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Word: Index
Speech Type: Verb
late Middle English: from Latin index, indic- ‘forefinger, informer, sign’, from in- ‘towards’ + a second element related to dicere ‘say’ or dicare ‘make known’; compare with indicate. The original sense ‘index finger’ (with which one points), came to mean ‘pointer’ (late 16th century), and figuratively something that serves to point to a fact or conclusion; hence a list of topics in a book (‘pointing’ to their location)
ˈɪndɛks
record (names, subjects, etc.) in an index
Short Definition:record in index
Examples:- the list indexes theses under regional headings
link the value of (prices, wages, or other payments) automatically to the value of a price index
Short Definition:link value of prices etc. to price index
Examples:- the Supreme Soviet passed legislation indexing wages to prices
(of a machine or part of one) move from one predetermined position to another in order to carry out a sequence of operations
Short Definition:(of machine) move to predetermined positions
Examples:- the pins are retracted and indexed to occupy an adjacent slotted position
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