Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To show the way to or the direction of; point out.
- transitive verb To serve as a sign, symptom, or token of; signify.
- transitive verb To suggest or demonstrate the necessity, expedience, or advisability of.
- transitive verb To state or express briefly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
- transitive verb (Med.) To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies. Opposite of
contraindicate . - transitive verb (Mach.) To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
point out ; todiscover ; to direct to a knowledge of; toshow ; to make known. - verb To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies
- verb To
signal in a vehicle the desire to turn right or left - verb this sense?) To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be a signal for or a symptom of
- verb give evidence of
- verb to state or express briefly
- verb suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine
- verb indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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While in these examples nomos is treated as a valid and generally accepted norm, other uses of the term indicate that custom had come under attack: nomos is used of practices which, though current, are in some way reprehensible or at least not worthy of respect.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARTIN OSTWALD 1968
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The doubts about the name indicate the doubts about the project…
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Charles Moore 2012
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It seems that CTV is playing on Israel's side, as the word 'clash' in the title indicate (as though people on the ship had attacked the commandos).
CTV News RSS Feed 2010
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Three asterisks prefixed to a title indicate the more or less permanent literary value of a story, and entitle it to a place on the annual "Rolls of Honor."
The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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Three asterisks prefixed to a title indicate the more or less permanent literary value of the story, and entitle it to a place on the annual "Rolls of Honor."
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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Three asterisks prefixed to a title indicate the more or less permanent literary value of the story, and entitle it to a place on the annual "Rolls of Honor."
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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Three asterisks prefixed to a title indicate the more or less permanent literary value of the story, and entitle it to a place on the annual "Rolls of Honor."
The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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Three asterisks prefixed to a title indicate the more or less permanent literary value of the story.
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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Three asterisks prefixed to a title indicate the more or less permanent literary value of a story, and entitle it to a place on the annual "Roll of Honor."
The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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Looking back, ambiguity just seems built in to the word: how could one term indicate both a tight-lipped black jazz musician in a pork-pie hat and an effusive, unkempt college drop-out in a ruffle shirt?
POP Montreal patricia 2010
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