English
indicate
Etymology

From , past participle of indicāre, from in ("in, to") + dicāre; see diction.

Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈɪndɪˌkeɪt/
Verb

indicate (indicates, present participle indicating; simple past and past participle indicated)

  1. To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
    The guard blew his whistle to indicate imminent departure.
    • 1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC ↗:
      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.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC ↗, page 249 ↗:
      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.
  2. To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies.
    Great prostration of strength indicates the use of stimulants.
  3. To signal in a vehicle the desire to turn right or left.
  4. To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator.
    • 1903, “How to indicate an engine”, in The Star Improved Steam Engine Indicator, page 64:
      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, […].
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