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Definition of Signalise

1. Verb. Provide with traffic signals. "Signalize a busy intersection"

2. Verb. Communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs. "They signalise the information to them"; "The diner signaled the waiters to bring the menu"

3. Verb. Point out carefully and clearly.

4. Verb. Make conspicuous or noteworthy.

Definition of Signalise

1. Verb. (alternative spelling of signalize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Signalise

1. [v -ISED, -ISING, -ISES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Signalise

signal recognition particle signal recognition particle receptor signal response coupling signal sequence signal transduction signal void signaled signaler signalers signalese

signaleses signaling signaling device signalings signalisation signalise (current term) signalised signalises signalising signalist

signalists signalities signality signalization signalizations signalize signalized signalizes signalizing signall

Literary usage of Signalise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"... the principal powers of Europe, as to the act by which the representatives of the Spanish people ought to signalise the opening of their deliberations. ..."

2. A Mandarin-Romanized Dictionary of Chinese: Including New Terms and Phrases by Donald MacGillivray (1921)
"... 818c a colour or standard; to signalise soldiers under a general (chiang* •great, very, ... signalise ..."

3. Speeches and Addresses in Parliament, on the Platform, and at the Bar, 1859 by Alexander Martin Sullivan (1882)
"... to-night, this honouring toast beyond the line drawn by the committee of this banquet, and, instead of honouring the men who signalise the genius of the ..."

4. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"many more like them, signalise Hazlitt, as the Notes in the Specimens of 1808 signalise Charles Lamb. Sometimes, when Hazlitt is writing on the poets, ..."

5. History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789 to by Archibald Alison (1870)
"... approached, and the patriots resolved to signalise it by a fete worthy of the birth of freedom in the greatest of the European states. ..."

6. Essays on the Principles of Morality, and on the Private and Political by Jonathan Dymond (1880)
"the listening soldier wants to signalise himself like the heroes who are ... fame and reap undying laurels :—How shall he signalise himself without a war, ..."

7. History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in M.DCC by Archibald Alison (1853)
"The 14th July, the anniversary of the taking of the Bastile, approached, and the patriots resolved to signalise it by a fête worthy of the birth of freedom ..."

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