Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 78
Sigh (v. t.) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
Ages to come, and men unborn, Shall bless her name, and sigh her fate. -- Pior.
Sigh (v. t.) To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
They . . . sighed forth proverbs. -- Shak.
The gentle swain . . . sighs back her grief. -- Hoole.
Sigh (n.) A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing.
I could drive the boat with my sighs. -- Shak.
Sigh (n.) Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lament.
With their sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite. -- Milton.
Sigh (n.) An utterance made by exhaling audibly [syn: {sigh}, {suspiration}].
Sigh (n.) A sound like a person sighing; "she heard the sigh of the wind in the trees".
Sigh (v.) Heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily; "She sighed sadly" [syn: {sigh}, {suspire}].
Sigh (v.) Utter with a sigh.
Sigh-born (a.) Sorrowful; mournful. [R.] "Sigh-born thoughts." -- De Quincey.
Sigher (n.) One who sighs.
Sighing (a.) Uttering sighs; grieving; lamenting. "Sighing millions." -- Cowper. -- {Sigh"ing*ly}, adv.
Sight (n.) The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.
A cloud received him out of their sight. -- Acts. i. 9.
Sight (n.) The power of seeing; the faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes.
Thy sight is young, And thou shalt read when mine begin to dazzle. -- Shak.
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! -- Milton.
Sight (n.) The state of admitting unobstructed vision; visibility; open view; region which the eye at one time surveys; space through which the power of vision extends; as, an object within sight.
Sight (n.) A spectacle; a view; a show; something worth seeing.
Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. -- Ex. iii. 3.
They never saw a sight so fair. -- Spenser.
Sight (n.) The instrument of seeing; the eye.
Why cloud they not their sights? -- Shak.
Sight (n.) Inspection; examination; as, a letter intended for the sight of only one person.
Sight (n.) Mental view; opinion; judgment; as, in their sight it was harmless. -- Wake.
That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. -- Luke xvi. 15.
Sight (n.) A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained; as, the sight of a quadrant.
Thier eyes of fire sparking through sights of steel. -- Shak.
Sight (n.) An optical device or small piece of metal, fixed or movable, on the breech, muzzle, center, or trunnion of a gun, or on the breech and the muzzle of a rifle, pistol, etc., by means of which the eye is guided in aiming. A telescope mounted on a weapon, such as a rifle, and used for accurate aiming at distant targets is called a telescopic sight. -- Farrow.
Sight (n.) A small piece of metal, fixed or movable, on the breech, muzzle, center, or trunnion of a gun, or on the breech and the muzzle of a rifle, pistol, etc., by means of which the eye is guided in aiming.
Sight (n.) In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame or the like, the open space, the opening.
Sight (n.) A great number, quantity, or sum; as, a sight of money. [Now colloquial]
Note: Sight in this last sense was formerly employed in the best usage. "A sight of lawyers." -- Latimer.
A wonder sight of flowers. -- Gower.
At sight, as soon as seen, or presented to sight; as, a draft payable at sight: to read Greek at sight; to shoot a person at sight.
Front sight (Firearms), The sight nearest the muzzle.
Open sight. (Firearms) (a) A front sight through which the objects aimed at may be seen, in distinction from one that hides the object.
Open sight. (Firearms) (b) A rear sight having an open notch instead of an aperture.
Peep sight, Rear sight. See under Peep, and Rear.
Sight draft, () An order, or bill of exchange, directing the payment of money at sight.
Sight draft, () To take sight, To take aim; to look for the purpose of directing a piece of artillery, or the like.
Syn: Vision; view; show; spectacle;
representation; exhibition.
Sighted (imp. & p. p.) of Sight.
Sighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sight.
Sight (v. t.) To get sight of; to see; as, to sight land; to sight a wreck. -- Kane.
Sight (v. t.) To look at through a sight; to see accurately; as, to sight an object, as a star.
Sight (v. t.) To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight; as, to sight a rifle or a cannon.
Sight (v. i.) (Mil.) To take aim by a sight.
Sight (n.) An instance of visual perception; "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight".
Sight (n.) Anything that is seen; "he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights".
Sight (n.) The ability to see; the visual faculty [syn: sight, vision, visual sense, visual modality].
Sight (n.) A range of mental vision; "in his sight she could do no wrong".
Sight (n.) The range of vision; "out of sight of land" [syn: sight, ken].
Sight (n.) The act of looking or seeing or observing; "he tried to get a better view of it"; "his survey of the battlefield was limited" [syn: view, survey, sight].
