signify的意思

signify

英 ['sɪgnɪfaɪ] 美 ['sɪɡnɪfaɪ]

近義詞	come 、 send 、 out 、 blurt 、 known 、 speak 、 impart 、 open 、 across 、 express 、 about 、 transmit 、 sign 、 announce 、 divulge 、 signal 、 bring 、 disclose 、 convey 、 make 、 lay 、 tell 、 communicate 、 pronounce 、 voice 、 on 、 flag 、 proclaim 、 with 、 wigwag 、 utter 、 reveal 、 breathe 、 pass 、 put 、 telegraph 、 semaphore 、 of

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第三人稱單數: signifies;過去式: signified;過去分詞: signified;現在分詞: signifying;

1、sign- + -ify.

signify 預示，表明，表達，表示

sign,標記，記號，-fy,使。引申諸相關詞義。

signify (v.): late 13c., "be a sign of, indicate, mean," from Old French signifier (12c.), from Latin significare "to make signs, show by signs, point out, express; mean, signify; foreshadow, portend," from significus (adj.), from signum "sign" (see sign (n.)) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious). Intransitive sense of "to be of importance" is attested from 1660s. Meaning "engage in mock-hostile banter" is American English black slang first recorded 1932.
...'signifying,' which in Harlemese means making a series of oblique remarks apparently addressed to no one in particular, but unmistakable in intention in such a close-knit circle. ["Down Beat," March 7, 1968]

1. The striped band round a policeman's sleeve is to signify that he is on duty.: 警察袖子上的袖標標明他正在執勤.

2. The UN flag was raised at the airport yesterday to signify that control had passed into its hands.: 昨天機場升起了聯合國的旗幟，表明控製權已移交給聯合國了。

3. State ownership in itself does not signify collective control.: 國家所有本身並不意味集體控製.