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Indicate

//ˈɪndɪˌkeɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known. sometimes, transitive

    "The guard blew his whistle to indicate imminent departure."

  2. 2
    give evidence of wordnet
  3. 3
    To show or manifest by symptoms. transitive

    "Great prostration of strength indicates the use of stimulants."

  4. 4
    be a signal for or a symptom of wordnet
  5. 5
    To point to as the proper remedies. transitive

    "It was strange to buy things I used to consider luxuries but were now medically indicated, like air conditioning and well-made shoes."

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  1. 6
    indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively wordnet
  2. 7
    To signal in a vehicle the desire to turn right or left. transitive
  3. 8
    to state or express briefly wordnet
  4. 9
    To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator. transitive

    "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,[…]."

  5. 10
    suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine wordnet

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.

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