Word Finder - signatures

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A person's name, written by that person, used as identification or to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract.

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An act of signing one's name; an act of producing a signature.

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The part of a doctor’s prescription containing directions for the patient.

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Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo, composed of the key signature and the time signature.

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A group of four (or a multiple of four) sheets printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book.

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A pattern used for matching the identity of a virus, the parameter types of a method, etc.

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Data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source.

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A mark or sign of implication.

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A dish that is characteristic of a particular chef.

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A tuple specifying the sign of coefficients in any diagonal form of a quadratic form.

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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.

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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.).

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Your signature must not exceed 600 pixels.

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• sig
• siggy

She got loads of signatures for a huge petition.

They had been preceded by others under various signatures such as "Candor," "Father of Candor," "Anti-Sejanus," "Lucius," "Nemesis," which have all been attributed, some of them certainly in error, to one and the same hand.

If you're writing on fabric, make sure they're permanent markers, or all those signatures will go down the drain on washday.

Sporting union jacks and team uniform, team GBR mingled with all other teams swapping t shirts and getting signatures.

Tom 's final song took as its starting point different and contrasted time signatures.

Verification of the authenticity and integrity of data does not necessarily prove the identity of the signatory who creates the electronic signatures.

In all cases, vouching documentation must be original and feature original signatures.

Taking wide-angle and fast precession, we have explored the resulting signatures and found which observational tracers are best to employ.

It's important to note that the reprint is really a copy of a previously-owned book, so it will have markings and signatures from that book.

These contactless readers do not require signatures for users.

Indiana, the state that has marketed the country's first soybean oil candles, desires to get enough signatures on a petition in order to move Indiana forward in ethanol and soybean production.

One of the signatures of Gymboree clothing is that they sell complete outfits, instead of just selling tops and bottoms.

Traditional music notation has time signatures, rests, holds, ties, etc. that inform the player about how the music relates to time.

Their sound has been labeled as math metal, meaning that they employ complex arrangements with involved time signatures.

A certificate of appreciation with multiple good will messages and signatures can keep everyone involved.

When couples select a DNA2Diamonds ring made from the carbon signatures in their hair, they are selecting a piece of jewelry uniquely their own through DNA and symbolic of their union in marriage.

Historic purses became the epitome of the requirement to contain these wealthy signatures of the age.

Advanced paranormal investigation groups usually include thermal imaging devices that detect heat signatures using a video-camera like device.

Signatures are not required, since the entire process is automatic and the cards never leave the customer's hands.

They may choose simply to add their contact information and signatures to the document without making many -or even any-changes to what you have written.

The player with the most signatures wins a prize.

Signatures are required for delivered packages.

Their time signatures and synth work has been enormously influential on generations of synth and electronic musicians.

Collecting signatures also gives the party attendees something to do between food and games.

Students will be able to exchange signatures and share memories of the year, and many schools offer a seniors-only variation of a yearbook event to honor the soon-to-be graduates.

Include room for signatures and guiding questions, such as "Who was your favorite teacher?", to encourage guests to share their favorite moments from their schooldays.

Dog the Bounty Hunter had already been pulled off the airwaves, but thanks to support from big legal players and a petition of viewer signatures, the show was brought back with new episodes in mid 2008.

Watch out for signatures where all of the letters are the same size.

The company only accept orders from schools, organizations, and businesses with tax IDs and the appropriate signatures, so this won't be the ideal retailer for individuals.

Near the bottom is a list of fonts that resemble signatures of famous people during the Old English days.

Advertising - The most common way that free domain hosting sites recoup their expenses is through putting banner ads or text links on every page of your site, through the sidebar, or even through signatures on emails from your domain.

She sensed Jule, her father, and hundreds—no, thousands!—of tiny signatures surrounding them.

But while the majority of the deputies, were nominally in favor of the bill, the parliamentary committee reported against it, and public opinion was so hostile that an anti-divorce petition received 3,500,000 signatures, including not only those of professing Catholics, but of free-thinkers and Jews, who regarded divorce as unsuitable to Italian conditions.

Thirty-three bishops are included in the most authentic list of signatures, among them three from Britain, - York, London and "Colonia Londinensium" (probably a corruption of Lindensium, or Lincoln, rather than of Legionensium or Caerleon-on-Usk).

Signatures to documents of the period are rare; seals served instead of signatures, because most of the nobles were unable to sign their names.

Arcana were often shown to be such by their physical properties, not only by such as heat, cold, &c., but by fortuitous resemblances to certain parts of the body; thus arose the famous doctrine of "signatures," or signs indicating the virtues and uses of natural objects, which was afterwards developed into great complexity.

But in fact the glyptic artists of Tokyo, Osaka and KiOto, though they now devote their chisels chiefly to works of more importance than the netsuke, are in no sense inferior to their predecessors of feudal days, and many beautiful netsuke bearing their signatures are in existence.

To promote the ends he had in view he suggested non-importation, instituted the Boston committees of correspondence, urged that a Continental Congress be called, sought out and introduced into public service such allies as John Hancock, Joseph Warren and Josiah Quincy, and wrote a vast number of articles for the newspapers, especially the Boston Gazette, over a multitude of signatures.

This system of divination has the charm of simplicity and definiteness, as an application of the "doctrine of signatures" which formed so extensive an element in the occult writings of the past six centuries.

His wealth and power were enlarged by gift of the parliament which met on the 14th and rose on the 19th of April - a date made notable by the subsequent supper at Ainslie's tavern, where Bothwell obtained the signatures of its leading members to a document affirming his innocence, and pledging the subscribers to maintain it against all challengers, to stand by him in all his quarrels and finally to promote by all means in their power the marriage by which they recommended the queen to reward his services and benefit the country.

Additional matter intended to suit the document to the special circumstances of the time was added, and the covenant was adopted and signed by a large gathering in Greyfriars' churchyard, Edinburgh, on the 28th of February 1638, after which copies were sent throughout the country for additional signatures.

He was summoned to St Andrews and examined before the king, but neither threats nor promises could make him deliver up the roll of signatures to the Remonstrance.

The charter provides for a referendum vote on franchises, which may be ordered by the council or by petition of the people, the signatures of 20% of the registered voters being sufficient to force such election.

The issue of the declaration without the signatures of the representatives of Great Britain and France proclaimed the disunion of the alliance, within which - to use Lord Stewart's words - there existed "a triple understanding which bound the parties to carry forward their own views in spite of any difference of opinion between them and the two great constitutional governments."

For eight years he canvassed for signatures to this address, but in spite of considerable support the strenuous opposition of the Jesuits and Dominicans deterred the clergy and nearly wrecked the scheme.

The monks of Fontenay le Comte bought some property (half an inn in the town), and among their signatures to the deed of purchase is that of Francois Rabelais.

It was found that, instead of containing nearly 6,000,000 signatures, as its originators had boasted, less than 2,000,000 names were attached to it.

They are in fact suspended in a state of vapour between our eyes and the photosphere, the dazzling prismatic radiance of which they, to a minute extent, intercept, thus writing their signatures on the coloured scroll of dispersed sunshine.

She sensed Jule, her father, and hundreds—no, thousands!—of tiny signatures surrounding them.

This adds support for IPX in snort signatures, which is kinda cute.