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Indent vs Hollow - What's the difference?

indent | hollow |

As nouns the difference between indent and hollow

is that indent is a cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch while hollow is a small valley between mountains; a low spot surrounded by elevations.

As verbs the difference between indent and hollow

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 hollow is to make a hole in something; to excavate (transitive) or hollow can be to urge or call by shouting; to hollo.

As an adjective hollow is

(of something solid) having an empty space or cavity inside.

As an adverb hollow is

(colloquial) completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.

As an interjection hollow is

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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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    hollow

    English

    Alternative forms

    * holler

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) holw, holh, from (etyl) . More at cave.

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
  • a hollow''' tree; a '''hollow sphere
  • (of a sound) Distant]], eerie; echoing, [[reverberate, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
  • a hollow moan
    (Dryden)
  • (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
  • a hollow victory
  • (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
  • a hollow promise
  • Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
  • * Shakespeare
  • With hollow eye and wrinkled brow.
    Derived terms
    * hollow leg

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.
  • Etymology 2

    (etyl) holow, earlier holgh, from (etyl) . See above.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small valley between mountains; a low spot surrounded by elevations.
  • * Prior
  • Forests grew upon the barren hollows .
  • * Tennyson
  • I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood.
    He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies.
  • A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
  • the hollow of the hand or of a tree
  • (US) A sunken area.
  • (figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
  • a hollow in the pit of one's stomach

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to make a hole in something; to excavate (transitive)
  • Etymology 3

    Compare holler.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To urge or call by shouting; to hollo.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • He has hollowed the hounds.

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (Webster 1913)