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Definition of Indicate

1. Verb. Be a signal for or a symptom of. "The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued"

2. Verb. Indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively. "He indicated his opponents"

3. Verb. To state or express briefly. "Indicated his wishes in a letter"

4. Verb. Give evidence of. "The results indicate the need for more work"

5. Verb. Suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine. "Tetracycline is indicated in such cases"

Definition of Indicate

1. v. t. To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.

Definition of Indicate

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

2. Verb. To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies ¹

3. Verb. To signal in a vehicle the desire to turn right or left ¹

4. Verb. To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Indicate

1. to point out [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]

Medical Definition of Indicate

1. 1. To show the probable presence of existence or nature or course of: give fair evidence of: be a fairly certain sign or symptom of. 2. To demonstrate or suggest the probable necessity or advisability. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indicate

indian lodge indian ocean indian ocean islands indian reservation indian shot indiarubber indicable indical indican indicanidrosis

indicans indicant indicants indicanuria indicanurias indicate (current term) indicated indicates indicating indication

indicational indications indicative indicative mood indicative moods indicatively indicativeness indicatives indicator

Literary usage of Indicate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (1912)
"6This is his final stroke. NB— Where the numbers of the notes are repeated, it is to indicate that the stage " business " is repeated. ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"While the percentages m the first column are about the same as those which obtained for a long period previous to 1891, those in the second column indicate ..."

3. Bulletin by Louisiana Geological Survey (1907)
"from oft-repeated visits to all the various outcrops is: that upon the whole their dips and positions indicate that the uplift here recorded is elliptical ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"Six thousand copies printed indicate the favorable reception of the book in this country and in England. Mr. Hall has compared the text with the fourth ..."

5. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1874)
"The arrows indicate the direction to move. A New and Exciting Game. This game is handsomely gotten up and mounted on a board of the same size and style as ..."

6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1901)
"... epic to romance may indicate that the latter was the ground on which he was most at home. The prose romances of his later years have so far proved less ..."

7. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1888)
"The heavy horizontal lines which cross such groups indicate the average of the enclosed experiments. Search for errors in the method employed. ..."

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