indicate
pronunciation
How to pronounce indicate in British English:
UK [ˈɪndɪkeɪt]
How to pronounce indicate in American English:
US [ˈɪndɪkeɪt]
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- Verb:
- be a signal for or a symptom of
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- to state or express briefly
- give evidence of
- suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine
Word Origin
- indicate
- indicate: [17] Like index, indicate has its origins in the Latin stem *dik- ‘point out’. In this case the base form was the verbal derivative dicāre ‘proclaim’ (ultimate ancestor also of English abdicate [16], dedicate [15] and predicate [16]), which with the addition of the prefix inproduced indicāre ‘show’ – which English adopted as indicate.First cousin of Latin dicāre was dīcere ‘say’ (source of English diction, dictionary, etc). Addition of the prefix in- to this produced indīcere ‘proclaim’, which formed the basis of Vulgar Latin *indictāre ‘declare, dictate’. This has given English two separate verbs: via Old French enditier the now archaic indite [14]; and via Anglo-Norman enditer, with subsequent latinization of the spelling, indict [14].=> abdicate, dedicate, predicate
- indicate (v.)
- 1650s, back-formation from indication, or else from Latin indicatus, past participle of indicare "to point out, show, indicate, declare" (see indication). Related: Indicated; indicating.
Example
- 1. Handwritten notes indicate the testing progress of various components .
- 2. When mixed with white it may indicate an extreme personality .
- 3. That could indicate the company overreached in its pricing .
- 4. Past studies have indicated that optimistic answers indicate happy moods .
- 5. Past banking crises indicate an even gloomier prognosis .