Indent vs Notch - What's the difference?
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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.
A V-shaped cut.
Such a cut, used for keeping a record
An indentation.
A mountain pass; a defile
(informal) A level or degree.
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To cut a notch in (something).
To record (a score or similar) by making notches on something.
To join by means of notches.
To achieve (something).
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In transitive terms the difference between indent and notch
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 notch is to achieve (something).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
(es)- ''The notches in that tribe's warrior axe handles stand for killed enemies.
- ''This car is a notch better than the other.
World Cup 2014: Uruguay sink England as Suárez makes his mark," guardian.co.uk , 20 June:
- A better team might also have done more to expose Uruguay’s occasionally brittle defence, but England’s speed of thought and movement in their attacking positions was a good notch or two down from the Italy game.
Derived terms
* notch on one's bedpost, notch on the bedpost * notchback * notchboard * top notchVerb
(es)- The tribe's hunters notch their kills by notches on each's axe's handle.
- The team notched a pair of shutout wins on Sunday.
