Sign Definition–noun | 2. | any object, action, event, pattern, etc., that conveys a meaning. | | 3. | a conventional or arbitrary mark, figure, or symbol used as an abbreviation for the word or words it represents. | | 4. | a motion or gesture used to express or convey an idea, command, decision, etc.: Her nod was a sign that it was time to leave. | | 5. | a notice, bearing a name, direction, warning, or advertisement, that is displayed or posted for public view: a traffic sign; a store sign. | | 6. | a trace; vestige: There wasn't a sign of them. | | 7. | an arbitrary or conventional symbol used in musical notation to indicate tonality, tempo, etc. | | 8. | Medicine/Medical. the objective indications of a disease. | | 9. | any meaningful gestural unit belonging to a sign language. | | 10. | an omen; portent: a sign of approaching decadence. | | 13. | Usually, signs. traces, as footprints, of a wild animal. | | 14. | Mathematics. | a. | a plus sign or minus sign used as a symbol for indicating addition or subtraction. | | b. | a plus sign or minus sign used as a symbol for indicating the positive or negative value of a quantity, as an integer. | | e. | a symbol, as  or !, used to indicate a radical or factorial operation. | | –verb (used with object) | 15. | to affix a signature to: to sign a letter. | | 16. | to write as a signature: to sign one's name. | | 17. | to engage by written agreement: to sign a new player. | | 18. | to mark with a sign, esp. the sign of the cross. | | 19. | to communicate by means of a sign; signal: He signed his wish to leave. | | 20. | to convey (a message) in a sign language. | | 21. | Obsolete. to direct or appoint by a sign. | –verb (used without object) | 22. | to write one's signature, as a token of agreement, obligation, receipt, etc.: to sign for a package. | | 23. | to make a sign or signal: He signed to her to go away. | | 24. | to employ a sign language for communication. | | 25. | to obligate oneself by signature: He signed with another team for the next season. | —Verb phrases | 26. | sign away or over, to assign or dispose of by affixing one's signature to a document: She signed over her fortune to the church. | | 27. | sign in (or out) to record or authorize one's arrival (or departure) by signing a register. | | 28. | sign off, | a. | to withdraw, as from some responsibility or connection. | | b. | to cease radio or television broadcasting, esp. at the end of the day. | | c. | Informal. to become silent: He had exhausted conversation topics and signed off. | | d. | to indicate one's approval explicitly if not formally: The president is expected to sign off on the new agreement. | | | 29. | sign on, | b. | to bind oneself to work, as by signing a contract: He signed on as a pitcher with a major-league team. | | c. | to start radio or television broadcasting, esp. at the beginning of the day. | | d. | Computers. log1 (def. 17a). | | | 30. | sign up, to enlist, as in an organization or group; to register or subscribe: to sign up for the navy; to sign up for class. | |
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