sign
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7.2
- noun
- /saɪn/
- Specialized
:
signo
- Here we know we can identify every sign, right?
- a sign system
- linguistic sign
- arbitrary sign
But it's I rather you learn how to do that than to rely on the interpreting of signs where it can get really messy.
- But it's I rather you learn how to do that than to rely on the interpreting of signs where it can get really messy.
- We want there to be some sort of connection, and not a purely arbitrary one between the sign and what the sign is the sign of.
- Then we have technologies of sign systems, he says.
- You're learning the signs, the sounds, and as your knowledge as a tracker deepens, it's like you're being let into another level.
Examples
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Take this walkway, then you'll go through the building... and you'll see signs for the main hospital on the other side.
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Names are supposed to be signs for things.
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The circle is the sign of magic and power.
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I'm going to make a sign, and any good or any evil that is inside you will be in this egg.
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I could not read this body, this sign of bone, flesh, and hair.
Fiction book (1995) -
Lily of the valley is considered a sign of Christ's second coming.
Academic text (2017) -
According to the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce, human beings think only in signs.
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In linguistics, a sign is an essential element that links a word with its meaning.
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The professor explained that linguistic signs connect sounds to meanings in language.
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In semiotics, a sign represents the relationship between the form of a word and what it signifies.
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
41
2.4
Measurements like heart rate or blood pressure that show how well the body is working
32
2.8
A language using hand signs and face movements to communicate, often used by people who are deaf
3
3.9
A language of hand signs and body movements used by deaf people in the United States and parts of Canada
1
5.1
One of twelve parts of the sky used in astrology to show personality and give horoscopes
1
2.7
A gesture made by holding up the index and middle fingers in a V shape to show victory or peace
- Specialized
A big toe moving upward when the sole is stroked, normal in babies but showing nerve damage in adults
- Archaic
A purplish colour of the lining of the vagina that appears in early pregnancy
- Specialized
A sign when the knee cannot fully straighten with the thigh bent, showing a possible brain infection
- Specialized
Blue colour of fingers and toes when tiny blood vessels tighten from cold or stress
- UK
The written name of a king or queen on an official document showing personal approval
- Specialized
A Cyrillic letter that makes the consonant before it sound with the tongue near the roof of the mouth
How Symbolic
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word sign comes from the Latin signum, meaning 'mark'. In language theory a sign links a sound or form to an idea, like a 'mark' that joins what we say with what we mean.