signify

英 ['s?gn?fa?] 美['s?ɡn?fa?]

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第三人稱單數(shù):?signifies;過去式:?signified;過去分詞:?signified;現(xiàn)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(zhí)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(lián)合國的旗幟，表明控制權已移交給聯(lián)合國了。

3. State ownership in itself does not signify collective control.: 國家所有本身并不意味集體控制.