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Provides vs Indicates - What's the difference?

provides | indicates |

As verbs the difference between provides and indicates

is that provides is third-person singular of provide while indicates is third-person singular of indicate.

provides

English

Verb

(head)
  • (provide)
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    provide

    English

    Verb

    (provid)
  • To make a living; earn money for necessities.
  • It is difficult to provide for my family working on minimum wage.
  • To act to prepare for something.
  • To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
  • The contract provides that the work be well done.
    I'll lend you the money, provided that you pay it back by Monday.
  • To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
  • Don't bother bringing equipment, as we will provide it.
    We aim to provide the local community with more green spaces.
  • To furnish (with), cause to be present.
  • * Arbuthnot
  • Rome was well provided with corn.
  • To make possible or attainable.
  • He provides us with an alternative option.
  • * Milton
  • Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit / As the kind, hospitable woods provide .
  • (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
  • (Ben Jonson)
  • To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor .
  • (Prescott)

    Derived terms

    * provider

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    indicates

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (indicate)
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    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)
  • , 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.
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