Signalize definition

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signalized signalizes signalizing
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To communicate with by means of a signal.

A ship signalizes its consort.

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To make remarkable or conspicuous.

A life signalized by high accomplishments.

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To point out particularly.
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To make remarkable or noteworthy.

A career signalized by great achievement.

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To make clearly known; draw attention to.

The cheers which signalized his arrival.

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To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common.
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(humorous or nonstandard) To make something noticeable, different, remarkable or conspicuous, especially by gesticulation.
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(nonstandard) To signal; to indicate the existence, presence, or fact of, by a signal.

To signalize the arrival of a steamer.

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(nonstandard) To install a traffic signal at an intersection that is currently regulated by stop signs.
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Origin of signalize

  • From signal +"Ž -ize.

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Signalize Sentence Examples

  • Of the artistic periodicals we may signalize the Art Journal (1849), Portfolio (1870), Magazine of Art (1878-1904), Studio (1893), Connoisseur (1901), and Burlington (1903).

  • Maine de Biran's first essays in philosophy were written avowedly from the point of view of Locke and Condillac, but even in them he was brought to signalize the essential fact on which his later speculation turns.

  • Near the end of the 9th century, however, the plundering expeditions which emanated from these three sources became so incessant and so widespread that we can signalize no part of west France as free from them, at the same time that the vikings wrought immense mischief in the Rhine country and in Burgundy.

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