Sight (n.) (Often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad].
Sight (v.) Catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge" [syn: spy, sight].
Sight (v.) Take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device).
Sight, () contracts. Bills of exchange are frequently made payable at sight, that is, on presentment, which might be taken naturally to mean that the bill should then be paid without further delay; but although the point be not clearly settled, it seems the drawee is entitled to the days of grace. Beaw. Lex Mer. pl. 256; Kyd on Bills, 10; Chit. on Bills, 343-4; Bayley on Bills, 42, 109, 110; Selw. N. P. 339.
Sight, () The holder of a bill payable at sight, is required to use due diligence to put it into circulation, or have it presented for acceptance within a reasonable time. 20 John. 146; 7 Cowen, 705; 12 Pick. 399 13 Mass. 137; 4 Mason, 336; 5 Mason's 118; 1 McCord, 322; 1 Hawks, 195.
Sight, () When the bill is payable any number of days after sight, the time begins to run from the period of presentment and acceptance, and not from the time of mere presentment. 1 Mason, 176; 20 John. 176.
Sighted (a.) Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp-sighted, and the like.
Sighted (a.) Able to see [ant: blind, unsighted].
Sightful (a.) Easily or clearly seen; distinctly visible; perspicuous. [Obs.] -- Testament of Love.
Sightfulness (n.) The state of being sightful; perspicuity. [Obs.] -- Sir P. Sidney.
Sight-hole (n.) A hole for looking through; a peephole. "Stop all sight-holes." -- Shak.
Sighting () a. & n. from Sight, v. t.
Sightless (a.) Lacking sight; without sight; blind.
Of all who blindly creep or sightless soar. -- Pope.
Sightless (a.) That can not be seen; invisible. [Obs.]
The sightless couriers of the air. -- Shak.
Sightless (a.) Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly; as, sightless stains. [R.] -- Shak.
-- Sight"less*ly, adv.- Sight"less*ness, n.
Sightless (a.) Lacking sight; "blind as an eyeless beggar" [syn: eyeless, sightless, unseeing].
Sightliness (n.) The state of being sightly; comeliness; conspicuousness.
Sightly (a.) Pleasing to the sight; comely. "Many brave, sightly horses." -- L'Estrange.
Sightly (a.) Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place.
Sightly (a.) Very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens" [syn: bonny, bonnie, comely, fair, sightly].
Sightproof (a.) Undiscoverable to sight.
Hidden in their own sightproof bush. -- Lowell.
Sight-seeing (a.) Engaged in, or given to, seeing sights; eager for novelties or curiosities.
Sight-seeing (n.) The act of seeing sights; eagerness for novelties or curiosities.
Sight-seer (n.) One given to seeing sights or noted things, or eager for novelties or curiosities.
Sight-shot (n.) Distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown. [R.] -- Cowley.
Sightsmen (n. pl. ) of Sightsman.
Sightsman (n.) (Mus.) One who reads or performs music readily at first sight. -- Busby.
Sigil (n.) A seal; a signature. -- Dryden.
Of talismans and sigils knew the power. -- Pope.
Sigillaria (n. pl.) Little images or figures of earthenware exposed for sale, or given as presents, on the last two days of the Saturnalia; hence, the last two, or the sixth and seventh, days of the Saturnalia.
Sigillaria (n.) A genus of fossil trees principally found in the coal formation; -- so named from the seallike leaf scars in vertical rows on the surface.
Sigillarid (n.) One of an extinct family of cryptagamous trees, including the genus Sigillaria and its allies.
Sigillated (a.) Decorated by means of stamps; -- said of pottery.
Sigillative (a.) Fit to seal; belonging to a seal; composed of wax.
Sigilla (n. pl. ) of Sigillum.
Sigillum (n.) A seal.
Sigla (n. pl.) The signs, abbreviations, letters, or characters standing for words, shorthand, etc., in ancient manuscripts, or on coins, medals, etc.
Sigmas (n. pl. ) of Sigma.
SIGMA () A scientific visual programming environment from NASA.
Sigma (n.; pl.) {Sigmas} The Greek letter [Sigma], [sigma], or [sigmat] (English S, or s). It originally had the form of the English C.
Sigma (n.) 希臘文第十八個字母 The 18th letter of the Greek alphabet.
SIGMA () Software Industrialized Generator and Maintenance Aids system (MITI).
