indicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪndɪˌkeɪt/
Forms: form: indicates
form: indicating
form: indicated
form: indicated
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form: glossary
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form: indicatest
form: indicated
form: indicatedst
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form: -
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Etymology: Borrowed from Latin indicātus, perfect passive participle of indicō (“to point out, indicate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“in, to”) + dicō (“to declare, (originally) to point”). See also diction and index.
Senses: examples: text: The guard blew his whistle to indicate imminent departure.
text: With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.[…]The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249:
text: Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.
ref: 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
synonyms: betoken
index
speak of
bespeak
glosses: To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
examples: text: Great prostration of strength indicates the use of stimulants.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To show or manifest by symptoms.
examples: text: It was strange to buy things I used to consider luxuries but were now medically indicated, like air conditioning and well-made shoes.
ref: 1990 February 4, Margy Dowzer, Mary Frances Platt, Aviva Shmuckler, “Disability And Accessibility Cost Money!”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 13:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To point to as the proper remedies.
glosses: To signal in a vehicle the desire to turn right or left.
examples: text: To a person who is familiar with the use of an indicator, whether it be of one make or another, it is needless to give instructions as to how an engine should be indicated,[…].
ref: 1903, “How to indicate an engine”, in The Star Improved Steam Engine Indicator, page 64:
text: I found it fully as easy to indicate an engine at a speed of 320 to 340 revolutions as at 80.
ref: 1905, Power, volume 25, page 448:
text: An indicator will give the working of these valves at all times and soon return its cost in higher engine efficiency. The day has passed when it was only the expert who could indicate an engine or afford to own an indicator.
ref: 1905, Central Station, volume 5, page 76:
glosses: To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator.
Derived terms: contraindicate
counterindicate
indicable
indicatable
indicatory
nonindicated
preindicate
subindicate
unindicated
Related terms: index
indication
indicative
indicator
indicatrix