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Verb: sign sIn- Mark with one's signature; write one's name (on)
"She signed the letter and sent it off"; "Please sign here"
- subscribe - Approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation
"Have you signed your contract yet?"
- ratify - Be engaged by a written agreement
"He signed to play the casino on Dec. 18"; "The soprano signed to sing the new opera" - Engage by written agreement
"They signed two new pitchers for the next season"
- contract, sign on, sign up - Communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs
"He signed his disapproval with a dismissive hand gesture"
- signal, signalize, signalise [Brit] - Place signs, as along a road
"sign an intersection"; "This road has been signed" - Communicate in sign language
"I don't know how to sign, so I could not communicate with my deaf cousin" - Make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate
- bless
Noun: sign sIn- A perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
"he showed signs of strain"; "they welcomed the signs of spring"
- mark - A public display of a message
"he posted signs in all the shop windows" - Any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
- signal, signaling [US], signalling - Structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted
- signboard - (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- sign of the zodiac, star sign, mansion, house, planetary house - (medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease
"there were no signs of asphyxiation" - Having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges)
"charges of opposite sign"
- polarity - An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come
"it was a sign from God"
- augury, foretoken, preindication - A gesture that is part of a sign language
- A fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified
- A character indicating a relation between quantities
"don't forget the minus sign"
Adjective: sign sIn- Used of the language of the deaf
- gestural, signed, sign-language
Sounds like: sine, syne Derived forms: signed, signs, signing See also: communicative, communicatory, sign away, sign in, signature, signer, signify, signing Type of: clew, clue, communicate, communication, construction, contract, cue, employ, engage, evidence, experience, formalise [Brit], formalize, gesticulate, gesture, grounds, hire, intercommunicate, language unit, lay, linguistic unit, mathematical notation, motion, oppositeness, opposition, part, place, pose, position, put, region, set, structure, undertake, validate, write Part of: disease, sign language, signing, zodiac Encyclopedia: Sign |