sign
签名,符号,标志,签署
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Definitions
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- : a token; indication.
- : any object, action, event, pattern, etc., that conveys a meaning.
- : a conventional or arbitrary mark, figure, or symbol used as an abbreviation for the word or words it represents.
- : a motion or gesture used to express or convey an idea, command, decision, etc.: Her nod was a sign that it was time to leave.
- : a notice, bearing a name, direction, warning, or advertisement, that is displayed or posted for public view: a traffic sign; a store sign.
- : a trace; vestige: There wasn't a sign of them.
- : an arbitrary or conventional symbol used in musical notation to indicate tonality, tempo, etc.
- : Medicine/Medical. the objective indications of a disease.
- : any meaningful gestural unit belonging to a sign language.
- : an omen; portent: a sign of approaching decadence.
- : sign of the zodiac.
- : sign language.
- : Usually signs. traces, as footprints, of a wild animal.
- : Mathematics. a plus sign or minus sign used as a symbol for indicating addition or subtraction.a plus sign or minus sign used as a symbol for indicating the positive or negative value of a quantity, as an integer.multiplication sign. division sign. a symbol, as or !, used to indicate a radical or factorial operation.
- 1
- : to affix a signature to: to sign a letter.
- : to write as a signature: to sign one's name.
- : to engage by written agreement: to sign a new player.
- : to mark with a sign, especially the sign of the cross.
- : to communicate by means of a sign; signal: He signed his wish to leave.
- : to convey in a sign language.
- : Obsolete. to direct or appoint by a sign.
- 1
- : to write one's signature, as a token of agreement, obligation, receipt, etc.: to sign for a package.
- : to make a sign or signal: He signed to her to go away.
- : to employ a sign language for communication.
- : to obligate oneself by signature: He signed with another team for the next season.
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- : sign away / over to assign or dispose of by affixing one's signature to a document: She signed over her fortune to the church.
- : sign in, to record or authorize one's arrival by signing a register.Also sign out.
- : sign off, to withdraw, as from some responsibility or connection.to cease radio or television broadcasting, especially at the end of the day.Informal.to become silent: He had exhausted conversation topics and signed off.to indicate one's approval explicitly if not formally: The president is expected to sign off on the new agreement.
- : sign on, to employ; hire.to bind oneself to work, as by signing a contract: He signed on as a pitcher with a major-league team.to start radio or television broadcasting, especially at the beginning of the day.Computers.log.
- : sign up, to enlist, as in an organization or group; to register or subscribe: to sign up for the navy; to sign up for class.
Phrases
- sign in
- sign off
- sign on
- sign one's own death warrant
- sign on the dotted line
- sign out
- sign over
- sign up
- high sign
- show signs of
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
It’s the most precaution Valderruten has taken before a first date, and it’s a sign of how much the singles scene has changed in the past year.
The fact that I was even thinking that was a sign of how you start doubting your whole reality.
The stormy pattern shows no signs of stopping, with four more chances for wintry precipitation over the next week.
Senior aides to the impeachment managers’ team claim they are seeing signs that some Republicans may be wavering and might be convinced to vote for a conviction.
In a true sign that the Politico of 2021 is not the Politico of, say, 2008, the Playbook crew didn’t publish the story 30 seconds after asking for comment.
They are always suspended over a precipice, dangling by a slender thread that shows every sign of snapping.
It was hard not to take it as a sign, a personal comment on my own Jewish dating failings.
If he did, it could be a sign that our politicians are ready to resume genuine policy-making across party lines.
President Harry Truman kept a sign on his desk that read: “The Buck Stops Here.”
Even then, most of us doubted he would show up and actually sign the papers allowing him to enter the 1992 New Hampshire primary.
Its continued presence in pulmonary tuberculosis is, however, a grave prognostic sign, even when the physical signs are slight.
Idly his pen traced upon the paper in front of him a large X, the sign of the unknown quantity.
Here they are seldom abundant, but their constant presence is the most reliable urinary sign of the disease.
Waxy casts are found in most advanced cases of nephritis, where they are an unfavorable sign.
Scouts reported that Porter still occupied his camp, and showed no sign of moving.