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An index is an alphabetical (A to Z) list, usually at the back of a book, where you can find the pages in a book that talk about particular things or words. Look in the index to see where they talk about Chomsky. An index shows the level of prices, wages, etc. so you can compare them with those of an earlier date. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones index closed 10 points up at 2,731.23.

index

If you index something, you make an index (guide) for it. If you index something to a certain price level, you make it go up or down with that level.

index

a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time a numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number list in an index provide with an index index the book adjust through indexation The government indexes wages and prices an alphabetical listing of names and topics along with page numbers where they are discussed the finger next to the thumb (= exponent) a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself

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Simple sentences

The stock price index was off 200 points yesterday.
The stock price index soared to an all-time high.
It is an index of her character.
Is there an index to the book?
The consumer price index has been fluctuating wildly.
The Nikkei index jumped dramatically just before closing.
In a fit of anger I punched the wall and broke my index finger.
The hand has five fingers: the thumb, the index finger, the middle finger, the ring finger, and the pinky.
The application allows you to quickly calculate the ratio of body mass index - BMI.
Men have a longer ring finger than index finger, while both fingers tend to be the same length for women.
He grabbed the butterfly with his thumb and index finger.

Movie subtitles

Heart, lungs, height, weight, index.
All right. Your Schneider index seems too good to be true these days.
No. Look in the index.
This card index file is in an awful mess.
You know, checking our dogtags and our pans against their index file.
For by the way I'll sort occasion. as index to the story we late talked on. to part the queen's proud kindred from the prince.
Like air, like the wind, like a vacuum that you make believe has an existence by scribbling index numbers on little cards.
Roll index angle minus two degrees.
You've used a card index?
We've come to request your confidential card index system.
Jaguar's index number - Bravo, Yankee, Romeo 502 Bravo.
Programme is voice-index locked.
Index and thumb of right hand missing.
Warp index 2.7.
You can find it here in index number 15.
They herded us out, put extra machine guns on us and gave us a picture check. You know, checking our dogtags and our pans against their index file.
I'd say The Times Index for this.
Peg, Tribune Index, last fall.
It would be less complicated to adjust your index of refraction.
My index of.?
You now possess a refractive index of exactly one on the optic scale approximating that of air.
I can't help it, it's my index of re.
They say you deal blackjack with three fingers: thumb, index and trigger.
A hand cast down, the other on your chin, index finger over your mouth. as if to stifle a cry.
First the index finger of his right hand. A week later, his left foot. Finally, in a basket under a layer of figs, his head.
Can I only invite people you have cleared for security, or do I have to check them against a card index?
Pass me the card index, would you?
It has a table of contents, an index and up-to-date vendor cards.
Don't you catalog all women and keep them neatly filed in a sort of mental card index?
I checked his index and found that he had every variety except one.
Index, middle finger and thumb, all clear as rain.
Not like that, hold it between your index an middle finger.
An arm half-bent toward your hair. A hand cast down, the other on your chin, index finger over your mouth. as if to stifle a cry.
An index and obscure prologue to the history of lust and foul thoughts.
Move the index finger.
Program is classified under voice-index lock.
Worp index: 2.7.
Guess where I have my index today, professor.
Please, call the special card-index.
Will you look up in your card-index, if there is any recording of Pastor Schlagg's interrogation by Stirlitz.

News and current affairs

One successful gold investor recently explained to me that stock prices languished for a more than a decade before the Dow Jones index crossed the 1,000 mark in the early 1980's.
Their financial trust index, based on a large-scale survey of financial decision-makers in American households, did show a sharp fall in trust in late 2008 and early 2009, following the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
The latest Eurostat figures on the evolution of the price index for self-produced goods (GDP deflator) show no tendency whatsoever in the crisis-stricken countries towards real devaluation.
Gallup's results, which form the basis of the World Giving Index 2014, indicate that approximately 2.3 billion people, a third of the world's population, perform at least one altruistic act per month.
The United States is consistently ranked among the world's top ten countries for innovation, including by INSEAD's Global Innovation Index.
But, on the Global Peace Index, it is ranked 88th of 153 countries.
Likewise, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands rank, respectively, fifth and sixth on the Innovation Index, but only 28th and 29th on the Peace Index.
For one thing, its purchasing power is already scraping along at a fairly low level globally - indeed, near an all-time low, according to the Fed's broad dollar exchange-rate index.
A liquid, cash-settled futures market that is based on an index of home prices in a city would enable a homeowner living there to sell in a futures market to protect himself.
Annan and Gurría also neglected to note that global Accumulated Cyclone Energy, an index for total hurricane activity, is hovering at the lowest values seen since the 1970's.
The Economist's euro-denominated Commodity Price Index, for example, has actually risen over the last year; it is only the Index in terms of dollars - which is what gets all of the attention - that is down.
According to the conventional wisdom, the authorities consistently intervened not only to try to boost the market after the collapse, but also during its year-long run-up, when the Shanghai Stock Exchange composite index more than doubled.
Since then, the index has climbed above 10,000.
According to the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Index, the US slipped to fifth place in 2011-2012, from fourth place the previous year, continuing a general downward trend evident since 2005.
Indeed, if there were such a thing as a combined index of despair, Colombia would be an undisputed leader.
To compare median household incomes over time, the authorities divide these annual dollar values by the consumer price index to create annual real median household incomes.
Finally, the price index used by the Census Bureau fails to capture the important contributions of new products and product improvements to Americans' standard of living.
To convert annual incomes to real incomes, the CBO used the price deflator for consumer expenditures, which many believe is better for this purpose than the consumer price index.
The authorities arrive at their estimates by converting dollar incomes into a measure of real income by using a price index that reflects the changes in the prices of existing goods and services.
But that price index does not reflect new products or improvements to existing goods and services.
Although its purpose is to help judges and attorneys to understand the science from which legal evidence is derived, its index contains no entry for earthquakes.
Institutional reform must therefore move beyond the BCB's inadequate price-stability target, which is set according to a narrow inflation index that fails to reflect the experiences of ordinary Brazilian consumers.
The Shanghai stock market index soared from 2,200 a year ago to a peak of 5,100 in mid-summer and then dropped sharply, to about 3,000 now.
The index goes from 0 to 10, with 13 sub-indices for overall growth and productivity.
According to the social science citations index, he ranks well among the most important economists since Adam Smith.
Absent large price changes for raw materials, the consumer price index evolves along with the GDP deflator (the price deflator for the entire economy).
The only exception is when monetary policy is conducted in a manner that focuses on the prices of particular goods rather than on stabilization of a broad price index.
This would be unnecessary if Hong Kong adopted a monetary policy aimed at stabilizing a broad price index like the kind of policy pursued in the US, the euro zone, and most of the world.
But can central banks stabilize a falling price index as effectively as a rising one?

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