signature
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signature
- /ˈsɪɡ.nə.t͡ʃə/ UK
- /ˈsɪɡ.nɪ.t͡ʃə/ UK
- /ˈsɪɡ.nə.t͡ʃɚ/ Canada, US
- /ˈsɪɡ.nɪ.t͡ʃɚ/ Canada, US
- /ˈsɪɡ.nɪ.t͡ʃə/ Australia
- /ˈsəɡ.nə.t͡ʃə/ New Zealand
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French signature, or from Medieval Latin signātūra, future active periphrastic of verb signāre from signum (“sign”), + -tūra, feminine of -tūrus, future active periphrastic suffix. Displaced native Old English handseten (literally “hand setting”).
noun signatures
- A person's name, written by that person, used as identification or to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract. Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there. For his signat
- An act of signing one's name; an act of producing a signature. IN COMMENTS during signature of the bill yesterday during “Agriculture Day” at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, Thompson agreed with farmers that land needs to be protected.
- The part of a doctor’s prescription containing directions for the patient.
- Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo, composed of the key signature and the time signature.
- A group of four (or a multiple of four) sheets printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book.
- A pattern used for matching the identity of a virus, the parameter types of a method, etc.
- Data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source.
- A mark or sign of implication. the natural and indelible signature of God, which human souls […] are supposed to be stamped with
- A distinguishing feature or product. A great beginning is the goose-liver terrine with truffles, one of the chef's signatures.
- A tuple specifying the sign of coefficients in any diagonal form of a quadratic form.
- A resemblance between the external character 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.
- Text (or images, etc.) appended to a user's emails, newsgroup posts, forum posts, etc. as a way of adding a personal touch or including contact details. Your signature must not exceed three lines of text, or 600 pixels in height.
adjective more signature · most signature
- Distinctive, characteristic, indicative of identity. Rabbit in mustard sauce is my signature dish.
verb signatures · signaturing · signatured
- To sign with one's signature, to write one's signature on.
