All 9 Uses of
indicate
in
Travels with Charley
- The sky was the color of wet gray aluminum and there was no indication on the translucent shield where the sun might be, so I couldn't tell direction.†
Part 2indication = something that serves as a sign to show something else
- At night some slept in the trucks and trailers, but there were tents pitched in pleasant places, and the smells' that came from their cooking fires indicated that they had not lost their French genius for making soup.†
Part 2indicated = showed
- If the elevated tone indicates to you that it was carried on in French, you are wrong.†
Part 2indicates = shows
- Another kind of traveler requires to know in terms of maps exactly where he is pin-pointed every moment, as though there were some kind of safety in black and red lines, in dotted indications and squirming blue of lakes and the shadings that indicate mountains.†
Part 2indications = things that serve as signs to show other things
- Another kind of traveler requires to know in terms of maps exactly where he is pin-pointed every moment, as though there were some kind of safety in black and red lines, in dotted indications and squirming blue of lakes and the shadings that indicate mountains.†
Part 2indicate = show
- This seems to indicate that he is not entirely sure of himself in the business world, but there were other signs of that.†
Part 2
- I remembered how on the ranch in my youth the turkeys gathered and roosted in clots in the cypress trees, out of reach of wildcats and coyotes, the only indication I know of that turkeys have any intelligence at all.†
Part 3indication = something that serves as a sign to show something else
- I strove to look stern, thoughtful, and noncommittal all at once. I pulled at my beard, which is said to indicate concentration.
Part 3 *indicate = express or demonstrate
- It was indicated that they were indelicate, some even said obscene.†
Part 4indicated = showed
Definition:
to show (point out, demonstrate, express, or suggest)
The form, indicator can refer to many different kinds of things including intentional signals (such as a turn indicator), gauges (such as one that indicates pressure), or a measurement (such as an economic or chemical indicator).