英语词汇“sign”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

something serving to indicate the presence or existence of something

saw no sign of them

a presage or portent

signs of an early spring

something material or external that stands for or signifies something spiritual

objective evidence of plant or animal disease that usu causes no perceptible disability

a board or notice carrying advertising matter or giving a warning, a command, information, or direction, etc

a motion or gesture by which a thought, command, or wish is made known; a signal

a mark with a conventional meaning, e.g. in music or mathematics used to replace or supplement words

a meaningful unit of language, e.g. a word

a character, e.g. a flat or sharp, used in musical notation

a segno (musical repeat sign)

a character, e.g. (÷), indicating a mathematical operation

either of two characters (+) and (−) that form part of the symbol of a number and characterize it as positive or negative

a remarkable event indicating the will of a deity

any of the twelve divisions of the zodiac

[Middle English signe via early French signe from Latin signum mark, token, sign, image, seal]

to write a signature on (a document or work of art) as authorization or identification

to write (one's name) on a document, etc

(often + over) to assign (something) legally to another person with a signature

to engage or hire (somebody) by securing a signature on a contract of employment

to indicate or represent (something) by a sign

to make the sign of the cross on or over (something)

to place a sign on (something)

verb intrans

to write one's signature

to make a sign or signal

to use sign language

signed adj

signer noun

[Middle English signen via French from Latin signare to mark, sign, seal, from signum sign¹]