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Definition of Signalize
1. Verb. Provide with traffic signals. "Signalize a busy intersection"
2. Verb. Communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs. "They signalize the information to them"; "The diner signaled the waiters to bring the menu"
Generic synonyms: Communicate, Intercommunicate
Specialized synonyms: Wigwag, Semaphore, Heliograph, Flag, Whistle
Derivative terms: Sign, Sign, Signer, Signing, Signal, Signaler, Signaling, Signaller, Signal
3. Verb. Point out carefully and clearly.
Generic synonyms: Designate, Indicate, Point, Show
Derivative terms: Signal
4. Verb. Make conspicuous or noteworthy.
Generic synonyms: Mark
Specialized synonyms: Singularise, Singularize
Derivative terms: Signalisation, Signal, Signalization
Definition of Signalize
1. v. t. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.
Definition of Signalize
1. Verb. (humorous or nonstandard) To make something noticeable, different, remarkable or conspicuous, especially by gesticulation. ¹
2. Verb. (nonstandard) To signal. ¹
3. Verb. (nonstandard) To install a traffic signal at an intersection that is currently regulated by stop signs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Signalize
1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Signalize
Literary usage of Signalize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737: By by William Stephens (1906)
"... Volunteers, taking to Arms at their own Expence, from Carolina and elsewhere,
in order to signalize themselves against the Enemies of their Country; ..."
2. The British History of Geoffrey of Monmouth: In Twelve Books by Geoffrey (1842)
"... signalize THEIR VALOUR IN THE FIGHT. The battle AND now in this latter encounter
the Britons were ..."
3. Biographia Borealis; Or Lives of Distinguished Northerns, by Hartley Coleridge (1833)
"... signalize their grief by wounding their bodies, which is performed with a
shark's tooth. Fragments of doth, stained with blood and tears are thrown upon ..."
4. A Consideration of the Sermon on the Mount by Daniel Harvey Hill (1858)
"Haman, to signalize his vengeance against Mordecai, prepared for him gf gallows
fifty cubits high. He was himself suspended from that lofty height, ..."
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