Indented: Definition and part of speech

Indented

  1. imp. & p. p. of Indent
  2. a. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.
  3. a. Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating.
  4. a. Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary.
  5. a. Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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