different between indent vs ident

English

Etymology

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 provide with teeth”), from en- (“in-, en-”) + dent (“tooth”), from Latin d?ns.

Pronunciation

• (noun) IPA^(key): /??nd?nt/, /?n?d?nt/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /?n?d?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

indent (plural indents)

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.

Translations

Verb

indent (third-person singular simple present indents, present participle indenting, simple past and past participle indented)

1. (transitive) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth

2. (intransitive) To be cut, notched, or dented.
3. To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress

4. (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.
5. (intransitive, reflexive, obsolete) To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.
   • , New York, 2001, p.91:

     The Polanders indented with Henry, Duke of Anjou, their new-chosen king, to bring with him an hundred families of artificers into Poland.

   • 1698, Robert South, Twelve Sermons upon Several Subjects and Occasions, London: Thomas Bennet, p. 28,^[1]

     And is this now the Person who is to oblige his Maker? to indent and drive bargains with the Almighty?

   • 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, pp. xlii-xliii,^[2]

     […] he accidentally met with the commander of a trading vessel bound to Barbadoes, and being actuated by an adventurous spirit, [he] bargained for a passage by indenting himself to serve a planter for four years after his arrival in that island.

6. (transitive, obsolete) To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts.

   to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant

7. (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.

8. (obsolete, intransitive) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
9. (military, India, dated) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.

   King Dasharatha requests the Sages to conduct the Vedic ritual for which the sages indent paraphernalia, which the ministers are ordered to supply forthwith Ramayana.

Antonyms

• unindent
• outdent

Translations

Anagrams

• Dinnet, dentin, intend, tinned

Latin

Verb

indent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of ind?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?d?nt/

Etymology 1

From a later form of ithand, itself an alteration (due to assimilation to suffix -and) of Middle English ithen, from Old Norse iðinn (“assiduous, diligent”), from iðja, iðna (“to do, perform”), from ið (“a restless motion”), equivalent to ithe +? -and and/or ithe +? -en. Cognate with Icelandic iðinn (“diligent”), Norwegian idig (“busy”), Danish id (“pursuit, calling, business”). More at ithand.

Alternative forms

• eident (Scotland)

Adjective

ident (comparative more ident, superlative most ident)

1. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Diligent; persistent.

Derived terms

• idently

Etymology 2

Shortened form of identification.

Noun

ident (plural idents)

1. Identification.
2. (radio, television) A brief audio or audiovisual sequence serving to identify the broadcaster.
3. (Internet) A protocol serving to identify the user of a particular TCP connection, used especially on IRC networks.
4. Identifier. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Anagrams

• denti-, detin, indet., teind, tiend, tined