signal
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Old French segnal, seignal or Medieval Latin signāle; noun use of the neuter of Late Latin signālis, from Latin signum; verb use from 1805, as a shortened from signalize (1650s). Doublet of signum and sign.
Inflected forms:
form: signals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: signall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: signals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: signaling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: signalling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: signaled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: signaled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: signalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: signalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: signall
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: signall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sequence of states representing an encoded message in a communication channel.
pos: noun
gloss: Any variation of a quantity or change in an entity over time that conveys information upon detection.
pos: noun
gloss: A sign made to give notice of some occurrence, command, or danger, or to indicate the start of a concerted action.
pos: noun
examples: All obeyed / The wonted signal and superior voice / Of this great potentate.
Banner-Repeater signals tend to be provided in locations where drivers receive insufficient warning of the main signal, thereby effectively increasing the sighting distance for the main signal.
gloss: An on-off light, semaphore, or other device used to give an indication to another person.
pos: noun
gloss: An on-off light, semaphore, or other device used to give an indication to another person.
pos: noun
gloss: An electromagnetic action, normally a voltage that is a function of time, that conveys the information of the radio or TV program or of communication with another party.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
TV
usually
examples: My mobile phone can't get a signal in the railway station.
gloss: An action, change or process done to convey information and thus reduce uncertainty.
pos: noun
gloss: A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.
pos: noun
examples: The weary sun […] / Gives signal of a goodly day to-morrow.
There was not the least signal of the calamity to be seen.
Did I get it wrong all along? / You were sending signals / You sent certain signals to me
gloss: Useful information, as opposed to noise.
pos: noun
gloss: A simple interprocess communication used to notify a process or thread of an occurrence.
pos: noun
tags: Unix
gloss: A signalling interaction between cells
pos: noun
gloss: To indicate; to convey or communicate by a signal.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: I signalled my acquiescence with a nod.
He whistled to signal that we should stop.
My arms wheeled frantically in the air as I tried to signal for help.
In order to accommodate the new platform 4 and the reversibly signalled slow line, a deep cutting had to be cut back and held up in places with a concrete retaining wall.
I signaled for our waiter and ordered two Glenlivets, the only single malt they had behind the bar.
It is the latest step towards an airline-style advance booking-only system, which rail users have denounced as signalling the end of affordable, immediate travel.
The break with tradition that Francis, who has died aged 88 after suffering from double pneumonia, represented even managed to trump the shock value of the resignation of Benedict, who was the first pope for 600 years to take that option rather than die in office. Immediately, Bergoglio signalled unambiguously that he intended to be a different kind of pope, one for the 21st century.
gloss: To communicate with (a person or system) by a signal.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Seeing the flames, he ran to the control room and signalled headquarters.
gloss: Standing above others in rank, importance, or achievement.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a signal exploit; a signal success; a signal act of benevolence
As ſignal now in low dejected ſtate, / As earſt in higheſt, behold him where he lies.
But, setting this view aside, dishonorable would it be in the South were she willing to abandon to shame the memory of brave men who with signal personal disinterestedness warred in her behalf, though from motives, as we believe, so deplorably astray.
Antonyms: noise
Related words: signature
signet
tocsin
Derived words: countersignal
foresignal
hand-signal
immunosignal
missignal
oversignal
phosphosignal
resignal
signalise
signalize
signaller
undersignal
unsignaled
unsignalled
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: семафо́р
roman: semafór
lang: Catalan
word: senyal
lang: Czech
word: signál
lang: Danish
word: signal
lang: Dutch
word: sein
lang: Finnish
word: opastin
lang: Finnish
word: merkinantolaite
lang: French
word: signal
lang: Galician
word: sinal
lang: German
word: Signal
lang: Hungarian
word: szemafor
lang: Hungarian
word: jelzőberendezés
lang: Italian
word: segnale
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: signal
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: signal
lang: Polish
word: sygnał
lang: Portuguese
word: sinal
lang: Romanian
word: semnal indicator
lang: Romanian
word: semnalizator
lang: Russian
word: семафо́р
roman: semafór
lang: Spanish
word: señal
lang: Swedish
word: signal