Definitions for sign

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sign sign

Spelling: [sahyn]

IPA: /saɪn/

Sign is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in sign (gins).

Definitions for sign

noun

1. a token; indication.
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.:
5. a notice, bearing a name, direction, warning, or advertisement, that is displayed or posted for public view:
6. a trace; vestige:
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:
11. sign of the zodiac.
12. sign language (def 1).
13. Usually, signs. traces, as footprints, of a wild animal.
14. Mathematics. a plus sign or minus sign used as a symbol for indicating addition or subtraction. a plus sign or minus sign used as a symbol for indicating the positive or negative value of a quantity, as an integer. multiplication sign. division sign. a symbol, as or !, used to indicate a radical or factorial operation.

Verb phrases

1. sign away/over, to assign or dispose of by affixing one's signature to a document:
2. sign in, to record or authorize one's arrival (or departure) by signing a register. Also, sign out.
3. sign off, to withdraw, as from some responsibility or connection. to cease radio or television broadcasting, especially at the end of the day. Informal. to become silent: to indicate one's approval explicitly if not formally:
4. sign on, to employ; hire. to bind oneself to work, as by signing a contract: to start radio or television broadcasting, especially at the beginning of the day. Computers. log1 (def 17a).
5. sign up, to enlist, as in an organization or group; to register or subscribe:

verb (used with object)

1. to affix a signature to:
2. to write as a signature:
3. to engage by written agreement:
4. to mark with a sign, especially the sign of the cross.
5. to communicate by means of a sign; signal:
6. to convey (a message) in a sign language.
7. Obsolete. to direct or appoint by a sign.

verb (used without object)

1. to write one's signature, as a token of agreement, obligation, receipt, etc.:
2. to make a sign or signal:
3. to employ a sign language for communication.
4. to obligate oneself by signature:

Origin of sign

1175-1225; (noun) Middle English signe Old French Latin signum mark, sign, ensign, signal, image; (v.) Middle English signen to mark with a sign, especially the sign of the cross Old French s

Examples for sign

There was no sign of the body of Andrew Lanning among the rocks.

Straight to this sign Andrew walked and sat down at the table beneath it.

No sir, not one, and I can find no sign of the Triassic period.

If he did, it could be a sign that our politicians are ready to resume genuine policy-making across party lines.

It was hard not to take it as a sign, a personal comment on my own Jewish dating failings.

He had evinced not the least sign of any disposition even to criticise.

They are always suspended over a precipice, dangling by a slender thread that shows every sign of snapping.

President Harry Truman kept a sign on his desk that read: “The Buck Stops Here.”

It proved to be a sign some twenty feet high and a whole block long.

He refused to sign the Constitution, for good reasons and bad.