indenting
present participle ofindent
indent
verb[T]
specializeduk/ɪnˈdent/us/ɪnˈdent/indentverb[T](SPACE)
[T]publishing
to make aspaceat theedgeor on thesurfaceof something:
Each newparagraphshould be indented about twocentimetresfromthemargin.
Publishing: printing & word processing
- 3-D printing
- backspace
- bed
- boldface
- boldfaced
- Braille
- compose
- indent
- indentation
- inline
- intaglio printing
- italic
- print run
- printsomethingout
- printed
- printing
- printing press
- rubber stamp
- stamp
- xerography
indentverb[T](REQUEST)
[I]businessUK
to make anofficialrequestforgoods:
We indentedfortheenginespareslastmonth.
Buying
- acquire
- acquisition
- acquisitiveness
- approval
- bid
- bidding
- bidding war
- bite
- invest
- misorder
- money-off
- order form
- ordersomethingin
- outbid
- retail therapy
- ROBO
- ROPO
- send
- send (off/away) for/tosomething
- slate
Examplesofindenting
indenting
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The last four lines of figure 2 illustrate allindentingpossibilities for continuing the last statement.
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The offside rule does not force a specific way ofindentingprograms, so we are still free to use our own personal styles.
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Conversely, reducing the contrast of, orindentingthe aper ture's edges, selectively reduced the strength of terminator motion signals and, consequently, the amplitude of the later component.
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Finally, the typesetting of this book is unique in my experience, in that paragraphs are not marked either byindentingthe first line or by space between adjacent paragraphs.
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Is it impossible to get these simple and obvious articles of furniture withoutindentingfor them from military supplies?
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The method ofindentingfor stores is different.
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Out of those cases were taken telescopic sights for which they had beenindentingfor nine months in order that they might practise with them.
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Byindentingthe sides of the structure three feet, he opened a slender airshaft between abutting buildings.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.By late 1929, instantaneous recordings were being made byindenting, as opposed to engraving, a groove into the surface of a bare aluminum disc.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As a result, techniques testing material hardness byindentinga material with an impression have been developed to determine such properties.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.With a hard enter, paragraph-break formatting may be applied (eitherindentingor vertical whitespace).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Furthermore,indentingthe braces emphasizes that they are subordinate to the control statement.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Threaded forums can display relationships between message topics and associated replies, such as byindentingreplies and placing them below the post they reference.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It featured automaticindenting, pretty-printing of source code, and integration with the compiler environment.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Instead of using a shearing action as with scissors, diagonal pliers cut byindentingand wedging the wire apart.
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- lack of supervision
- lack of supervision
- lack of supply
- lack of supply
- lack of support
- lack of sympathy
- lack of sympathy
- lack of tact
- lack of talent
- lack of training
- lack of transparency
- lack of transparency
- lack of transportation
- lack of transportation
- lack of trust
- lack of trust
- lack of understanding
- lack of uniformity
- lack of unity
- lack of urgency
- lack of visibility
- lack of visibility
- lack of vision
- lack of will
- lack of willingness