indicate

English Online Dictionary. What means indicate‎? What does indicate mean?

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪndɪˌkeɪt/

Verb

indicate (third-person singular simple present indicates, present participle indicating, simple past and past participle indicated)

1. (transitive) To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
2. (transitive, medicine) To show or manifest by symptoms.

3. (transitive, medicine) To point to as the proper remedies.
4. (transitive) To signal in a vehicle the desire to turn right or left.
5. (transitive) To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator.

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Further reading

• “indicate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “indicate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Dianetic, anticide, ctenidia, diactine, actinide, dianetic

Italian

Adjective

indicate f pl

1. feminine plural of indicato

Verb

indicate

1. inflection of indicare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative
   3. feminine plural past participle

Anagrams

• identica

Latin

Participle

indicāte

1. vocative masculine singular of indicātus

Verb

indicāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of indicō

Spanish

Verb

indicate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of indicar combined with te