Indicate vs Example - What's the difference?
indicate | example |
To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
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*: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.
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, title= To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies.
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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.
*1903', "How to '''indicate an engine" in ''The Star Improved Steam Engine Indicator , p.64:
*: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 ,.
*1905 , Power , Vol.25, p.448:
*:I found it fully as easy to indicate an engine at a speed of 320 to 340 revolutions as at 80.
*1905 , Central Station , Vol.5, p.76:
*:An indicator will give the working of these valves at all times and soon return its cost in higher engine efficiency. The day has passed when it was only the expert who could indicate an engine or afford to own an indicator.
Something that is representative of all such things in a group.
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, volume=189, issue=7, page=26, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.
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, title= Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).
* Bible, (w) xiii, 15
* (John Milton)
* 1818 , (Mary Shelley), :
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.
A person punished as a warning to others.
* (William Shakespeare)
* Bible, x, 6
A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.
* (William Shakespeare)
An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule.
To be illustrated or exemplified (by).
As verbs the difference between indicate and example
is that indicate is to point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known while example is to be illustrated or exemplified (by).As a noun example is
something that is representative of all such things in a group.indicate
English
Verb
(indicat)citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.
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Synonyms
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Noun
(en noun)How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.}}
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Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
- For I have given you an example , that ye should do as I have done to you.
- I gave, thou sayest, the example ; I led the way.
- Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge,
- Hang him; he'll be made an example .
- Now these things were our examples , to the intent that we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
- Such temperate order in so fierce a cause / Doth want example .