Compare: Summation
Summation (n.) 總和；【律】（裁判前）法庭辯論的總結；【心】累積作用，積合效應 In mathematics, summation (denoted with an enlarged capital Greek sigma symbol Σ正是σ的大寫 }) is the addition of a sequence of numbers; the result is their sum or total. If numbers are added sequentially from left to right, any intermediate result is a partial sum, prefix sum, or running total of the summation.
Sigmodont (n.) Any one of a tribe (Sigmodontes) of rodents which includes all the indigenous rats and mice of America. So called from the form of the ridges of enamel on the crowns of the worn molars. Also used adjectively.
Sigmoid (a.) Alt. of Sigmoidal.
Sigmoidal (a.) S形的；【解】乙狀結腸的；C形的 Curved in two directions, like the letter S, or the Greek [sigmat].
{Sigmoid flexure} (Anat.), The last curve of the colon before it terminates in the rectum. See Illust. under {Digestive}.
{Sigmoid valves}. (Anat.) See {Semilunar valves}, under {Semilunar}.
Sigmoidal (a.) Of or relating to the sigmoid flexure in the large intestine [syn: {sigmoid}, {sigmoidal}].
Sigmoidally (adv.) In a sigmoidal manner.
Sign (n.) [C] 記號，符號；標誌；招牌；標牌 That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof. Specifically:
Sign (n.) A remarkable event, considered by the ancients as indicating the will of some deity; a prodigy; an omen.
Sign (n.) An event considered by the Jews as indicating the divine will, or as manifesting an interposition of the divine power for some special end; a miracle; a wonder.
Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God. -- Rom. xv. 19.
It shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. -- Ex. iv. 8.
Sign (n.) Something serving to indicate the existence, or preserve the memory, of a thing; a token; a memorial; a monument.
What time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign. -- Num. xxvi. 10.
Sign (n.) Any symbol or emblem which prefigures, typifles, or represents, an idea; a type; hence, sometimes, a picture.
The holy symbols, or signs, are not barely significative; but what they represent is as certainly delivered to us as the symbols themselves. -- Brerewood.
Saint George of Merry England, the sign of victory. -- Spenser.
Sign (n.) A word or a character regarded as the outward manifestation of thought; as, words are the sign of ideas.
Sign (n.) A motion, an action, or a gesture by which a thought is expressed, or a command or a wish made known.
They made signs to his father, how he would have him called. -- Luke i. 62.
Sign (n.) Hence, one of the gestures of pantomime, or of a language of a signs such as those used by the North American Indians, or those used by the deaf and dumb.
Note: Educaters of the deaf distinguish between natural signs, which serve for communicating ideas, and methodical, or systematic, signs, adapted for the dictation, or the rendering, of written language, word by word; and thus the signs are to be distinguished from the manual alphabet, by which words are spelled on the fingers.
Sign (n.) A military emblem carried on a banner or a standard. -- Milton.
Sign (n.) A lettered board, or other conspicuous notice, placed upon or before a building, room, shop, or office to advertise the business there transacted, or the name of the person or firm carrying it on; a publicly displayed token or notice.
The shops were, therefore, distinguished by painted signs, which gave a gay and grotesque aspect to the streets. -- Macaulay.
Sign (n.) (Astron.) The twelfth part of the ecliptic or zodiac.
Note: The signs are reckoned from the point of intersection of the ecliptic and equator at the vernal equinox, and are named, respectively, Aries ([Aries]), Taurus ([Taurus]), Gemini (II), Cancer ([Cancer]), Leo ([Leo]), Virgo ([Virgo]), Libra ([Libra]), Scorpio ([Scorpio]), Sagittarius ([Sagittarius]), Capricornus ([Capricorn]), Aquarius ([Aquarius]), Pisces ([Pisces]). These names were originally the names of the constellations occupying severally the divisions of the zodiac, by which they are still retained; but, in consequence of the procession of the equinoxes, the signs have, in process of time, become separated about 30 degrees from these constellations, and each of the latter now lies in the sign next in advance, or to the east of the one which bears its name, as the constellation Aries in the sign Taurus, etc.
Sign (n.) (Alg.) A character indicating the relation of quantities, or an operation performed upon them; as, the sign + (plus); the sign -- (minus); the sign of division /, and the like.
Sign (n.) (Med.) An objective evidence of disease; that is, one appreciable by some one other than the patient.
Note: The terms symptom and and sign are often used synonymously; but they may be discriminated. A sign differs from a symptom in that the latter is perceived only by the patient himself. The term sign is often further restricted to the purely local evidences of disease afforded by direct examination of the organs involved, as distinguished from those evidence of general disturbance afforded by observation of the temperature, pulse, etc. In this sense it is often called physical sign.
