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Sign   /saɪn/   Listen
Sign

noun
1.
A perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened).  Synonym: mark.  "They welcomed the signs of spring"
2.
A public display of a message.
3.
Any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message.  Synonyms: signal, signaling.
4.
Structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted.  Synonym: signboard.
5.
(astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided.  Synonyms: house, mansion, planetary house, sign of the zodiac, star sign.
6.
(medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease.
7.
Having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges).  Synonym: polarity.  "Charges of opposite sign"
8.
An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.  Synonyms: augury, foretoken, preindication.  "It was a sign from God"
9.
A gesture that is part of a sign language.
10.
A fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified.
11.
A character indicating a relation between quantities.
verb
(past & past part. signed; pres. part. signing)
1.
Mark with one's signature; write one's name (on).  Synonym: subscribe.  "Please sign here"
2.
Approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation.  Synonym: ratify.  "Have you signed your contract yet?"
3.
Be engaged by a written agreement.  "The soprano signed to sing the new opera"
4.
Engage by written agreement.  Synonyms: contract, sign on, sign up.
5.
Communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs.  Synonyms: signal, signalise, signalize.  "The diner signaled the waiters to bring the menu"
6.
Place signs, as along a road.  "This road has been signed"
7.
Communicate in sign language.
8.
Make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate.  Synonym: bless.
adjective
1.
Used of the language of the deaf.  Synonyms: gestural, sign-language, signed.



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"Sign" Quotes from Famous Books



... that of continued, persistent self-improvement. No element of progress is so efficient as a wholesome discontent. "I count not myself to have attained," says the great apostle of progress. To sit down self-satisfied with present attainments is in itself a sign that you have not yet risen much. It is to belong to the owls and the bats of the lower valleys. One must already have ascended to lofty heights before he can even see the higher Alps ...
— In the School-Room - Chapters in the Philosophy of Education • John S. Hart
... showering rice upon the couple. Finally the sheet is withdrawn, they and their chairs are placed side by side, each is given a cocoanut to hold that is bound to the other by a string, emblematic of the plenty that may bless the new home, and they are declared man and wife. Then they sign a document certifying that they have been united according to the Parsee ritual and ...
— The Critic in the Orient • George Hamlin Fitch
... in the act of opening the swing-door stealthily, and was half through when I saw that Mr Dempster was acting precisely in the same way, stealing through the inner doorway, and making me a sign to stop. ...
— To The West • George Manville Fenn
... is the gesture of bounty, liberality, and a free heart; and thus we reward, and bestow gifts. Placing with vehemence the right fist in the left palm is a gesture commonly used to mock, chide, insult, reproach, and rebuke. To beckon with the raised hand is a universal sign of craving audience and entreating a favorable silence. To wave the hand from us, the palm outward, is the gesture of repulsion, aversion, dismissal. To shake the fist at one signifies anger and defiance and threatening. ...
— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick
... the first daub inside of thirty minutes. I will go with you and pick up the breakfasts; then you will go it alone. Don't leave a piece of board as big as a postage stamp uncovered. Wherever you strike a farmer, make him sign a brief agreement not to let anyone cover our paper. Pay him something in addition to the tickets you give him. Here is an agreement that you can copy from. Make your route as quickly as you can and do it well; then hurry back ...
— The Circus Boys on the Plains • Edgar B. P. Darlington


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