Indent vs Scar - 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.
To mark the skin permanently.
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To form a scar.
(figurative) To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.
In transitive terms the difference between indent and scar
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 scar is to mark the skin permanently.In intransitive terms the difference between indent and scar
is that indent is to be cut, notched, or dented while scar is to form a scar.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
(wikipedia scar)Etymology 1
Conflation of (etyl) . More at shard.Synonyms
* cicatriceVerb
(scarr)- Yet I'll not shed her blood; / Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow.
- Seeing his parents die in a car crash scarred him for life.