Sign (n.) (Mus.) Any character, as a flat, sharp, dot, etc.
Sign (n.) (Theol.) That which, being external, stands for, or signifies, something internal or spiritual; -- a term used in the Church of England in speaking of an ordinance considered with reference to that which it represents.
An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace. -- Bk. of Common Prayer.
Note: See the Table of Arbitrary Signs, p. 1924.
Sign manual. (Eng. Law) The royal signature superscribed at the top of bills of grants and letter patent, which are then sealed with the privy signet or great seal, as the case may be, to complete their validity.
Sign manual. The signature of one's name in one's own handwriting. -- Craig. Tomlins. Wharton.
Syn: Token; mark; note; symptom; indication; signal; symbol; type; omen; prognostic; presage; manifestation. See Emblem.
Signed (imp. & p. p.) of Sign.
Signing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sign.
Sign (v. t.) 簽（名）；寫下；簽名於，簽署 To represent by a sign; to make known in a typical or emblematic manner, in distinction from speech; to signify.
I signed to Browne to make his retreat. -- Sir W. Scott.
Sign (v. t.) To make a sign upon; to mark with a sign.
We receive this child into the congregation of Christ's flock, and do sign him with the sign of the cross. -- Bk. of Com Prayer.
Sign (v. t.) To affix a signature to; to ratify by hand or seal; to subscribe in one's own handwriting.
Inquire the Jew's house out, give him this deed, And let him sign it. -- Shak.
Sign (v. t.) To assign or convey formally; -- used with away.
Sign (v. t.) To mark; to make distinguishable. -- Shak.
Sign (v. i.) 簽字，署名；簽約受僱用 [（+with）] To be a sign or omen. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Sign (v. i.) To make a sign or signal; to communicate directions or intelligence by signs.
Sign (v. i.) Especially: To communicate in sign language.
Sign (v. i.) To write one's name, esp. as a token of assent, responsibility, or obligation ; as, he signed in red ink.
Sign (a.) Used of the language of the deaf [syn: gestural, sign(a), signed, sign-language(a)].
Sign (n.) 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" [syn: sign, mark].
Sign (n.) A public display of a message; "he posted signs in all the shop windows".
Sign (n.) Any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message; "signals from the boat suddenly stopped" [syn: signal, signaling, sign].
Sign (n.) Structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted; "the highway was lined with signboards" [syn: signboard, sign].
Sign (n.) (Astrology) One of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided [syn: sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house].
Sign (n.) (Medicine) Any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease; "there were no signs of asphyxiation".
Sign (n.) Having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges); "he got the polarity of the battery reversed"; "charges of opposite sign" [syn: polarity, sign].
Sign (n.) An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; "he hoped it was an augury"; "it was a sign from God" [syn: augury, sign, foretoken, preindication].
Sign (n.) A gesture that is part of a sign language.
Sign (n.) A fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified; "The bond between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary"-- de Saussure.
Sign (n.) A character indicating a relation between quantities; "don't forget the minus sign".
Sign (v.) Mark with one's signature; write one's name (on); "She signed the letter and sent it off"; "Please sign here" [syn: sign, subscribe].
Sign (v.) Approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation; "All parties ratified the peace treaty"; "Have you signed your contract yet?" [syn: sign, ratify].
Sign (v.) Be engaged by a written agreement; "He signed to play the casino on Dec. 18"; "The soprano signed to sing the new opera."
Sign (v.) Engage by written agreement; "They signed two new pitchers for the next season" [syn: sign, contract, sign on, sign up].
Sign (v.) Communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs; "He signed his disapproval with a dismissive hand gesture"; "The diner signaled the waiters to bring the menu" [syn: sign, signal, signalize, signalise].
Sign (v.) Place signs, as along a road; "sign an intersection"; "This road has been signed."
Sign (v.) Communicate in sign language; "I don't know how to sign, so I could not communicate with my deaf cousin."
Sign (v.) Make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate [syn: bless, sign].
Sign, () contracts, evidence. A token of anything; a note or token given without words.
Sign, () Contracts are express or implied. The express are manifested viva voce, or by writing; the implied are shown by silence, by acts, or by signs.
