indicate

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To show the way to or the direction of; point out: an arrow indicating north; indicated the right road by nodding toward it.
2. v. To serve as a sign, symptom, or token of; signify: "The cracking and booming of the ice indicate a change of temperature” ( Henry David Thoreau).
3. v. To suggest or demonstrate the necessity, expedience, or advisability of: The symptoms indicate immediate surgery.
4. v. To state or express briefly: indicated his wishes in a letter; indicating her approval with a nod.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To point out; show; suggest, as by an outline or a word, etc.: as, the length of a shadow indicates the time of day; to indicate a picture by a sketch.
2. Especially, to give a suggestion of; serve as a reason or ground for inferring, expecting, using, etc.; also, merely suggest; hint: as, a falling barometer indicates rain or high wind; certain symptoms indicate certain remedies in the treatment of disease.

Wiktionary

1. v. To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
2. v. To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies
3. v. To signal in a vehicle the desire to turn right or left
4. v. this sense?) To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
2. v. (Med.) To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies. Opposite of contraindicate.
3. v. (Mach.) To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. be a signal for or a symptom of
2. v. give evidence of
3. v. to state or express briefly
4. v. suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine
5. v. indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively