different between indented vs undented

English

Verb

indented

1. simple past tense and past participle of indent

Adjective

indented (comparative more indented, superlative most indented)

1. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.
2. Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act IV, Scene 3,^[3]

     Seeing Orlando, it [the snake] unlinked itself

     And with indented glides did slip away

     Into a bush;

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 8, lines 494-497,^[4]

     So spake the Enemie of Mankind, enclos’d

     In Serpent, Inmate bad, and toward Eve

     Address’d his way, not with indented wave,

     Prone on the ground, as since, but on his reare,

3. (heraldry) Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated.

4. Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured.

5. (zoology) Notched along the margin with a different color, like the feathers of some birds.

Synonyms

• (cut in the edge into points): erose, serrated; see also Thesaurus:notched

Anagrams

• detinned, intended

English

Etymology

un- +? dented

Adjective

undented (not comparable)

1. Not dented.

Anagrams

• untended