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"A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch."
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"feminine"
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"A stamp; an impression."
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"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."
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"A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army."
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"text": "to indent the edge of paper",
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"To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth"
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"(transitive) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth"
],
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"_dis1": "75 4 1 5 7 1 4 1 2",
"code": "bg",
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"roman": "nazǎbvam",
"sense": "to cut into points like a row of teeth",
"word": "назъбвам"
},
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"_dis1": "75 4 1 5 7 1 4 1 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cut into points like a row of teeth",
"word": "hammastaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 4 1 5 7 1 4 1 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to cut into points like a row of teeth",
"word": "dentar"
}
]
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"To be cut, notched, or dented."
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"(intransitive) To be cut, notched, or dented."
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{
"text": "indent a smooth surface with a hammer",
"type": "example"
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{
"text": "to indent wax with a stamp",
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"To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress"
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"_dis1": "0 0 91 3 0 0 3 3 0",
"code": "bg",
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"roman": "otpečatvam",
"sense": "to stamp or to press in",
"word": "отпечатвам"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 91 3 0 0 3 3 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pravja vdlǎbnatina",
"sense": "to stamp or to press in",
"word": "правя вдлъбнатина"
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"_dis1": "0 0 91 3 0 0 3 3 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to stamp or to press in",
"word": "kolota"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 91 3 0 0 3 3 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to stamp or to press in",
"word": "leimata"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 91 3 0 0 3 3 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to stamp or to press in",
"word": "eindrücken"
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"sense": "to stamp or to press in",
"word": "einkerben"
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"sense": "to stamp or to press in",
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"sense": "to stamp or to press in",
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"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."
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"(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."
],
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"historical"
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "leikata kahtia"
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"ref": ", New York, 2001, p.91",
"text": "The Polanders indented with Henry, Duke of Anjou, their new-chosen king, to bring with him an hundred families of artificers into Poland."
},
{
"ref": "1698, Robert South, Twelve Sermons upon Several Subjects and Occasions, London: Thomas Bennet, page 28",
"text": "And is this now the Person who is to oblige his Maker? to indent and drive bargains with the Almighty?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "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,\n[…] 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."
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"To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract."
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"(intransitive, reflexive, obsolete) To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract."
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"_dis1": "3 1 3 3 78 4 3 2 2",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to formally commit to doing something",
"word": "tehdä sopimus"
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{
"_dis1": "3 1 3 3 78 4 3 2 2",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to formally commit to doing something",
"word": "sitoutua"
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"_dis1": "3 1 3 3 78 4 3 2 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to formally commit to doing something",
"word": "einwilligen"
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{
"text": "to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant",
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"To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts."
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"(transitive, obsolete) To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts."
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"word": "tehdä oppisopimus"
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"word": "palkata"
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"sense": "to engage someone",
"word": "anwerben"
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"_dis1": "6 2 6 5 10 61 4 1 4",
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "to engage someone",
"word": "anheuern"
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"Writing",
"Industries",
"Human behaviour",
"Language",
"Business",
"Human",
"Communication",
"Economics",
"Society",
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"text": "to indent the first line of a paragraph one em",
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},
{
"text": "to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first",
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}
],
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"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."
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"(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."
],
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"media",
"publishing",
"typography"
],
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pravja abzac",
"sense": "typography: to begin a line or lines at a greater or less distance from the margin",
"word": "правя абзац"
},
{
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "typography: to begin a line or lines at a greater or less distance from the margin",
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"word": "sagnar"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "typography: to begin a line or lines at a greater or less distance from the margin",
"word": "odsadit"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "typography: to begin a line or lines at a greater or less distance from the margin",
"word": "inspringen"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 2 5 4 2 76 3 5",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "typography: to begin a line or lines at a greater or less distance from the margin",
"word": "sisentää"
},
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"_dis1": "2 1 2 5 4 2 76 3 5",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "typography: to begin a line or lines at a greater or less distance from the margin",
"word": "einrücken"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "typography: to begin a line or lines at a greater or less distance from the margin",
"word": "neke"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "typography: to begin a line or lines at a greater or less distance from the margin",
"word": "nuku"
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"_dis1": "2 1 2 5 4 2 76 3 5",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "typography: to begin a line or lines at a greater or less distance from the margin",
"word": "indentar"
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"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "typography: to begin a line or lines at a greater or less distance from the margin",
"word": "odsadiť"
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"_dis1": "2 1 2 5 4 2 76 3 5",
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"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to stamp or to press in",
"word": "vyhĺbiť"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to stamp or to press in",
"word": "hĺbiť"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cut the two halves of a document in duplicate",
"word": "leikata kahtia"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to formally commit to doing something",
"word": "tehdä sopimus"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to formally commit to doing something",
"word": "sitoutua"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to formally commit to doing something",
"word": "einwilligen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "in apprenticeship",
"sense": "to engage someone",
"word": "tehdä oppisopimus"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to engage someone",
"word": "palkata"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to engage someone",
"word": "anwerben"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to engage someone",
"word": "anheuern"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pravja abzac",
"sense": "typography: to begin a line or lines at a greater or less distance from the margin",
"word": "правя абзац"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "typography: to begin a line or lines at a greater or less distance from the margin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sagnar"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "typography: to begin a line or lines at a greater or less distance from the margin",
"word": "odsadit"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "typography: to begin a line or lines at a greater or less distance from the margin",
"word": "inspringen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "typography: to begin a line or lines at a greater or less distance from the margin",
"word": "sisentää"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "typography: to begin a line or lines at a greater or less distance from the margin",
"word": "einrücken"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "typography: to begin a line or lines at a greater or less distance from the margin",
"word": "neke"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "typography: to begin a line or lines at a greater or less distance from the margin",
"word": "nuku"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "typography: to begin a line or lines at a greater or less distance from the margin",
"word": "indentar"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "typography: to begin a line or lines at a greater or less distance from the margin",
"word": "odsadiť"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "typography: to begin a line or lines at a greater or less distance from the margin",
"word": "odsadzovať"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "typography: to begin a line or lines at a greater or less distance from the margin",
"word": "sangrar"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"indent"
],
"word": "indent"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "indent",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin non-lemma forms",
"Latin verb forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "indō"
}
],
"glosses": [
"third-person plural future active indicative of indō"
],
"links": [
[
"indō",
"indo#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"active",
"form-of",
"future",
"indicative",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"word": "indent"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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