Word Finder - signs

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(sometimes also used uncountably) A visible indication.

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I gave them a thumbs-up sign.

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Physical evidence left by an animal.

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The hunters found deer sign at the end of the trail.

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A clearly visible object, generally flat, bearing a short message in words or pictures.

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I missed the sign at the corner so I took the wrong turn.

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A wonder; miracle; prodigy.

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An astrological sign.

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Your sign is Taurus? That's no surprise.

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Positive or negative polarity, as denoted by the + or - sign.

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I got the magnitude right, but the sign was wrong.

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A specific gesture or motion used to communicate by those with speaking or hearing difficulties; now specifically, a linguistic unit in sign language equivalent to word in spoken languages.

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Sign language in general.

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Sorry, I don't know sign very well.

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An omen.

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"It's a sign of the end of the world," the doom prophet said.

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A property of the body that indicates a disease and, unlike a symptom, is unlikely to be noticed by the patient.

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A military emblem carried on a banner or standard.

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To make a mark

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To make the sign of the cross

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To indicate

The distant sky showed signs of growing lighter.

Why do I need signs if I'm running unopposed?

They sat, waiting for the girl to show signs of life.

Short, dark hair framed a face with plain features that showed the signs of a lifetime of battle.

His eyes were dark and warm like Bianca's, his frame just over six feet and still lanky, though he showed signs of starting to fill out.

The small kitchen showed signs of its past life, before the addition of a modern sink and electric stove.

How did they not have emotions when she saw signs of them?

For the book carries within itself signs of early date.

His eyes were wiser, his face firmer with few signs of the troubled youth she remembered.

We'll be watching for signs of trauma.

I've been there twice to check for signs of vamp surveillance.

The mansion was quiet again, the signs of activity from earlier gone.

Let the old guy and his lady friends paint up some signs.

Joseph asked Fred for a marker and cardboard and began making "No Trespassing" signs, signifying he planned a visit to the mine later.

Gabriel just had to watch for the signs.

As if it were no particular problem, he said they had lost vital signs in flight a couple times.

It was cold, sandy – and completely void of any other signs of life for miles.

Only the living room showed signs of any activity.

She frowned, seeking signs he'd had someone over.

About 1395 this channel began to show signs of silting up, and during the next hundred years the process proved rapid.

The excavation was wider here and Dean could see signs of some earlier passage in the mud at the edge.

There were no signs of violence on the mate of the Dark One.

Did you await the signs?

She heard no signs of war but saw the distant night sky light up with orange and red flashes.

She crept around the bed and leaned on it gingerly, watching for signs of him waking.

He looked for signs anyone had walked through the brush and branches, pausing at intervals to squat and look at his surroundings from a different angle.

There are signs when Death is in her fortress.  I might be able to see the trees in their defensive positions from here.

The bag was an expensive, down-filled model, and like everything else, showed little if any signs of wear.

She studied him closely, as if looking for signs of the man he'd been the last time she saw him.

All signs of the palace were swept away, replaced by neat lines of apple trees that ran all the way to the beach beyond.

The Black God didn't give off any of the signs she knew would mean he was lying.

Jenn looked around for signs of a trap.

Sirian edged closer, his wise gaze and silvering hair the only signs of aging on his otherwise lean frame.

She's shown the signs far earlier than any warlord.

She'll need to see a doctor in a couple of days for follow up shots, and you need to watch the bite wounds for signs of an infection.

She opened her eyes to see the floor was wet, marked by yellow signs.

Xander saw the signs then, the red on her face and the slight tremble of her hands.

Her face was flushing again, and he saw the signs she wasn't as unaffected by him as he first thought.

She couldn't see any signs that the fangs were a prosthetic.

When she ducked out for lunch at noon, the line showed no signs of decreasing in size.

Her husband, though he afterwards deteriorated, seems at that time to have been neither better nor worse than the Berrichon squires around him, and the first years of her married life, during which her son Maurice and her daughter Solange were born, except for lovers' quarrels, were passed in peace and quietness, though signs were not wanting of the coming storm.

Lava streams and other signs of volcanic action abound, but there has been no igneous activity since the Spaniards took possession.

There are signs of trade with Etruria as early as the 7th century B.C. The Carthaginians made it into an important grainproducing centre; and the Romans set foot in the island more than once during the First Punic War.

He signalized his accession by putting to death his brothers and nephews; and gave early proof of resolution by boldly cutting down before their troops two officers who showed signs of insubordination.

President Celman underrated the strength of the new opposition, and relied upon his armed forces promptly to suppress any signs of open hostility.

But as the captain of the " Endeavour " ordered out the pinnace and prepared to land, the natives threw off their nonchalance; for on the boat approaching the shore, two men, each armed with a bundle of spears, presented themselves on a projecting rock and made threatening signs to the strangers.

The approach of the crisis was heralded by many signs.

One of the oldest and most widespread methods of divining the future, both among primitive people and among several of the civilizations of antiquity, was the reading of omens in the signs noted on the liver of the animal offered as a sacrifice to some deity.

If, therefore, one understood the signs noted on a particular liver, one entered, as it were, into the mind - as one of the manifestations of soul-life of the deity who had assimilated the being of the animal to his own being.

Thus we have a collection of the signs noted during the career of Sargon I.