signify

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To create a sign out of something.
  2. To give (something) a meaning or an importance.
  3. To show one’s intentions with a sign etc.; to indicate, announce, or portend.
    — I’ll to the king; and signify to him / That thus I have resign’d my charge to you.
  4. To mean; to betoken.
    — Life’s […] a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.
  5. To make a difference; to matter (in negative or interrogative expressions).
    — To be but in the company of those we love, satisfies us: it does not signify whether we speak to ’em or not, whether we think on them or on indifferent things. To be near ’em is all.

词形变化

signifies present,singular,third-person signifying participle,present signified participle,past signified past

词汇关系

近义词
mean betoken import
衍生词
consignify foresignify missignify nonsignifying oversignify plurisignify plurisignifying resignify signifiable signifyin' signifyin(g) signifyingly unsignified unsignifying

词源

Inherited from Middle English signifien, from Old French signifier, from Latin significare.
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