Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iː	see	ɪ	sit	e / ɛ	bed	æ	cat
ɑː	father	ɒ	hot (UK)	ɔː	law	ʊ	put
uː	too	ʌ	cup	ɜː	bird	ə	about
eɪ	day	aɪ	my	ɔɪ	boy	aʊ	now
əʊ / oʊ	go (UK / US)	ɪə	near	eə	hair	ʊə	tour

Consonants that look unusual

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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indicate

/ˈɪndɪˌkeɪt/ verb

Forms indicates indicating indicated indicatest indicatedst indicateth

verb (transitive, sometimes with 'of') To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known. “The guard blew his whistle to indicate imminent departure.”
verb (transitive, medicine) To show or manifest by symptoms. “Marked weakness unresponsive to dietary change and exercise may indicate an underlying neurologic or metabolic problem.”
verb (transitive, medicine) To point to as the proper remedies. “This type of arrhythmia indicates the use of a beta-blocker.”
verb (transitive) To signal in a vehicle the desire to turn right or left.
verb (transitive) To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator.

Synonyms

betoken index speak of bespeak suggest warrant point signal designate show argue

Antonyms

contraindicate

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin indicātus, perfect passive participle of indicō (“to point out, indicate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“in, to”) + dicō (“to declare, (originally) to point”). See also diction and index.

Webster’s 1913

verb To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
verb To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies; as, great prostration of strength indicates the use of stimulants.

Etymology [L. indicatus, p. p. of indicare to indicate; pref. in- in + dicare to proclaim; akin to dicere to say. See Diction, and cf. Indict, Indite.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “indicate”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “indicate” (best matches first).

अभिनिर्दिश् abhi-nir-diś -diśati, -deṣṭum, to point out, indicate, appoint, characterize.
समुपदिश् sam-upa-diś -diśati, -deṣṭum, to point out or indicate fully, show; to assign.
पिशुनय piśunaya piśunayati, -yitum, to betray, make known, indicate, make manifest.
संसूच् saṃ-sūc -sūcayati, -yitum, to indicate or show plainly, prove, imply, argue; to inform, tell.
प्रतिवच् prati-vac -vakti, -vaktum, to say anything in reply to (with two acc.); to point out, indicate, denounce (Vedic).
अपदिश् apa-diś -diśati, -deṣṭum, to assign, to point out, indicate, betray, to pretend, hold out as a pretext or disguise.
उपादिश् upā-diś -diśati, -te, -deṣṭum, to advise, show, point out, to indicate, inform, declare; to prescribe, give an order.
चिल्ल् cill cillati, etc., to become loose; to be slack or flaccid; to play, sport, act wantonly; to indicate one's mean…

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