indicate

CEFRB1

/ˈɪndɪˌkeɪt/

verb

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

01
verb
To show, point out, or suggest something.
02
verb
Extra detail
To point to as the proper remedies.

Examples

Initial tests indicate the presence of oxygen.
Please indicate what action you will take.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 4

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

To show or manifest by symptoms.
To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
To signal in a vehicle the desire to turn right or left.

More examples

In context

Please, can you indicate this to me on the map?
Great prostration of strength indicates the use of stimulants.
The guard blew his whistle to indicate imminent departure.

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Question 1 · Quick check

The rising smoke will blank that a fire has started somewhere in the forest.

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Citations

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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.
1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
It was strange to buy things I used to consider luxuries but were now medically indicated, like air conditioning and well-made shoes.
1990 February 4, Margy Dowzer, Mary Frances Platt, Aviva Shmuckler, “Disability And Accessibility Cost Money!”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 13
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,[…].
1903, “How to indicate an engine”, in The Star Improved Steam Engine Indicator, page 64
I found it fully as easy to indicate an engine at a speed of 320 to 340 revolutions as at 80.
1905, Power, volume 25, page 448
An indicator will give the working of these valves at all times and soon return its cost in higher engine efficiency. The day has passed when it was only the expert who could indicate an engine or afford to own an indicator.
1905, Central Station, volume 5, page 76

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Origin

verb

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.

Deep Dive

verb

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Quick test

The rising smoke will blank— that a fire has started somewhere in the forest.

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Origin

verb

The rising smoke will blank that a fire has started somewhere in the forest.