Signature
['sɪgnətʃə] or ['sɪgnətʃɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book.
(noun.) your name written in your own handwriting.
(noun.) a melody used to identify a performer or a dance band or radio/tv program.
Typed by Eugenia--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal.
(v. t.) Especially, the name of any person, written with his own hand, employed to signify that the writing which precedes accords with his wishes or intentions; a sign manual; an autograph.
(v. t.) An outward mark by which internal characteristics were supposed to be indicated.
(v. t.) A resemblance between the external characters of a disease and those of some physical agent, for instance, that existing between the red skin of scarlet fever and a red cloth; -- supposed to indicate this agent in the treatment of the disease.
(v. t.) The designation of the key (when not C major, or its relative, A minor) by means of one or more sharps or flats at the beginning of the staff, immediately after the clef, affecting all notes of the same letter throughout the piece or movement. Each minor key has the same signature as its relative major.
(v. t.) A letter or figure placed at the bottom of the first page of each sheet of a book or pamphlet, as a direction to the binder in arranging and folding the sheets.
(v. t.) The printed sheet so marked, or the form from which it is printed; as, to reprint one or more signatures.
(v. t.) That part of a prescription which contains the directions to the patient. It is usually prefaced by S or Sig. (an abbreviation for the Latin signa, imperative of signare to sign or mark).
(v. t.) To mark with, or as with, a signature or signatures.
Checker: Mae
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Stamp, mark.[2]. Sign-manual.
Typed by Jed
Definition
n. a sign or mark: the name of a person written by himself: (mus.) the flats and sharps after the clef to show the key: a sheet after being folded the figure or letter at the foot of the page indicating such.—adj. Sig′nāte designate: bearing spots resembling letters.—ns. Signā′tion anything used as a sign an emblem; Sig′natory Sig′natary Sig′nitary one bound by signature to some agreement.—adj. having signed bound by signature.—Doctrine of signatures an inveterate belief in early medicine that plants and minerals bore certain symbolical marks which indicated the diseases for which nature had intended them as special remedies.
Typist: Rebecca
Examples
- With your property, you should never put down a signature for less. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The point about the signature is very suggestive--in fact, we may call it conclusive. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- We say (and with perfect truth) I wish I had Miss MacWhirter's signature to a cheque for five thousand pounds. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There the letter ended, without either date or signature. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Your mad temper lost the signature to the deed, lost the ready money, set Miss Halcombe writing to the lawyer for the first time. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Those lines you invited me to read are without signature. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The easier course plainly, was to renew the bill with a friend's signature. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was a letter of two pages, and she immediately looked at the signature. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was marked Private; it was addressed to me; and it had the Sergeant's signature in the corner. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It supplied Laura with a reason for objecting to the signature which was unanswerable, and which we could both of us understand. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I wish I had given him my signature, for your sake. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It bears the stamp of British court intrigue, and the signature of your king. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Sir Percival has altered his plans--the business of the signature is put off. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- There the extraordinary letter ended, without signature of any sort. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- At the end were the signatures of the high dignitaries who had signed it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- If only a few thousand were printed, these signatures could be collected together by hand, and then fed into the wire-stitching machine, also by hand. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If you choose to get up a requisition on the subject, I promise to head the list of signatures with my name. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Then it is necessary to print on separate presses the various sections, or signatures as they are called, which, when combined, will make up a complete magazine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Nor do I require bonds or signatures. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
Checker: Virgil