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INDICATE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give evidence of

Example:

The results indicate the need for more work

Synonyms:

argue; indicate

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "indicate" is one way to...):

lay out; present; represent (bring forward and present to the mind)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

indicant (something that serves to indicate or suggest)

indication (a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument)

indication (something (as a course of action) that is indicated as expedient or necessary)

indication (something that serves to indicate or suggest)

indicative ((usually followed by 'of') pointing out or revealing clearly)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be a signal for or a symptom of

Example:

The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued

Synonyms:

bespeak; betoken; indicate; point; signal

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "indicate" is one way to...):

tell (let something be known)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "indicate"):

augur; auspicate; betoken; bode; forecast; foreshadow; foretell; omen; portend; predict; prefigure; presage; prognosticate (indicate, as with a sign or an omen)

mark (designate as if by a mark)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

indicant; indication (something that serves to indicate or suggest)

indication ((medicine) a reason to prescribe a drug or perform a procedure)

indicative ((usually followed by 'of') pointing out or revealing clearly)

indicator (a signal for attracting attention)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively

Example:

he indicated his opponents

Synonyms:

designate; indicate; point; show

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "indicate" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "indicate"):

point (indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle)

finger (indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments)

call attention; point out; signalise; signalize (point out carefully and clearly)

reflect (manifest or bring back)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

indication (the act of indicating or pointing out by name)

Sense 4

Meaning:

To state or express briefly

Example:

indicated his wishes in a letter

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "indicate" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "indicate"):

read; record; register; show (indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments)

signify (make known with a word or signal)

call (indicate a decision in regard to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Antonym:

contraindicate (make a treatment inadvisable)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine

Example:

Tetracycline is indicated in such cases

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "indicate" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Antonym:

contraindicate (make a treatment inadvisable)

Derivation:

indication (something (as a course of action) that is indicated as expedient or necessary)

indication ((medicine) a reason to prescribe a drug or perform a procedure)

indicative ((usually followed by 'of') pointing out or revealing clearly)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A response indicating that an individual has been about as socially active as before.

(About As Socially Active As Before, NCI Thesaurus)

Microvascular density can be used to describe the proliferation speed of a tissue, with higher density indicating faster tissue growth.

(Microvascular Density, NCI Thesaurus)

Indicates the least number of characters permissible in a value.

(Minimum Length Number, NCI Thesaurus)

Women in the study had earlier responded to a questionnaire indicating whether they had taken a supplement containing folic acid in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy.

(New study suggests high lead levels during pregnancy linked to child obesity, National Institutes of Health)

A turned ‹a› (‹ɐ›) is used by the International Phonetic Alphabet for the near-open central vowel, while a turned capital ‹A› (‹∀›) is used in predicate logic to indicate universal quantification.

(A, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Includes laboratory test alterations indicating injury, but without long-term risk.

(Moderate Adverse Event, NCI Thesaurus)

These isotopes indicate the types of food consumed by the individual in the years leading up to their death.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)

A property indicating a class of food components required for proper health and that are typically consumed in microgram or milligram amounts.

(Micronutrient, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

A response indicating that something happens or happened a good bit of the time.

(A Good Bit of the Time, NCI Thesaurus)

A response indicating that an individual is or has experienced something and that they are a little concerned.

(A Little Concerned, NCI Thesaurus)