{
    "term": "index",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a list of names or topics that are referred to in a book, etc., usually arranged at the end of a book in alphabetical order or listed in a separate file or book",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Look it up in the index."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Author and subject indexes are available on a library database."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Is there any reference to it in the index?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's a general index to the whole work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The index only gives the main towns."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The topic I was interested in didn't appear in the index."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His novels were put on the index of banned books."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The detailed index lists all the historical characters referred to in the book."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Literature and writing"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["complete", "comprehensive", "detailed"],
                "verb + index": ["appear in", "be in", "consult"],
                "index + verb": ["give something", "list something"],
                "index + noun": ["card"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the index", "index to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a box of cards with information on them, arranged in alphabetical order",
            "labels": "(British English)North American English",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a system that shows the level of prices and wages, etc. so that they can be compared with those of a previous date",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the cost-of-living index"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Dow Jones index fell 15 points this morning."
                },
                {
                    "text": "stock market indices"
                },
                {
                    "text": "house price indexes"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most commodity funds track a specific commodity index."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Morgan Stanley Cyclical index posted a small advance."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The NYSE Financial index gained 20%."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The commodities index fell 3.1%."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company is listed on the Nasdaq technology stocks index."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The hundred shares index closed down 15 points."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Money"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["good", "reliable", "sensitive"],
                "verb + index": ["have", "use (something as)", "compile"],
                "index + verb": ["add something", "gain something", "increase"],
                "preposition": ["in an/​the index", "on an/​the index"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a drop in an index",
                    "a fall in an index",
                    "changes in an index"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a number giving a measurement of something compared with a particular standard",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "White bread has a high glycaemic index."
                },
                {
                    "text": "pain management index scores"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "a sign or measure that something else can be judged by",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The number of new houses being built is a good index of a country's prosperity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The test results were used as an index of language proficiency."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Those who lived in the inner cities had a high index of deprivation."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["good", "reliable", "sensitive"],
                "verb + index": ["have", "use (something as)", "compile"],
                "index + verb": ["add something", "gain something", "increase"],
                "preposition": ["in an/​the index", "on an/​the index"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a drop in an index",
                    "a fall in an index",
                    "changes in an index"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "a list of the records in a computer file with information about where each is located",
            "labels": "(computing)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Search the index to find the address of the data file."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The index of a search engine is like a library."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Computers"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "the small number written above a larger number to show how many times that number must be multiplied by itself. In the equation 42 = 16, the number 2 is an index.",
            "labels": "(mathematics)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Maths and measurement"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɪndeks/",
                "audio": "in/index/index__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɪndɪsiːz/",
                "audio": "in/index/indices__gb_4.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɪndeks/",
                "audio": "in/index/index__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɪndɪsiːz/",
                "audio": "in/index/indices__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "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’ (the finger with which one points), came to mean ‘pointer’ (late 16th cent.), and figuratively something that serves to point to a fact or conclusion; hence a list of topics in a book (“pointing” to their location)."
}