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An indented edge or surface is not smooth and straight. It has cuts, notches, or places pressed in: a coastline with little bays, a leaf with a edge, a tin with a thumb-mark, a key with bites along one side. The "cuts" may be neat, as if someone made a zigzag on purpose, or they may just be marks left behind. The picture to hold is a bite taken out of a clean line. People also say a line of writing is indented when it starts further in from the margin — same family of meaning, a bite out of the straight edge — but this sense is the physical look of the edge or surface itself.
有凹痕的、鋸齒狀的、凹進去的
組成indent (to cut a notch or press in) + -ed.
同家族的字
- indentthe verb: to cut a notch, press in, or start a line further from the margin
- indentationa notch, a pressed-in mark, or that extra space at the start of a line
- indenturenamed for a jagged, tooth-like cut that once proved two halves of a contract belonged together
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
indentedadj/ɪnˈdɛntɪd/
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Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; dented on the surface; jagged; notched; stamped in.
- 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; […]
- The old brown photograph with the photographer’s indented seal in the corner showed the long ranks of the cavalry […]
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Having an irregular, uneven; sinuous; undulating.
- a heavily indented coastline
- Seeing Orlando, it [the snake] unlinked itself / And with indented glides did slip away / Into a bush; […]
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governmentheraldryhobbiesNotched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated.
- an indented border or ordinary
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Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured.
- an indented servant
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biologynatural-scienceszoologyNotched along the margin with a different colour, like the feathers of some birds.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。