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Another word for signification

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Noun

  1. That which is signified by a word or expression

      1. An amount, as of goods, services, or money, considered to be a fair and suitable equivalent for something else; a fair price or return.
      2. Monetary or material worth:
      3. Worth in usefulness or importance to the possessor; utility or merit:
      1. The state or quality of being significant:
      2. A meaning that is expressed or implied:
      1. Any of the faculties by which stimuli from outside or inside the body are received and felt, as the faculties of hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste, and equilibrium.
      2. A perception or feeling produced by a stimulus; sensation:
      3. The faculties of sensation as means of providing physical gratification and pleasure.
      1. To have or present the often false appearance of being or intending; claim or profess:
      2. Meaning that is presented, intended, or implied; import.
      3. Intention; purpose:
      1. A usually short communication transmitted by words, signals, or other means from one person, station, or group to another:
      2. The substance of such a communication; the point or points conveyed:
      3. A statement made or read before a gathering:
      1. The denotation, referent, or idea associated with a word or phrase:
      2. Something that is conveyed or intended, especially by language; sense or significance:
      3. An interpreted goal, intent, or end:
      1. Something that is intended; an aim or purpose.
      2. The state of mind necessary for an act to constitute a crime.
      3. Firmly fixed; concentrated:
      1. To bring or carry in from an outside source, especially to bring in (goods or materials) from a foreign country for trade or sale.
      2. To receive (data) into one program from another.
      3. To carry or hold the meaning of; signify:
      1. The act of denoting; indication.
      2. Something, such as a sign or symbol, that denotes.
      3. Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol.
      1. The act or process of connoting.
      2. An idea or meaning suggested by or associated with a word or thing:
      3. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
      1. The usual or accepted meaning, as of a word or expression:
      2. Favorable reception; approval.
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  2. Something visible or evident that gives grounds for believing in the existence or presence of something else

      1. One who can give a firsthand account of something seen, heard, or experienced:
      2. One who is called on to testify before a court.
      3. One who is called on to be present at a transaction in order to attest to what takes place.
      1. Something serving as an indication, proof, or expression of something else; a sign:
      2. Something that signifies or evidences authority, validity, or identity:
      3. A specific instance of a phenomenon or a class of things, as of a linguistic feature in a sample of a person's speech, that can be isolated for study or analysis.
      1. An indication of a disorder or disease, especially a subjective one such as pain, nausea, or weakness.
      2. A characteristic sign or indication of the existence of something else:
      1. To bring down (the foot) forcibly.
      2. To bring the foot down onto (an object or surface) forcibly.
      3. To cause to be dislodged by stomping the feet:
      1. Something that suggests the presence or existence of a fact, condition, or quality:
      2. An act or gesture used to convey an idea, a desire, information, or a command:
      3. Sign language.
      1. A brief record, especially one written down to aid the memory:
      2. A comment or explanation, as on a passage in a text:
      3. A brief informal letter:
      1. A visible trace or impression, such as a line or spot:
      2. A name, logo, or other indicator used to indicate ownership, origin, or level of quality.
      3. A notch made in an animal's ear or hide to indicate ownership.
      1. The act of manifesting.
      2. The state of being manifested.
      3. An indication of the existence, reality, or presence of something:
      1. A pointer or an index.
      2. An instrument used to monitor the operation or condition of an engine, furnace, electrical network, reservoir, or other physical system; a meter or gauge.
      3. The needle, dial, or other registering device on such an instrument.
      1. The act of indicating:
      2. Something that serves to indicate; a sign:
      3. Something indicated as necessary or expedient:
      1. An alphabetized list of names, places, and subjects treated in a printed work, giving the page or pages on which each item is mentioned.
      2. A thumb index.
      3. A table, file, or catalog.
      1. A thing or set of things helpful in forming a conclusion or judgment:
      2. Something indicative; an indication or set of indications:
      3. The means by which an allegation may be proven, such as oral testimony, documents, or physical objects.
      1. A device or emblem worn as an insignia of rank, office, or membership in an organization.
      2. An emblem given as an award or honor.
      3. A characteristic mark or indicative trait:
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Another word for signification

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Sentence Examples

  • crocodiles), it seems hard to admit that the term may be thus diverted from its original signification, especially when such a change results in discarding the name expressly proposed by Brongniart to denote the association which has ever since been universally adopted either as an order, a sub-class or a class.

  • In the modern signification it is applied to the act of preparing, preserving and compounding medicines, according to the prescriptions of physicians.

  • The letters have the same signification as below.

  • The exact signification of this purely territorial name varied greatly at different times.

  • At first, indeed, the term was apparently confined to the regions of the central and southern districts, exclusive of Cisalpine Gaul and the whole tract north of the Apennines, and this continued to be the official or definite signification of the name down to the end of the republic. But the natural limits of Italy are so clearly marked that the name came to be generally employed as a geographical term at a much earlier period.

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