different between indication vs herald

English

Etymology

From Old French indication, from Latin indic?ti? (“a showing, indicating the value of something; valuation”), from indic? (“point out, indicate, show; value”); see indicate; confer French indication, Spanish indicación, Italian indicazione.Morphologically indicate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nd??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

indication (countable and uncountable, plural indications)

1. Act of pointing out or indicating.
2. That which serves to indicate or point out; mark; token; sign; symptom; evidence.
   • September 9, 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian volume 156

     The frequent stops they make in the most convenient places are plain indications of their weariness.

3. Discovery made; information.
4. (obsolete) Explanation; display. (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
5. (medicine) Any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which serves to direct to suitable remedies.
6. (finance) An declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading.

Related terms

• index
• indicate
• indicator
• indicative

Translations

Further reading

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

French

Etymology

From Latin indic?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.di.ka.sj??/

Noun

indication f (plural indications)

1. direction, instruction
2. indication, sign
3. indication, information
4. a hint

Related terms

• indiquer

Further reading

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h???ld/

Etymology 1

From Middle English herald, herauld, heraud, from Anglo-Norman heraud, from Old French heraut, hiraut (modern French héraut), from Frankish *heriwald, from Proto-Germanic *harjawaldaz, a compound consisting of Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“army”) + *h?welh?- (“to be strong”). Compare Walter, which has these elements reversed.

Noun

herald (plural heralds)

1. A messenger, especially one bringing important news.

   The herald blew his trumpet and shouted that the King was dead.

2. A harbinger, giving signs of things to come.

   Daffodils are heralds of Spring.

3. (heraldry) An official whose speciality is heraldry, especially one between the ranks of pursuivant and king-of-arms.

   Rouge Dragon is a herald at the College of Arms.

4. (entomology) A moth of the species Scoliopteryx libatrix.

Synonyms

• (messenger): messenger
• (harbinger): harbinger
• (official whose speciality is heraldry): pursuivant

Related terms

• heraldic
• heraldry

Translations

Verb

herald (third-person singular simple present heralds, present participle heralding, simple past and past participle heralded)

1. (transitive) To proclaim or announce an event.
2. (transitive, usually passive) To greet something with excitement; to hail.

Synonyms

• (announce): disclose, make known; See also Thesaurus:announce

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

herald (plural heralds)

1. Alternative form of hareld (“long-tailed duck”)

Anagrams

• -hedral, Erdahl, Hadler, hardel, hareld, harled