Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To make remarkable or conspicuous: a life signalized by high accomplishments.
- v. To point out particularly.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make signal; render conspicuously noteworthy; distinguish in a special or exceptional manner: used of a person, reflexively, or of his actions, directly or indirectly: as, to signalize one's self by great deeds or great crimes; to signalize one's administration by reformatory zeal.
- To indicate or point out distinctly; make special note or mention of; specialize.
- To signal; make signals to; indicate by a signal.
- To make signals; hold communication by signals.
- Also spelled signalise.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common.
- v. transitive To communicate with by means of a signal.
- v. To make something noticeable, different, remarkable or conspicuous, especially by gesticulation.
- v. nonstandard, transitive To signal; to indicate the existence, presence, or fact of, by a signal.
- v. nonstandard To install a traffic signal at an intersection that is currently regulated by stop signs.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.
- v. To communicate with by means of a signal.
- v. To indicate the existence, presence, or fact of, by a signal.
WordNet 3.0
- v. provide with traffic signals
- v. point out carefully and clearly
- v. make conspicuous or noteworthy
- v. communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs
Etymologies
- From signal + -ize. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Potlatch means "a giving," and John Fox's intention was to signalize his marriage with Lit-lit by a potlatch as generous as she was good - looking.”
“[2] I beg you to accept Mrs B — s acknowledgements for hers and all favours [3] — — Your Eagle is a noble fellow and no doubt could, over a joint of meat, signalize himself in”
“For him the “function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them in relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.””
“Fox holds a potlatch to signalize his marriage to Lit-Lit and she, "tearfully shy and frightened, is bedecked by her husband with a new calico dress, splendidly beaded mocassins, a gorgeous silk handkerchief over her raven hair, a purple scarf about her throat, brass earrings and finger-rings, and a whole pint of pinchbeck jewelry, including a Waterbury watch.”
“I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .”
“It could have been put there to signalize (for this is quite early in Fellowship, when the hobbits are still in the Shire) that this part of the Red Book was written by Bilbo, a less truthful and more florid narrator than Frodo.”
““A crown of roses! to signalize a double conquest,” cried Bixiou, glancing at Coralie.”
“Nay, they are rather wont to signalize iniquity than to chase it away, and hence arises our indignation that honours so often fall to the most iniquitous of men.”
“I would imagine it will be necessary to signalize the intersection (s) and probably ultimately widen 250 through there.”
“The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts.”
Blaming Others First: Warmongering and the "Pseudo-environment" of Warped American Exceptionalism
“May Heaven signalize its vengeance, in the face of all the world, upon the most abandoned and profligate of men! —”
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