sign meaning
EN[saɪn] [-aɪn]US
WSign
- A sign is an object, quality, event, or entity whose presence or occurrence indicates the probable presence or occurrence of something else.
- The philosophical study of signs and symbols is called semiotics; this includes the study of semiosis, which is the way in which signs (in the semiotic sense) operate.
- NounPLsigns
- (sometimes also used uncountably) A visible indication.
- Their angry expressions were a clear sign they didn't want to talk.
- Those clouds show signs of raining soon.
- Those clouds show little sign of raining soon.
- Signs of disease are objective, whereas symptoms are subjective.
- The hunters found deer sign at the end of the trail.
- A clearly visible object, generally flat, bearing a short message in words or pictures.
- The sign in the window advertised a room for rent.
- A traffic sign.
- I missed the sign at the corner so I took the wrong turn.
- A meaningful gesture.
- I gave them a thumbs-up sign.
- Any of several specialized non-alphabetic symbols.
- The sharp sign indicates that the pitch of the note is raised a half step.
- (astrology) An astrological sign.
- Your sign is Taurus? That's no surprise.
- (mathematics) Positive or negative polarity.
- I got the magnitude right, but the sign was wrong.
- A specific gesture or motion used to communicate by those with speaking or hearing difficulties; now specifically, a linguistic unit in sign language equivalent to word in spoken languages.
- (uncountable) Sign language in general.
- Sorry, I don't know sign very well.
- An omen.
- "It's a sign of the end of the world," the doom prophet said.
- (medicine) A property of the body that indicates a disease and, unlike a symptom, is unlikely to be noticed by the patient.
- A military emblem carried on a banner or standard.
- (sometimes also used uncountably) A visible indication.
- VerbSGsignsPRsigningPT, PPsigned
- To make a mark.
- The Queen signed her letter with the regal signet.
- Meantime revolving in his thoughtful mind / The scar, with which his manly knee was sign'd […].
- Enquire the Iewes house out, giue him this deed, / And let him signe it […].
- I forgot to sign that letter to my aunt.
- Just sign your name at the bottom there.
- I received a letter from some woman who signs herself ‘Mrs Trellis’.
- Please sign on the dotted line.
- Agents say Wales back Gavin Henson has signed for Cardiff Blues.
- It was a great month. I managed to sign three major players.
- To make the sign of the cross.
- We receive this child into the congregation of Christ's flock, and do sign him with the sign of the cross.
- Shaking a fist at him with one fierce arm, / Signing himself with the other because of Christ.
- To indicate.
- I signed to Browne to make his retreat.
- He signed me that I should follow him through the doorway.
- To make a mark.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- "I worry sometimes," says Lyn, the overtherapized feminist in Lily Tomlin's The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.
- In addition, excessive accumulation of complement proteins is the major cause of drusens, whose deposition in the eye is an early sign of age-related macular degeration (AMD) [46 ].
- They first calculated the fractal dimension containing ductal lumens and then they analyzed the fractal details of the ductal network in galactograms to detect early signs of cancerous tissues.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Signs of such conflicts could be seen in the protest against numeri clausi at universities
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Two patients presented with occipitalgia, two patients presented with torticollis and three patients developed neurologic signs.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of sign in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary