Signal

['sɪgn(ə)l] or ['sɪgnl]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message; 'signals from the boat suddenly stopped'.

(noun.) any incitement to action; 'he awaited the signal to start'; 'the victory was a signal for wild celebration'.

(noun.) an electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength) whose modulation represents coded information about the source from which it comes.

(adj.) notably out of the ordinary; 'the year saw one signal triumph for the Labour party' .

贝妮塔整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A sign made for the purpose of giving notice to a person of some occurence, command, or danger; also, a sign, event, or watchword, which has been agreed upon as the occasion of concerted action.

(n.) A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.

(a.) Noticeable; distinguished from what is ordinary; eminent; remarkable; memorable; as, a signal exploit; a signal service; a signal act of benevolence.

(a.) Of or pertaining to signals, or the use of signals in conveying information; as, a signal flag or officer.

(v. t.) To communicate by signals; as, to signal orders.

(v. t.) To notify by a signals; to make a signal or signals to; as, to signal a fleet to anchor.

整理:胡安妮塔

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Token, mark, indication, SIGN, beacon.

a. Eminent, memorable, extraordinary, remarkable, noted, conspicuous.

费利西亚編輯

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Eminent, conspicuous, remarkable, extraordinary, notable, memorable,illustrious, important, saline, distinguished

ANT:Ordinary, common, unnoticeable, mediocre, unmemorable, unimportant

伊娃手打

解釋/意思:

n. a sign for giving notice generally at a distance: token: the notice given: any initial impulse.—v.t. and v.i. to make signals to: to convey by signals:—pr.p. sig′nalling; pa.t. and pa.p. sig′nalled.—adj. having a sign: remarkable: notable: eminent.—ns. Sig′nal-book a book containing a system of signals; Sig′nal-box -cab′in &c. a small house in which railway-signals are worked: the alarm-box of a police or fire-alarm system; Sig′nal-code a code or system of arbitrary signals esp. at sea by flags or lights; Sig′nal-fire a fire used for a signal; Sig′nal-flag a flag used in signalling its colour shape markings and combinations indicating various significations; Sig′nal-gun a gun fired as a signal.—v.t. Sig′nalise to make signal or eminent: to signal.—ns. Sig′nal-lamp a lamp by which signals are made by glasses or slides of different colours &c.; Sig′nalling the means of transmitting intelligence to a greater or less distance by the agency of sight or hearing.—adv. Sig′nally.—ns. Sig′nalman one who makes signals and who interprets those made; Sig′nalment the act of communicating by signals: description by means of marks; Sig′nal-post a pole on which movable flags arms lights are displayed as signals; Sig′nal-ser′vice the department in the army occupied with signalling.

編輯:陌莉