signify

IPA: sˈɪgnʌfaɪ

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).
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Examples of "signify" in Sentences

  • Where was Mount Calvary, and what does the name signify?
  • Canonical Books, it was but an easy step to make the term signify the
  • Alexandria makes the term signify in Syria, impudent, thieving, wicked.
  • Removing these monuments would signify is a clear aggression against Russian sentiment.
  • What these developments signify is that with respect to competition policy Canada has some considerable yardage to make up.
  • We are associates in business; business of a most important -- But what does that term signify to you, my precious ladybird?
  • 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").
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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