different between presage vs indication

English

Etymology

From Middle French presage, from Latin praes?gium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??s?d?/, /p???se?d?/
• Rhymes: -e?d?
• Hyphenation: pre?sage

Noun

presage (plural presages)

1. A warning of a future event; an omen.
2. An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXII:

     Glad was I when I reached the other bank. / Now for a better country. Vain presage!

Translations

Verb

presage (third-person singular simple present presages, present participle presaging, simple past and past participle presaged)

1. (transitive) To predict or foretell something.
   • (Q2 version):

     If I may tru?t the flattering truth of ?leepe, / My dreames pre?age ?ome ioyfull newes at hand?: / My bo?omes L. ?its lightly in his throne?: / And all this day an vnaccu?tom’d ?pirit, / Lifts me aboue the ground with cheatfull thoughts […]
2. (intransitive) To make a prediction.
3. (transitive) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.

Synonyms

• foreshadow
• forespell
• portend

Translations

Anagrams

• asperge, preages, sperage

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).