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signifying

/sig-nuh-fahy-ing/US // ˈsɪg nəˌfaɪ ɪŋ //

意味着,寓意,标志着

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : sounding

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbmean, indicate
Forms: signifyings

Examples

  • David Foster Wallace even named a chapter in his tome Brief Interviews with Hideous Men “Signifying Nothing.”

  • It was a cosmic rout, signifying the end of an order, even the death of Spanish football as it is currently played.

  • The city roiled with place names signifying race trouble: Bensonhurst, Howard Beach, the Central Park Jogger, Crown Heights.

  • So instead, Republican senators have launched an attack on Hagel filled with sound and fury but signifying very little.

  • If the Arabs had just accepted Zionism (signifying their own dispossession), then World War II might have turned out differently.

  • It is not simply acquiescing in that Covenant in the heart, but signifying that acquiescence in a positive service.

  • The prophet sends chains to divers kings, signifying that they must bend their necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon.

  • The acceptance of a bill is the signifying by the drawee that he has assented to the drawer's order, and must be in writing.

  • Bearo, first signifying the grove itself, might easily come to mark the shelter which the grove afforded.

  • These streams are also variously interpreted as signifying the four evangelists, and the four rivers of paradise.