Verb

(indicat)

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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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.

Verb

(elucidat)

To make clear; to clarify; to shed light upon.

* 1817 , , Northanger Abbey , ch. 13:

The business, however, though not perfectly elucidated by this speech, soon ceased to be a puzzle.

* 1960 , " Medicine: Unmasking the Brain," Time , 4 April:

[P]hysicians at the annual meeting of the American Academy of General Practice were fascinated by a 3-ft. model showing the brain's components in 20 layers of translucent plastic, and wired for colored lights to elucidate some of its workings.

* 2004 , David Bernstein, “ Philosophy Hitches a Ride With ‘The Sopranos’,” New York Times , 13 April (retrieved 19 Aug. 2009):

The new Sopranos volume has 17 essays that examine the television show and elucidate concepts from classical philosophers, including Aristotle, Machiavelli, Nietzsche, Sun Tzu and Plato.