the thing indicated
Example Sentences
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If ikonomatic, the name of the thing indicated had l as its chief element.
She is specialized for it; it is the thing indicated.
From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Emma Goldman
This is, I say, a taking of the indication for the thing indicated.
From Moral Philosophy by Joseph Rickaby, S.J.
If the sound of the words actually imitates the sound of the thing indicated, the effect is called Onomatopoeia.
From A History of English Literature by Robert Huntington Fletcher
The Maya name of the thing indicated is uncertain, though I am inclined to believe Piz, as given in the work alluded to, is correct.
