The difference between Indicate and Write

When used as verbs, indicate means to point out, whereas write means to form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.


Write is also noun with the meaning: the operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.

check bellow for the other definitions of Indicate and Write

  1. Indicate as a verb:

    To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.

    Examples:

    "The guard blew his whistle to indicate imminent departure."

  2. Indicate as a verb:

    To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies.

    Examples:

    "Great prostration of strength indicates the use of stimulants."

  3. Indicate as a verb:

    To signal in a vehicle the desire to turn right or left.

  4. Indicate as a verb:

    To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator.

  1. Write as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.

    Examples:

    "The pupil wrote his name on the paper."

    "Your son has been writing on the wall."

  2. Write as a verb (transitive):

    To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).

    Examples:

    "My uncle writes newspaper articles for The Herald."

  3. Write as a verb (transitive):

    To send written information to.

    Examples:

    "(UK) Please write to me when you get there."

    "(US) Please write me when you get there."

  4. Write as a verb (transitive):

    To show (information, etc) in written form.

    Examples:

    "The due day of the homework is written in the syllabus."

  5. Write as a verb (intransitive):

    To be an author.

    Examples:

    "I write for a living."

  6. Write as a verb (computing, intransitive, with {{m, to):

    }} To record data mechanically or electronically.

    Examples:

    "The computer writes to the disk faster than it [[reads]] from it."

  7. Write as a verb (transitive, South Africa, Canada, of an exam, a document, etc.):

    To fill in, to complete using words.

    Examples:

    "I was very anxious to know my score after I wrote the test."

  8. Write as a verb:

    To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.

    Examples:

    "truth written on the heart"

  9. Write as a verb:

    To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.

  1. Write as a noun (computing):

    The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.

    Examples:

    "How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?"