indicate

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known. sometimes,transitive
    — The guard blew his whistle to indicate imminent departure.
  2. To show or manifest by symptoms. transitive
    — Great prostration of strength indicates the use of stimulants.
  3. To point to as the proper remedies. transitive
    — It was strange to buy things I used to consider luxuries but were now medically indicated, like air conditioning and well-made shoes.
  4. To signal in a vehicle the desire to turn right or left. transitive
  5. To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator. transitive
    — 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,[…].

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
contraindicate counterindicate indicable indicatable indicatory nonindicated preindicate subindicate unindicated
相关词
index indication indicative indicator indicatrix

词源

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.
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