indented
English
Etymology
From indent + -ed.
Adjective
indented (comparative more indented, superlative most indented)
- Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; dented on the surface; jagged; notched; stamped in.
- Synonyms: erose, serrated; see also Thesaurus:notched
- 1896, Joseph Conrad, chapter III, in An Outcast of the Islands, London: T. Fisher Unwin […], OCLC 558805776, part V, page 352:
- He saw the horrible form among the big trees, in the network of creepers in the fantastic outlines of leaves, of the great indented leaves that seemed to be so many enormous hands with big broad palms, with stiff fingers outspread to lay hold of him; […]
- 1958, Greene, Graham, chapter 2, in Our Man in Havana, part 4, New York: Pocket Books, published 1974, page 143,:
- The old brown photograph with the photographer’s indented seal in the corner showed the long ranks of the cavalry […]
- Having an irregular, uneven; sinuous; undulating.
- a heavily indented coastline
- c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- Seeing Orlando, it [the snake] unlinked itself / And with indented glides did slip away / Into a bush; […]
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, lines 494-497:
- So spake the Enemie of Mankind, enclos'd / In Serpent, Inmate bad, and toward Eve / Address'd his way, not with indented wave, / Prone on the ground, as since, but on his reare, […]
- (heraldry) Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated.
- an indented border or ordinary
- Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured.
- an indented servant
- (zoology) Notched along the margin with a different colour, like the feathers of some birds.
See also
- dancetté
Verb
indented
- simple past tense and past participle of indent
Anagrams
- detinned, intended