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.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=20 citation , passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw

, title= Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.}}

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

(occurr)

To happen or take place.

* {{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1

, passage=And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred , but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.}}

To present or offer (itself).

(label) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest (itself).

* 1995 , (Theodore Kaczynski), Industrial Society and Its Future ,

Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, [...]

(label) To be present or found.