indicate

Verb

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

1. (sometimes, transitive) To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
   • The guard blew his whistle to indicate imminent departure.
   • 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

   Synonyms:

   betoken, index, speak of, bespeak

2. (transitive) To show or manifest by symptoms.
   • Near-synonym: suggest
   • Marked weakness unresponsive to dietary change and exercise may indicate an underlying neurologic or metabolic problem.

   Synonyms:

   suggest

3. (transitive) To point to as the proper remedies.
   • Near-synonym: warrant
   • This type of arrhythmia indicates the use of a beta-blocker.

   Synonyms:

   warrant

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.
   • 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