check off vs indicate

check off

verb
  • To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory); to tick off (UK), tick (UK), cross off, strike off. 

  • To carry out a decision recorded through the process of checking off an item on a list, including dealing with it, removing it from the possible choices, or removing the not checked items from further consideration. 

  • To deduct union members' dues from their wages. 

indicate

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

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

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

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

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