boundaries and page margins Positive indents make the text area narrower than the space between margins Negative indents allow text to extend into the margins A paragraph can have left, right, and first-line indents
An integer that indicates the indentation from the left margin to the first character in the paragraph
When you indent a line of writing, you start it further away from the edge of the paper than all the other lines. Indent the second line. to start a line of writing further towards the middle of the page than other lines (endenter, from dent )
A requisition for goods, enumerating conditions of the sale Acceptance of an indent by a seller constitutes his agreement to the conditions of the sale
to move the beginning of a line of text to the right You indent the first line of each new paragraph Also, the second line of a reference entry must be indented
{f} make a notch, make an incision; form a deep recess; create a dent in; leave a blank space between a margin and the beginning of a printed or written line
an order for goods to be exported or imported notch the edge of or make jagged make a depression into; "The bicycle dented my car" cut or tear along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for authentication; "indent the documents" set in from the margin; "Indent the paragraphs of a letter
Paragraph formatting that causes all lines of text but the first in a paragraph to be indented a certain amount No matter what is added or deleted from the paragraph the indent remains Try doing that with spaces or tabs and see what happens when you change the content of the paragraph Found under Format, Paragraph, Special in MS Word, or Format, Paragraph, Hanging Indent in Word Perfect Select (highlight) the paragraph(s) you wish to apply this to prior to choosing hanging indent This only works on a paragraph that ends with a single hard return
A document style in which the first line of a paragraph is aligned with the left margin, and the remaining lines are all indented an equal amount This is sometimes referred to as outdenting This is an effective style for displaying lists of information
Typically refers to text that is indented farther on the left than the first line of text (i e , a numbered list with turnovers aligned under the first word after the identifier)
A term used to identify the placement of a shorter mark in relation to other marks inthe field A triple is thrown, the first mark is 200 yards away, the second mark 100 yards away, and the third mark is 250 yards away, the second mark is called "indented" because the dog must go long, then short, then long again A difficult concept to teach
If something is indented, its edge or surface is uneven because parts of it have been worn away or cut away. an indented edge or surface has cuts or marks in it (Partly from INDENT; partly from indent (14-21 centuries), from dent)
{i} one who makes a notch or notches; one who makes a dent or impression in a surface; one who indents, one who leaves a blank space between a margin and the beginning of a printed or written line