Sign, () Among all nations find and at all times, certain signs have been considered as proof of assent or dissent; for example, the nodding of the head, and the shaking of hands; 2 Bl. Com. 448; 6 Toull. D. 33; Heinnec., Antiq. lib. 3, t. 23, n. 19; silence and inaction, facts and signs are sometimes very strong evidence of cool reflection, when following a question. I ask you to lend me one hundred dollars, without saying a word you put your hand in your pocket, and deliver me the money. I go into a hotel and I ask the landlord if he can accommodate me and take care of my trunk; without speaking he takes it out of my hands and sends it into his chamber. By this act he doubtless becomes responsible to me as a bailee. At the expiration of a lease, the tenant remains in possession, without any objection from the landlord; this may be fairly interpreted as a sign of a consent that the lease shall be renewed. 13 Serg. & Rawle, 60.
Sign, () The learned author of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in his 44th chapter, remarks, "Among savage nations, the want of letters is imperfectly supplied by the use of visible signs, which awaken attention, and perpetuate the remembrance of any public or private transaction. The jurisprudence of the first Romans exhibited the scenes of a pantomime; the words were adapted to the gestures, and the slightest error or neglect in the forms of proceeding was sufficient to annul the substance of the fairest claim. The communion of the marriage-life was denoted by the necessary elements of fire and water: and the divorced wife resigned, the bunch of keys, by the delivery of which she had been invested with the government of the family. The manumission of a son, or a slave, was performed by turning him round with a gentle blow on the cheek: a work was prohibited by the casting of a stone; prescription was interrupted by the breaking of a branch; the clenched fist was the symbol of a pledge or deposits; the right hand was the gift of faith and confidence. The indenture of covenants was a broken straw; weights and, scales were introduced into every payment, and the heir who accepted a testament, was sometimes obliged to snap his fingers, to cast away his garments, and to leap and dance with real or affected transport. If a citizen pursued any stolen goods into a neighbor's house, he concealed his nakedness with a linen towel, and hid his. face with a mask or basin, lest he should encounter the eyes of a virgin or a matron. In a civil action, the plaintiff touched the ear of his witness seized his reluctant adversary by the neck and implored, in solemn lamentation, the aid of his fellow citizens. The two competitors grasped each other's hand, as if they stood prepared for combat before the tribunal of the praetor: he commanded them to produce the object of the dispute; they went, they returned with measured steps, and a clod of earth was cast at his feet to represent the field for which they contended. This occult science of the words and actions of law, was the inheritance of the pontiffs and patricians. Like the Chaldean astrologers, they announced to their clients the days of business and repose; these important trifles wore interwoven with the religion of Numa; and, after the publication of the Twelve Tables, the Roman people were still enslaved by the ignorance of judicial proceedings. The treachery of some plebeian officers at length revealed the profitable mystery: in a more enlightened age, the legal actions were derided and observed; and the same antiquity which sanctified the practice, obliterated the use and meaning, of this primitive language."
SIGN, () measures. In angular measures, a sign is equal to thirty degrees. Vide Measure.
Sign, () mer. law. A board, tin or other substance, on which is painted the name and business of a merchant or tradesman.
Sign, () Every man has a right to adopt such a sign as he may please to select, but he has no right to use another's name, without his consent. See Dall. Dict. mot Propriete Industrielle, and the article Trade marks.
To Sign. () To write one's name to an instrument of writing in order to give the effect intended; the name thus written is called a signature.
To Sign. () The signature is usually made at the bottom of the instrument but in wills it has been held that when a testator commenced his will With these words;, "I, A B, make this my will," it was a sufficient signing. 3 Lev. 1; and vide Rob. on Wills, 122 1 Will. on Wills, 49, 50; Chit. Cont. 212 Newl. Contr. 173; Sugd. Vend. 71; 2 Stark. Ev. 605, 613; Rob. on Fr. 121; but this decision is said to be absurd. 1 Bro. Civ. Law, 278, n. 16. Vide Merl. Repert. mot Signature, for a history of the origin, of signatures; and also 4 Cruise, Dig. h.t. 32, c. 2, s. 73, et seq.; see, generally, 8 Toull. n. 94-96; 1 Dall. 64; 5 Whart. R. 386; 2 B. & P 238; 2 M. & S. 286.
To Sign. () To sign a judgment, is to enter a judgment for want of something which was required to be done; as, for example, in the English practice, if he who is bound to give oyer does not give it within the time required, in such cases, the adverse party may sign judgment against him. 2 T. R. 40; Com. Dig. Pleader, P 1; Barnes, 245.
Signable (a.) Suitable to be signed; requiring signature; as, a legal document signable by a particular person.
Signal (n.) [C] 信號；暗號 [+to-v] [+that]；信號器；交通指示燈；【鐵】信號機A sign made for the purpose of giving notice to a person of some occurence, command, or danger; also, a sign, event, or watchword, which has been agreed upon as the occasion of concerted action.
