different between indicate vs index

English

Etymology

From Latin indicatus, past participle of indic?re (“to point out, indicate”), from in (“in, to”) + dic?re (“to declare, originally to point”); see diction. Compare index.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nd?ke?t/

Verb

indicate (third-person singular simple present indicates, present participle indicating, simple past and past participle indicated)

1. To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
2. To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies.

3. To signal in a vehicle the desire to turn right or left.
4. 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

• betoken

Related terms

• index
• indication
• indicative
• indicator

Translations

Further reading

• indicate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• indicate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Dianetic, actinide, ctenidia, diactine, dianetic

Italian

Adjective

indicate f pl

1. feminine plural of indicato

Verb

indicate

1. second-person plural present of indicare
2. second-person plural imperative of indicare
3. feminine plural past participle of indicare

Anagrams

• identica

Latin

Participle

indic?te

1. vocative masculine singular of indic?tus

Verb

indic?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of indic?

For Wiktionary's indexes, see Wiktionary:Index

English

Etymology

From Latin index (“a discoverer, informer, spy; of things, an indicator, the forefinger, a title, superscription”), from indic? (“point out, show”); see indicate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nd?ks/

Noun

index (plural indexes or indices or (obsolete, in use in the 17th century) index's)

1. An alphabetical listing of items and their location.

2. The index finger; the forefinger.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:index finger

3. A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
4. (typography) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.

   Synonym: manicule

5. That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
   • 1730, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments

     Tastes are the Indexes of the different Qualities of Plants.

6. A sign; an indication; a token.
   • 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Misadventures of John Nicholson

     His son's empty guffaws […] struck him with pain as the indices of a weak mind.

7. (linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context. E.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
8. (economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
9. (sciences) A number representing a property or ratio, a coefficient.
10. (mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
11. (computing, especially programming and databases) An integer or other key indicating the location of data e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
12. (computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
13. (obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.
    • c. 1599-1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, III, 4

      Ay me, what act, that roars so loud and thunders in the index?

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• (alphabetical listing): table of contents

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “index”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Verb

index (third-person singular simple present indexes, present participle indexing, simple past and past participle indexed)

1. (transitive) To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
2. To inventory, to take stock.
3. (chiefly economics) To normalise in order to account for inflation; to correct for inflation by linking to a price index in order to maintain real levels.
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5. (linguistics, transitive) To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.
6. (computing) To access a value in a data container by an index.

Derived terms

• indexer

Translations

Further reading

• index in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• index in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• nixed, xenid

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??nd?ks]

Noun

index m

1. index (alphabetical listing of items and their location)
2. (economics) index

   index spot?ebitelských cen — consumer price index

3. (computing, databases) index (a data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table)

Synonyms

• (alphabetical listing): rejst?ík

Related terms

• See dikce
• indexace
• indexový
• indexovat
• indexování
• indicie
• indikace
• indikátor
• indikovat

Further reading

• index in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• index in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch index, from Latin index.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n.d?ks/
• Hyphenation: in?dex

Noun

index m (plural indexen or indices, diminutive indexje n)

1. index (list)
2. index (number or coefficient representing various relations)
3. (medicine, anatomy) index finger

   Synonym: wijsvinger

Derived terms

• brekingsindex
• prijsindex

Related terms

• indexatie
• indexeren
• indicator
• indiceren

French

Etymology

From Latin index (“pointer, indicator”), from indic? (“point out, show”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.d?ks/

Noun

index m (plural index)

1. index
2. forefinger
3. The welcome page of a web site, typically index.html, index.htm or index.php

Derived terms

• mettre à l'index

Further reading

• “index” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin index.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ind?ks]
• Hyphenation: in?dex
• Rhymes: -?ks

Noun

index (plural indexek)

1. (automotive) turn signal (US), indicator (UK) (each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which indicate a turn is being made to left or right, or a lane change)

   Synonym: irányjelz?

2. pointer, hand, indicator (a needle or dial on a device)

   Synonyms: mutató, kar

3. (higher education) transcript, report card, course report (in higher education)

   Synonym: leckekönyv

   Coordinate term: (in lower education) ellen?rz?

4. index (an alphabetical listing of items and their location, usually at the end of publications)

   Synonyms: névmutató, tárgymutató, szómutató

5. ban, blacklist (a list of books that was banned)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• index in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Latin

Etymology

From indic? (“point out, indicate, show”), from in (“in, at, on; into”) + dic? (“indicate; dedicate; set apart”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?in.deks/, [??n?d??ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?in.deks/, [?in?d??ks]

Noun

index m or f (genitive indicis); third declension

1. A pointer, indicator.
2. The index finger, forefinger.

   Synonym: digitus sal?t?ris

3. (of books) An index, list, catalogue, table, summary, digest.
4. (of books) A title, superscription.
5. A sign, indication, proof, mark, token, index.
6. An informer, discoverer, director, talebearer, guide, witness, betrayer, spy.
7. (of paintings or statues) An inscription.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

• index in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• index in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• index in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• index in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• index in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• index in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• index in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin index

Noun

index n (plural indexuri)

1. index

Declension

Swedish

Noun

index n

1. an index

Declension