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signalize


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Signalize  \Sig"nal*ize\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Signalized};  p. 
  pr  &  vb  n.  {Signalizing}.]  [From  {Signal},  a.] 
  1.  To  make  signal  or  eminent;  to  render  distinguished  from 
  what  is  common;  to  distinguish. 
 
  It  is  this  passion  which  drives  men  to  all  the  ways 
  we  see  in  use  of  signalizing  themselves.  --Burke. 
 
  2.  To  communicate  with  by  means  of  a  signal;  as  a  ship 
  signalizes  its  consort. 
 
  3.  To  indicate  the  existence,  presence,  or  fact  of  by  a 
  signal;  as  to  signalize  the  arrival  of  a  steamer. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  signalize 
  v  1:  provide  with  traffic  signals,  as  of  an  intersection 
  2:  converse  silently  and  non-verbally;  converse  in  sign 
  language;  "I  don't  know  how  to  sign,  so  I  could  not 
  communicate  with  my  deaf  cousin"  [syn:  {sign},  {signal}] 
  3:  point  out  carefully  and  clearly  [syn:  {point  out}] 
  4:  make  conspicuous  [syn:  {distinguish}] 




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