Indicate vs Signalize - What's the difference?
indicate | signalize |
To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
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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 make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common.
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To communicate with by means of a signal.
(humorous, or, nonstandard) To make something noticeable, different, remarkable or conspicuous, especially by gesticulation.
(nonstandard) To signal; to indicate the existence, presence, or fact of, by a signal.
* Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
(nonstandard) To install a traffic signal at an intersection that is currently regulated by stop signs.
As verbs the difference between indicate and signalize
is that indicate is to point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known while signalize is to make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common.indicate
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- It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves.
- a ship signalizes its consort
- to signalize the arrival of a steamer
- And yet... looking here at this bottle which by its number signalized the day when Colonel Freeleigh had stumbled and fallen six feet into the earth, Douglas could not find so much as a gram of dark sediment