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单词 signifier
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signifier


sig·ni·fi·er

S0400750 (sĭg′nə-fī′ər)n.1. One that signifies.2. Linguistics A linguistic unit or pattern, such as a succession of speech sounds, written symbols, or gestures, that conveys meaning; a linguistic sign. The signifier of the concept "tree" is, in English, the string of speech sounds (t), (r), and (ē); in German, (b), (ou), and (m).
[Translation of French signifiant, present participle of signifier, to signify.]

sig•ni•fier

(ˈsɪg nəˌfaɪ ər)

n. 1. a person or thing that signifies. 2. Ling. a pattern of sense impressions, as a written symbol or series of sounds, that expresses a meaning. Compare signified. [1525–35]
Thesaurus
Noun1.signifier - the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached"descriptor, form, word formlinguistics - the scientific study of languageword - a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than onesingular, singular form - the form of a word that is used to denote a singletonghost word - a word form that has entered the language through the perpetuation of an errorroot word, stem, root, theme, radical, base - (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"etymon, root - a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processescitation form, entry word, main entry word - the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionaryabbreviation - a shortened form of a word or phraseacronym - a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name
Translations
σημαίνον
IdiomsSeesignify

Signifier


Signifier

 

the formal aspect of a linguistic sign. The signifier is inseparably linked to the other aspect of a sign, the signified. The signifier is an abstract unit of language that represents a class of entities—sometimes called signals—of the expression plane. Unlike the signal, which can transmit many concrete “messages,” a given signifier is such only in relation to a single signified.

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Synonyms for signifier

noun the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something

Synonyms

  • descriptor
  • form
  • word form

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  • citation form
  • entry word
  • main entry word
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