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Indicate vs Signalize - What's the difference?

indicate | signalize |

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

English

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

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    Anagrams

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    signalize

    English

    Verb

  • To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common.
  • * Burke
  • It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves.
  • To communicate with by means of a signal.
  • a ship signalizes its consort
  • (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.
  • to signalize the arrival of a steamer
  • * Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
  • 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
  • (nonstandard) To install a traffic signal at an intersection that is currently regulated by stop signs.
  • Derived terms

    * signalization