indicate

Meaning

Verb

• To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
• To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies.
• To signal in a vehicle the desire to turn right or left.
• To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator.

Related

Similar words

• betoken

Origin

• From Latin indicatus, past participle of indico, from in + dico; see diction. Compare index.