Pronunciation Noun
signature (plural signatures)
A person's name, written by that person, used as identification or to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract. - 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619 ↗:
- 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 signature, however, that was different.
- An act of signing one's name; an act of producing a signature.
- 1977, Illinois Information Service, Press Summary - Illinois Information Service, page 4287:
- 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.
- 2011, Winifred Holtby, The Crowded Street, Virago (ISBN 9780748130917):
- [She fought with herself] during the whole evening, during supper, during her signature of unintelligible papers at her father's desk, when he told her gruffly that she would now have an income of £350 a year minus income tax, which would return to her in some mysterious way ...
- 1977, Illinois Information Service, Press Summary - Illinois Information Service, page 4287:
- (medicine) The part of a doctor’s prescription containing directions for the patient.
- (music) Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo, composed of the key signature and the time signature.
- (printing) A group of four (or a multiple of four) sheets printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book.
- (computing) A pattern used for matching the identity of a virus, the parameter types of a method, etc.
- (cryptography) Data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source.
- (figurative) A mark or sign of implication.
- the natural and indelible signature of God, stamped on the human soul
- 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme, Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865,
- A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was guessing and interpreting, not observing or demonstrating.
- A dish that is characteristic of a particular chef.
- 2000, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Frommer's Rome 2001 (page 97)
- A great beginning is the goose-liver terrine with truffles, one of the chef's signatures.
- 2000, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Frommer's Rome 2001 (page 97)
- (mathematics) A tuple specifying the sign of coefficients in any diagonal form of a quadratic form.
- (medicine, obsolete) 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.
- (internet) Text (or images, etc.) appended to a user's emails, newsgroup posts, forum posts, etc. as a way of adding a personal touch. Email signatures often include extended contact information. Forum signatures often serve as a way for a user to express themselves (song lyrics, art, etc.).
- Synonyms: sig, siggy
- Your signature must not exceed three lines.
- Your signature must not exceed 600 pixels.
- forum signature generator
- French: signature
- German: Unterschrift
- Italian: firma
- Portuguese: firma, assinatura
- Russian: по́дпись
- Spanish: firma
- French: signature
- French: signature
- French: signature
- French: signature
signature (not comparable)
- Distinctive, characteristic, indicative of identity.
- Rabbit in mustard sauce is my signature dish.
- The signature route of the airline is its daily flight between Buenos Aires and Madrid.
- 2001, Lawrence J. Vale, Sam Bass Warner, Imaging the city: continuing struggles and new directions,
- Consider Las Fallas of Valencia, Spain, arguably the most signature of signature ephemera.
- 2005, Paul Duchscherer, Linda Svendsen, Beyond the bungalow: grand homes in the arts & crafts tradition,
- Considered the most signature effect of the Tudor Revival style, half-timbering derived its distinctive […] .
- 2005, Brett Dawson, Tales from the 2004-05 Fighting Illini,
- But it was perhaps the most signature shot Williams ever made in an Illinois uniform, a bullying basket in which he used his power to pound Stoudamire, […] .
- 2005, CBS News website, Paul Winchell Dead At Age 82 ↗,
- He credited his wife, who is British, for giving him the inspiration for Tigger’s signature phrase: TTFN. TA-TA for now.
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