INDENTURES Synonyms: 83 Similar and Opposite Words

indentures

noun

plural of indenture

as in holes

a sunken area forming a separate space the dropped hammer left an indenture in the floor

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as in chips

a V-shaped cut usually on an edge or a surface made a small indenture to mark the spot where the plank was to be sawed

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Noun

The event features 36 holes of stroke play Saturday and Sunday, and then takes the top 64 and puts them in a single elimination match-play bracket that begins on Monday and ends with a 36-hole championship match on Thursday.

— Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2026
The plant’s interior pot has drainage holes, hidden in the cachepot, so your plant won’t drown and your hardwoods won’t get wrecked.

— Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of holes

Noun

Hundreds of billions of dollars have been poured into the buildout, and not just into AI labs and models, but data centers, semiconductor chips, and so on.

— Yerbol Orynbayev, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2026
After initially struggling to build a market for the technology, the company continued developing HBM and eventually became the leading supplier of the memory chips used by NVIDIA (NVDA) in its AI accelerators.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of chips

Noun

Another fun detail can be found on the vamp, which has the same series of dots signature to the sneaker but rendered merely as indents rather than full perforations — less the Gore-Tex membrane be compromised.

— Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 2 Sep. 2026
There’s nothing more annoying than unsightly indents in your carpet that are suddenly exposed.

— Ashley Chalmers, The Spruce, 23 Apr. 2026

Definition of indents

Noun

Their furrows reminded me of Rembrandt’s paintings of old men, brows carved deep by hard use and long years.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
The underwater drone, tethered to the ship with cables and about the size of a small car, was just above the ocean floor as the researchers and pilots searched for furrows potentially left by whales.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of furrows

Noun

Plus, the side slits are practically made for showing off a pair of tall boots this fall.

— Brittany VanDerBill, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2026
There’s also front flap pockets that add practical storage, and button side slits for extra flexibility and movement.

— Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of slits

Noun

In a historic first, two olive ridley sea turtles crawled out of the sea within the second week of September and laid their eggs in pits of sand in Seal Beach and Huntington Beach.

— Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
The adult female lays its eggs beneath the skin of apples, leaving pits and dimples on the fruit.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of pits

Noun

Some have indentations meant to gather rainwater, and some have multiple points of entry and egress, all of which the rats apparently appreciate.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 20 Aug. 2026
Like the experimental teeth, the ones from Neanderthal archaeological sites had the same overlapping small fractures, shallow indentations, and shallow scratches.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 June 2026

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