Indicate vs Interpret - What's the difference?
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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.
To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied especially to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech.
* The Holy Bible, (w) i. 23.
* The Holy Bible, (w) xli. 8.
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, title= To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation; as, an actor interprets the character of Hamlet; a musician interprets a sonata; an artist interprets a landscape.
To act as an interpreter.
Interpret is a synonym of indicate.
As verbs the difference between indicate and interpret
is that indicate is to point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known while interpret is to explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied especially to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech.indicate
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(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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(en verb)- Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
- And Pharaoh told them his dreams; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
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