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Invoice vs Indent - What's the difference?

invoice | indent |

In lang=en terms the difference between invoice and indent

is that invoice is to bill; to issue an invoice while indent is to be cut, notched, or dented.

As nouns the difference between invoice and indent

is that invoice is a bill; a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer indicating the products, quantities and agreed prices for products or services that the seller has already provided the buyer with an invoice indicates that, unless paid in advance, payment is due by the buyer to the seller, according to the agreed terms while indent is a cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.

As verbs the difference between invoice and indent

is that invoice is to bill; to issue an invoice while indent is to notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.

invoice

English

(wikipedia invoice)

Noun

(en noun)
  • a bill; a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer indicating the products, quantities and agreed prices for products or services that the seller has already provided the buyer with. An invoice indicates that, unless paid in advance, payment is due by the buyer to the seller, according to the agreed terms.
  • The lot or set of goods as shipped or received.
    • The merchant receives a large invoice of goods.

    Synonyms

    * (lot or set of goods) shipment

    Verb

    (invoic)
  • to bill; to issue an invoice

    • 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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