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"text": "to indent the edge of paper",
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"(transitive) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth"
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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",
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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",
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"roman": "pravja vdlǎbnatina",
"sense": "to stamp or to press in",
"word": "правя вдлъбнатина"
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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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"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?",
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"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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"word": "tehdä sopimus"
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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",
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"text": "to indent the first line of a paragraph one em",
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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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"sense": "typography: to begin a line or lines at a greater or less distance from the margin",
"word": "правя абзац"
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"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"
}
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