Signify

Word SIGNIFY
Character 7
Hyphenation sig ni fy
Pronunciations /ˈsɪɡnɪfaɪ/

Definitions and meanings of "Signify"

What do we mean by signify?

To denote; mean. intransitive verb

To be a sign or indication of; suggest or imply. intransitive verb

To make known, as with a sign or word. intransitive verb

To have meaning or importance. intransitive verb

To exchange humorous insults in a verbal game. intransitive verb

To be a sign or token of (a fact or pretended fact); represent or suggest, either naturally or conventionally; betoken; mean.

To import, in the Paracelsian sense. See signature, 2.

To import relatively; have the purport or bearing of; matter in regard to (something expressed or implied): as, that signifies little or nothing to us; it signifies much.

To make known by signs, speech, or action; communicate; give notice of; announce; declare.

To exhibit as a sign or representation; make as a similitude.

Synonyms To manifest, intimate, denote, imply, indicate.

To have import or meaning; be of consequence; matter.

To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to express. transitive verb

To mean; to import; to denote; to betoken. transitive verb

To give (something) a meaning or an importance. verb

To show one’s intentions with a sign etc. verb

To mean; to betoken. verb

Denote or connote verb

Make known with a word or signal verb

Convey or express a meaning verb

To create a sign out of something.

To give (something) a meaning or an importance.

To show one’s intentions with a sign etc.; to indicate, announce.

To mean; to betoken.

To make a difference; to matter (in negative or interrogative expressions).

(Adjective): Trying to be daring and audacious in a big way. Combination of 'significant' and 'defiant'. Urban Dictionary

An indication of something or someone Urban Dictionary

Inquisitive to a fault ie.nosey Urban Dictionary

In Lacanian theory, a signifier which stops the slippage of the signified under the signifier and fixes meaning, thereby forming a stable symbolic order. It is a particular signifier with no signified of its own, which stands in for the "fullness" of the meaning of the symbolic system itself. However, since contingency and lack are taken to be primary in Lacanian theory, it is necessarily arbitrary and is unable to guarantee its own primacy except through arbitrary and ungrounded violence. It is always haunted by the return of the Real. Urban Dictionary

Webnovel signifies nothing Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Signify

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The word "signify" in example sentences

Not only does the term signify full recognition of nursing's human foundation and meaning but it also points the direction for nursing's necessary development. ❋ Josephine G. Paterson (N/A)

Canonical Books, it was but an easy step to make the term signify the ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Alexandria makes the term signify in Syria, impudent, thieving, wicked. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

Removing these monuments would signify is a clear aggression against Russian sentiment. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What these developments signify is that with respect to competition policy Canada has some considerable yardage to make up. ❋ Unknown (1975)

So rapid is this movement that "quick as a wink" is a common phrase to signify speed, and the German word for "an instant" is ein Augenblick ( "an eyewink"). ❋ Asimov, Isaac (1963)

Where was Mount Calvary, and what does the name signify? ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

In no single one of them does the expression signify the community or the congregation taken in a distinctly democratic sense, by which emphasis would be laid on the self-government of the faithful. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

We are associates in business; business of a most important -- But what does that term signify to you, my precious ladybird? ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)

The three elements composing his name signify "the mighty one of the great dwelling-place," but it is, again, an open question whether this is a mere play upon the character of the god, as in the name of Ea (according to one of the interpretations above suggested), or whether it is an ideographic form of the name. ❋ Morris Jastrow (1891)

The two Chinese characters forming the word signify respectively, 'a hundred '(hyaku), and' family name ' ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

It is most probable, according to the notion of Madame Dacier, that this Ω, being the last letter of the Greek alphabet, was nothing more than the mark of the transcriber to signify the end, like the Latin word ‘Finis’ in modern books; or it might, as Patrick supposes, stand for Ωδος, ❋ Terence (1847)

The letters at the end of a name signify A assassinated; I imprisoned; G guillotined; M massacred; ❋ Henry Goudemetz (1787)

Whoredoms in the spiritual sense of the word signify the connubial connection of what is evil and false, 428. ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)

The words here rendered cannot obtain signify cannot gain the happiness sought after. ❋ Unknown (1721)

"vex," therefore, is the heightening of grieving by a provocation unto anger and indignation: which sense is suited to the place and matter treated of, though the word signify no more but to "grieve;" and so it is rendered by lupeo, Gen. xlv. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)

Together these terms signify that worship is a work that invites the whole people of God in the transforming sacrifice of Christ Bauman, 1994, 103. ❋ Alex Tang (2010)

It would have been more accurate to compare Nazism and Communism, as those terms signify the two ideologies and systems of rule. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"What can his mentioning or not mentioning her name signify? ❋ Henry Harland (1883)

God's peculiar service in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper (which is but a separation of it from the common use to signify, that is, to put men in mind of, their redemption by the Passion of Christ, whose body was broken and blood shed upon the cross for our transgressions), pretends that by saying of the words of our ❋ Unknown (2007)

"Cyclists blocked car traffic as part of their [signifiant] campaign to force the city to create more bike lanes." "Dude, trying to [chat up] that hot girl you had [no chance] with was signifiant!" ❋ Skai (2009)

[The bible] signifys [the second coming of Jesus] ❋ SigySig (2020)

He is signifying our [conversation]. ❋ Pete Gold (2003)

In my view, this concept is useful but its basis is mistaken. What is repressed is active desire, [held down] for fear of punishment, and not some kind of [ontological] void. [Lacan] is wrong to pose his problems on such a metaphysical level. ❋ Andy (2004)

Webnovel signifies nothing ❋ Real Alberto (2022)

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