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(grammar) The indicative mood.
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(grammar) A term in the indicative mood.
adjective
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Serving as a sign, indication or suggestion of something
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He had pains indicative of a heart attack.
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(grammar) of, or relating to the indicative mood
Examples of indicative in a Sentence
All these remains are indicative of a bridge.
Katie looked around, unable to tell if her sister's empty closet was indicative of a weekend trip or something more permanent.
The plane was scheduled to leave in 45 minutes but one look at the departure board was indicative of things to come.
There are several symptoms indicative of a heat rash.
Don't assume that the color of the lenses is necessarily indicative of sun protection.
This platform allows the user to create new backgrounds, upload pictures, and design a MySpace page that is more indicative of the user than the generic templates normally offered.
An interesting example of the long plain variety is afforded by the prisoners of Lachish before Sennacherib (701 B.C.); the circumstances and a comparison of the details would point to its being essentially a simple dress indicative of mourning and humiliation.
Accra preserves the distinctions of James Town, Ussher Town and Christiansborg, indicative of its tripartite origin.
The only extant prose work which may be assigned to the end of this period is the treatise on rhetoric known by the title Ad Herennium (c. 84) a work indicative of the attention bestowed on prose style and rhetorical studies during the last century of the republic, and which may be regarded as a precursor of the oratorical treatises of Cicero and of the work of Quintilian.
From other fairly attested sources we infer that Paul regarded the baptism as a landmark indicative of a great stage in the moral advance of Jesus.
Prior to any freckle removal surgery or treatment procedure, a dermatologist will evaluate your freckles to ensure no form of suspicious moles that could be indicative of skin cancer are present.
The terms western, central and eastern Sudan are indicative of geographical position merely.
Elevated bilirubin, alanine transaminase and lactate dehydrogenase concentrations are indicative of hepatocellular injury.
A glucose concentration equal to or greater than 200 mg/dL is indicative of diabetes.
The swellings on the palmar faces of the phalanges of the several fingers are also indicative, the 1st and and of the thumb respectively, of the logical faculty and of the will; the 1st, and and 3rd of the index finger, of materialism, law and order, idealism; those of the middle finger, humanity, system, intelligence; of the ring finger, truth, economy, energy; and of the little finger, goodness, prudence, reflectiveness.
He does not enter into the animal comparisons of his predecessors, but occupies himself chiefly with simple descriptive physiognomy as indicative of character; and the same is true of the scattered references in the writings of Duns Scotus and Thomas Aquinas.
Pseudo-Participle.In very early texts this is the past indicative, but more commonly it is used in sentences such as, gm-n-f wi 11 kwl, he found me I stood, i.e.
As Otto Pfleiderer (Development of Theology, p. 285) observes, "the choice not less than the treatment of these subjects is indicative of the large breadth of view and the insight of the historian into the comparative history of religion."
In fact, however, the Homeric subjunctive is almost quite " regular," though the rule which it obeys is a different one from the Attic. It may be summed up by saying that the subjunctive takes or when the indicative has o or and not otherwise.
White spots are sometimes present below the eyes, and there may be white markings on the legs and back; and the absence or presence of these white markings may be indicative of distinct races.
When the thyroid tablets or extract of thyroid are given in too large quantities to patients suffering from myxoedema, the symptoms of myxoedema disappear, but in their place appear others indicative of increased metabolism and accelerated circulation.
Indicative of the fact that the agricultural community was little affected by the trade depression are the export figures for 1904 and 1906, which were £2,044,000 and £2,627,000 respectively.
It is important to draw attention to some structural features exhibited by certain cone-scales, in which there is no external sign indicative of the presence of a carpellary and a seminiferous scale.
Among defeated amendments that are indicative of socio-political tendencies was one (1896) to authorize cities of a population of 30,000 or more to purchase, erect or maintain waterworks or lighting plants.
The latter is considered below; " The Black .,, it is i nd i cat i ve of the chemical elements from which the lines can proceed, and its state at the time of emission; the former is indicative only of the rate of loss of energy from the sun by radiation, and is inwoven with a remarkable group of physical theory and experiment, known as the theory of the black body, or as black radiation.
In the present indicative and subjunctive many verbs in it takethe inchoative form already described, by lengthening the radical in the three persons of the singular and in the third person of the plural by means of the syllable esc (isc).
By this curious process of combination the entire realm of the natural sciences was translated into the language of astrology with the single avowed purpose of seeing in all phenomena signs indicative of what the future had in store.
The regions have also provided advice on their priorities within long-term indicative funding allocations.
A different marker on 3p14.2 showed an identical shifted band in the three tumors indicative of a common microsatellite alteration.
Also note the green gloss to the wing and brown lesser coverts indicative of a first winter bird.
And, perhaps indicative of the Glazer regime, why was there so little movement at Old Trafford?
That they might do so in certain cases is not necessarily indicative of any racism on their part or that of their readers.
In other words, comparison of these rates may not be purely indicative of differences in receipt of care when sick.
The official cost to individuals of £ 93 per head is, we are told, " merely indicative " .
Microsoft's contradictory position on Linux as a viable competitor seems indicative of the difference between the marketplace and the court.
The audit of schemes should be considered indicative rather than comprehensive or exhaustive.
These are indicative of the general Pandemonium which seems to be dominating the SU at the present time.
In these events, a single high-energy quark is ejected from the target proton, indicative of deep-inelastic scattering.
The table below gives further detail of the indicative timeline for this work.
No specific standard radioactivity total indicative dose tritium Anglian Water supplies have been assessed as very low risk.
That part of Virginia beyond the Alleghany mountains was a favourite haunt of the Indians before the first coming of the whites, and there are many Indian mounds, indicative of an early and high cultural development, within the present limits of the state, and especially in the neighbourhood of Moundsville (q.v.).
There is still, however, a distinct current from the Shari delta to the east end of the lake - known to the natives, like the depression beyond, as the Bahr-el-Ghazal - indicative of the former overflow outlet.
On the other hand, the marked resemblance of the structure of the tarsus is probably indicative of descent from nearly allied condylarthrous ancestors (see Phenacodus).
A single fern specimen obtained by Littledale (Polypodium hastatum) is indicative of eastern China.
Presumably this is due to the growing importance of the Strategus and to the institution of sortition (see below), which, whether as cause or effect, is presumably by the 5th century indicative of diminished importance.
Struve's skill as an observer was such that he used to complete the bisection on the fixed wire of the micrometer by a pressure of the finger on the side of the tube - a method of proved efficiency in such hands, but plainly indicative of the want of rigidity in the instrument and of the imperfection of the slow motions (see Micrometer).
In the latter patient group, even a small increase in serum creatinine may be indicative of unilateral loss of renal function.
Typically, this is not indicative of a problem.
This lack of indicative symptoms may trigger a lot of parental anxiety, particularly in parents who have already lost a child to SIDS.
As mentioned previously, there are no indicative factors other than an infant's age.