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indent
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)
- A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
- A stamp; an impression.
- 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.
- 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)
- (transitive) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth
- (intransitive) To be cut, notched, or dented.
- To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
- (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.
- (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.
- , New York, 2001, p.91:
- (transitive, obsolete) To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts.
- to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant
- (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.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
- (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
- third-person plural future active indicative of ind?
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pock
English
Etymology
From Middle English pok, from Old English poc, pocc (“pock; pustule; ulcer”), from Proto-Germanic *pukkaz, *pukk? (“pock; swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *b?ew- (“to grow; swell”). Cognate with Dutch pok (“pock”), Low German Pocke (“pock”), German Pocke (“pock”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p?k/
- (General American) IPA(key): /p?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Noun
pock (plural pocks)
- A pus-filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.
- Any pit, especially one formed as a scar
Derived terms
- pockmark
- pox
Translations
Verb
pock (third-person singular simple present pocks, present participle pocking, simple past and past participle pocked)
- To scar or mark with pits
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