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Indent vs Deboss - What's the difference?

indent | deboss |

In transitive terms the difference between indent and deboss

is that indent is to notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper while deboss is to mark or decorate with an indented design or symbol.

As a noun indent

is a cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.

indent

English

(wikipedia indent)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.
  • To be cut, notched, or dented.
  • To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp.
  • (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.
  • (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.
  • * South
  • to indent and drive bargains with the Almighty
  • (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; as, to indent the first line of a paragraph one em; to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first. See indentation, and indention. Normal indent pushes in a line or paragraph. "hanging indent" pulls the line out into the margin.
  • (obsolete) 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.
  • (Wilhelm)

    Antonyms

    * unindent * outdent

    Anagrams

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    deboss

    English

    Verb

  • To mark or decorate with an indented design or symbol.