indent

verb

/ɪnˈdent/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they indent	/ɪnˈdent/ /ɪnˈdent/
he / she / it indents	/ɪnˈdents/ /ɪnˈdents/
past simple indented	/ɪnˈdentɪd/ /ɪnˈdentɪd/
past participle indented	/ɪnˈdentɪd/ /ɪnˈdentɪd/
-ing form indenting	/ɪnˈdentɪŋ/ /ɪnˈdentɪŋ/

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indent something to start a line of print or block of text further away from the edge of the page than the other lines
- The first line of each paragraph should be indented.
Word Originlate Middle English (as a verb in the sense ‘give a zigzag outline to, divide by a zigzag line’): from Anglo-Norman French endenter or medieval Latin indentare, from en-, in- ‘into’ + Latin dens, dent- ‘tooth’.

indent

noun

/ˈɪndent/

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indent (for something) (business, especially British English) an official order for goods or equipment
(also indentation)
a space left at the beginning of a line of print or writing

Word Originlate Middle English (as a verb in the sense ‘give a zigzag outline to, divide by a zigzag line’): from Anglo-Norman French endenter or medieval Latin indentare, from en-, in- ‘into’ + Latin dens, dent- ‘tooth’.