INDENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indent mean? 

• INDENT (noun)
  The noun INDENT has 2 senses:

1. an order for goods to be exported or imported

2. the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line

  Familiarity information: INDENT used as a noun is rare.

• INDENT (verb)
  The verb INDENT has 5 senses:

1. set in from the margin

2. cut or tear along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for authentication

3. make a depression into

4. notch the edge of or make jagged

5. bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant

  Familiarity information: INDENT used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An order for goods to be exported or imported

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("indent" is a kind of...):

order; purchase order (a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The space left between the margin and the start of an indented line

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

indent; indentation; indention; indenture

Hypernyms ("indent" is a kind of...):

blank space; place; space (a blank area)

Derivation:

indent (set in from the margin)

• INDENT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they indent ... he / she / it indents
Past simple: indented   
Past participle: indented   
-ing form: indenting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Set in from the margin

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

Indent the paragraphs of a letter

Hypernyms (to "indent" is one way to...):

arrange; format (set (printed matter) into a specific format)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

indent; indentation (the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cut or tear along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for authentication

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

indent the documents

Hypernyms (to "indent" is one way to...):

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make a depression into

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

dent; indent

Context example:

The bicycle dented my car

Hypernyms (to "indent" is one way to...):

bend; deform; flex; turn; twist (cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form)

"Indent" entails doing...:

hit (deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

indentation (the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Notch the edge of or make jagged

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "indent" is one way to...):

notch (cut or make a notch into)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "indent"):

recess (make a recess in)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

indentation (the act of cutting into an edge with toothlike notches or angular incisions)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

indent; indenture

Context example:

an indentured servant

Hypernyms (to "indent" is one way to...):

bind; hold; obligate; oblige (bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

indenture (a contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term)

 Context examples 

A relative measurement (ratio or percentage) of the metamyelocytes (small, myelocytic neutrophils with an indented nucleus) to all leukocytes in a biological specimen.

(Metamyelocyte to Leukocyte Ratio Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A relative measurement (ratio or percentage ) of the metamyelocytes (small, myelocytic neutrophils with an indented nucleus) to total cells in a biological specimen (for example a bone marrow specimen).

(Metamyelocyte to Total Cell Ratio Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Its nucleus is indented and the chromatin clumped and dense.

(Metamyelocyte, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the metamyelocytes (small, myelocytic neutrophils with an indented nucleus) in a biological specimen.

(Metamyelocyte Count, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A mature lymphocyte varies in size from 7 to 15 micrometer in diameter and is round or ovoid, but may be notched or slightly indented.

(Mature Lymphocyte, NCI Thesaurus)

Large, phagocytic mononuclear leukocytes produced in the vertebrate bone marrow and released into the blood; contain a large, oval or somewhat indented nucleus surrounded by voluminous cytoplasm and numerous organelles.

(Monocyte, NCI Thesaurus)

A small pocket, vesicle, cave, or recess communicating with the outside of a cell and extending inward, indenting the cytoplasm and the cell membrane.

(Caveola, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by an abundant pale cytoplasm, indented nuclei with inconspicuous nucleoli, and open chromatin.

(Monocytoid B-Lymphocyte, NCI Thesaurus)

Evidently, as they had dragged the stone up they had thrust the chunks of wood into the chink, until at last, when the opening was large enough to crawl through, they would hold it open by a billet placed lengthwise, which might very well become indented at the lower end, since the whole weight of the stone would press it down on to the edge of this other slab.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)