signage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sign + -age.
Base: sign
Affixes: -age
Inflected forms:
form: signages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Signs, particularly those imparting commercial, directional, or road traffic information, taken collectively.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The signage at the airport is designed to point the way clearly to important locations.
Uniformity must be paramount in all signage and markings and is the only sound basis from which the job of traffic control can be started on any highway system.
Early involvement with a signage designer can often assist the architect and the owner to identify problems in directional or informational signage that may not have been considered.
Perhaps no aspect of library design is as vital to the success of library users as is effective signage, and certainly few other aspects are as perplexing for library planners. [...] Librarians often cannot rely on architects and interior designers to plan effective signage and must address this feature of library building design on their own.
If you try to push more and more traffic on to limited numbers of roads you require more signage, more safety measures, bus lanes, cycle lanes and so on.
[I]t is critical for today's advertisers to realize how different digital signage is today from traditional advertising, be it the difference between static signage and digital content on digital screens, on one hand, or the difference between a traditional broadcast TV ad and a digital signage ad, on the other.
This was the beginning of the spread across the network - in station signage and also posters - of a plain and pure typeface designed for the Underground by a refined and venerated calligrapher called Edward Johnston, [...]
Passing through Manningham, whether on foot or by car, there is one aspect of the streetscape that would signal that you are in an area that is, in British terms, 'multi-ethnic', and that is the signage above the shops. [...] [T]here is also specific signage signalling the Muslim nature of some of the properties. Signage, pointing out that this is a Muslim bookshop or that this is a halal butcher, indicates the religious identities that are the primary target of these shops.
The split in BBMC's signage output between rail and non-rail sectors is approximately 50/50. Recent major road contracts include provision of signage for the M20 motorway and A14 upgrade in Cambridgeshire.
This project has stripped away modern PVCu and aluminium shop fronts to reveal original or 1930s Art Deco work, with judicious repairs and replacements as necessary, plus stonework repairs and the restoration of traditional London Transport signage.
gloss: A sign, a signboard.
pos: noun
tags: India
countable
usually
examples: [T]he department is basically involved in providing basic amenities and the minimum requirements such as clearing trekking tracks, providing signages, basic accommodation or tents and so on.
External signages invite customers from different distances. Main signage makes appeal to customers approaching store from a distance of 170–180 feet, and the storefront signages makes impact from a distance of 60–70 feet.
From 'parking' to 'exit' or 'washrooms' to 'please pay here' – a signage is at every retail point.
We arrive at a place which has a signage with archaic lettering. It says "Twenty Thousand Leagues," and in simple lettering below, it says "Fine dining."
When he was old enough to read, he saw signages outside beautiful buildings: 'Indians and dogs not allowed.'
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