signature
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French signature, or from Medieval Latin signātūra, future active periphrastic of verb signāre from signum (“sign”), + -tūra, feminine of -tūrus, future active periphrastic suffix. Displaced native Old English handseten (literally “hand setting”).
Inflected forms:
form: signatures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more signature
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most signature
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: signatures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: signaturing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: signatured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: signatured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person's name, written by that person, used as identification or to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract.
pos: noun
examples: Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there. For his signature, however, that was different.
gloss: An act of signing one's name; an act of producing a signature.
pos: noun
examples: IN COMMENTS during signature of the bill yesterday during “Agriculture Day” at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, Thompson agreed with farmers that land needs to be protected.
[She ate with herself] during the whole evening, during supper, during her signature of unintelligible papers at her father's desk, when he told her gruffly that she would now have an income of £350 a year minus income tax, which would return to her in some mysterious way […]
gloss: The part of a doctor’s prescription containing directions for the patient.
pos: noun
gloss: Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo, composed of the key signature and the time signature.
pos: noun
gloss: A group of four (or a multiple of four) sheets printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book.
pos: noun
gloss: A pattern used for matching the identity of a virus, the parameter types of a method, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: Data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source.
pos: noun
gloss: A mark or sign of implication.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: the natural and indelible signature of God, which human souls […] are supposed to be stamped with
The TACOM Vehicle Signature Reduction program is concerned with reducing the noise signature detectability of military vehicles in combat.
A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was guessing and interpreting, not observing or demonstrating.
gloss: A distinguishing feature or product.
pos: noun
examples: A great beginning is the goose-liver terrine with truffles, one of the chef's signatures.
gloss: A tuple specifying the sign of coefficients in any diagonal form of a quadratic form.
pos: noun
gloss: A resemblance between the external character of a disease and those of some physical agent, for instance, that existing between the red skin of scarlet fever and a red cloth; supposed to indicate this agent in the treatment of the disease.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Text (or images, etc.) appended to a user's emails, newsgroup posts, forum posts, etc. as a way of adding a personal touch or including contact details.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: Your signature must not exceed three lines of text, or 600 pixels in height.
forum signature generator
gloss: Distinctive, characteristic, indicative of identity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: Rabbit in mustard sauce is my signature dish.
The signature route of the airline is its daily flight between Buenos Aires and Madrid.
Consider Las Fallas of Valencia, Spain, arguably the most signature of signature ephemera.
Considered the most signature effect of the Tudor Revival style, half-timbering derived its distinctive[…].
But it was perhaps the most signature shot Williams ever made in an Illinois uniform, a bullying basket in which he used his power to pound Stoudamire,[…].
He credited his wife, who is British, for giving him the inspiration for Tigger’s signature phrase: TTFN. TA-TA for now.
In its gallant effort to shun the mass-market fragrance industry for something more personal, Le Labo has, unwittingly, created the most ubiquitous scent in fashion; a signature scent that is so signature you can recognize it in every city in the world[…].
Restaurant staff were in the process of serving Le Caprice's signature dessert: frozen berries with a hot white chocolate sauce.
gloss: To sign with one's signature, to write one's signature on.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Related words: autograph
Derived words: blank signature
countersignature
cut signature
digital signature
electronic signature
e-signature
immunosignature
isotope signature
isotopic signature
key signature
multisignature
neurosignature
nonsignature
presignature
signatural
signature authority
signature-compatible
signatureless
signature song
signature strike
signature tune
signaturist
specimen signature
subsignature
technosignature
time signature
unsignatured
wet signature
Translations:
lang: French
word: signature