All obeyed The wonted signal and superior voice Of this great potentate. -- Milton.
Signal (n.) A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign; anything taken as evidence of some process.
The weary sun . . . Gives signal of a goodly day to-morrow. -- Shak.
There was not the least signal of the calamity to be seen. -- De Foc.
Signal (n.) Hence: (Electronics) A measureable electrical quantity, such as voltage or current, that conveys information by varying in magnitude over time; as, the signals from the strongest commercial radio stations can be received over hundreds of miles. Signal to noise ratio
Signal (a.) 作為信號的 [B]；顯著的，非凡的 Noticeable; distinguished from what is ordinary; eminent; remarkable; memorable; as, a signal exploit; a signal service; a signal act of benevolence.
As signal now in low, dejected state As erst in highest, behold him where he lies. -- Milton.
Signal (a.) Of or pertaining to signals, or the use of signals in conveying information; as, a signal flag or officer.
The signal service, A bureau of the government (in the United States connected with the War Department) organized to collect from the whole country simultaneous raports of local meteorological conditions, upon comparison of which at the central office, predictions concerning the weather are telegraphed to various sections, where they are made known by signals publicly displayed.
Signal station, The place where a signal is displayed; specifically, an observation office of the signal service.
Syn: Eminent; remarkable; memorable; extraordinary; notable; conspicuous.
Signal (a.) Notably out of the ordinary; "the year saw one signal triumph for the Labour party".
Signal (n.) Any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message; "signals from the boat suddenly stopped" [syn: signal, signaling, sign].
Signal (n.) Any incitement to action; "he awaited the signal to start"; "the victory was a signal for wild celebration".
Signal (n.) An electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength) whose modulation represents coded information about the source from which it comes.
Signal (v.) (v. t.) 用信號發出；標誌；用信號通知，以動作向……示意 [O2] [+that] (v. i.) 發信號，打信號 [（+to/ for）] Communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs; "He signed his disapproval with a dismissive hand gesture"; "The diner signaled the waiters to bring the menu" [syn: sign, signal, signalize, signalise].
Signal (v.) Be a signal for or a symptom of; "These symptoms indicate a serious illness"; "Her behavior points to a severe neurosis"; "The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued" [syn: bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal].
Signal, () A synchronous language by Le Guernic et al of INRIA.
["SIGNAL - A Data Flow-Oriented Language for Signal Processing," P. le Guernic, IEEE Trans Acoustics Speech & Signal Proc, ASSP-34(2):362-1986-04-374]. (1996-12-10)
Signal, () A predefined message sent between two Unix processes or from the kernel to a process. Signals communicate the occurrence of unexpected external events such as the forced termination of a process by the user. Each signal has a unique number associated with it and each process has a signal handler set for each signal. Signals can be sent using the kill system call. (1996-12-10)
Signaled (imp. & p. p.) or Signalled of Signal.
Signaling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Signal.
Signalling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Signal.
Signal (v. t.) To communicate by signals; as, to signal orders.
Signal (v. t.) To notify by a signals; to make a signal or signals to; as, to signal a fleet to anchor. -- M. Arnold.
Signalist (n.) One who makes signals; one who communicates intelligence by means of signals.
Signality (n.) The quality or state of being signal or remarkable. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Signalized (imp. & p. p.) of Signalize.
Signalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Signalize.
Signalize (v. t.) To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.
It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. -- Burke.
Signalize (v. t.) To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship signalizes its consort.
Signalize (v. t.) To indicate the existence, presence, or fact of, by a signal; as, to signalize the arrival of a steamer.
Signalize (v.) Provide with traffic signals; "signalize a busy intersection" [syn: signalize, signalise].
Signalize (v.) Communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs; "He signed his disapproval with a dismissive hand gesture"; "The diner signaled the waiters to bring the menu" [syn: sign, signal, signalize, signalise].
Signalize (v.) Point out carefully and clearly [syn: signalize, signalise, point out, call attention].
Signalize (v.) Make conspicuous or noteworthy [syn: signalize, signalise, distinguish].
Signalling (n.) (or Signaling) (I n British) 發信號；振鈴機 The action of generating or transmitting signals.
Signally (adv.) In a signal manner; eminently.
Signally (adv.) As a signal; "a term that is used signally rather than symbolically".
Signally (adv.) In a signal manner; "signally inappropriate methods" [syn: signally, unmistakably, remarkably].