sign situation
chiefly Linguistics and Semiotics
noun
A situation or context in which a sign is interpreted by one or more interpreters with respect to a particular set of reference points.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Charles Kay Ogden (1889–1957), psychologist.
- opportunity
- opportunity cost
- opportunity knocks
- opportunity shop
- opportunity state
- opposability
- opposable
- opposant
- oppose
- opposed
- opposedness
- opposer
- opposing
- opposingly
- opposite
- opposite field
- opposite-leaved
- oppositely
- oppositeness
- opposite number
- opposite prompt
- oppositifolious
- opposition
- oppositional
- oppositionality