Indent vs Jingle - What's the difference?
indent | jingle |
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.
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.
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(obsolete) To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts.
(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.
The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself.
A short tune or verse, especially one used to advertise something.
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A carriage drawn by horses.
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To make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
To cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
(dated) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
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As nouns the difference between indent and jingle
is that indent is a cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch while jingle is the sound of metal or glass clattering against itself.As verbs the difference between indent and jingle
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 jingle is to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.indent
English
(wikipedia indent)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- The Polanders indented with Henry, Duke of Anjou, their new-chosen king, to bring with him an hundred families of artificers into Poland.
- to indent and drive bargains with the Almighty
- to indent''' a young man to a shoemaker; to '''indent a servant
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Antonyms
* unindent * outdentAnagrams
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English
Noun
(en noun)- He heard the jingle of her keys in the door and turned off the screen.
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Verb
- The beads jingled as she walked.
- She jingled the beads as she walked.
- Jingling street ballads.
