Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having a signature affixed: a signed document.
- adj. Of, relating to, or expressed in a sign language: a signed translation.
Wiktionary
- adj. mathematics, computer science Having both positive and negative varieties.
- adj. Having a signature, endorsed.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of sign.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having a handwritten signature
- adj. used of the language of the deaf
Examples
“And he signed it signed it gladly despite knowing, as he then said, that it would cost his party the South for a generation.”
Taking for Granted: Thoughts on America as Thanksgiving Approaches
“Each colorful beanie includes a label signed by the woman who made it.”
The Huffington Post: Catherine Moellering: Gift Guide: Purposeful Purchases
“The payment–$20 million–was borrowed as an advance against future Maverick earnings when the label signed a new five-year deal with Warner Bros.”
“I had changed my name the year after my sister did, reluctantly, giving up the name signed at the bottom of my paintings so I would be harder to find.”
“All of the officials involved in the leak of my name signed oaths when they joined the government to protect national security secrets.”
“He is publishing with a Son of a Bitch who will swindle him, & he may print that opinion if he chooses, with my name signed to it.”
“Hackers using an alias signed up to rent a server through Amazon's EC2 service and launched the attack from there, said the person, who requested anonymity because the information is confidential.”
“It's my husband's signature," she said referring to the name signed below that of Obama's mother in the spot for "signature of attendant.”
“In 2008, the label signed the Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz in Austria and released”
“She had planned to train for opera after she graduated, but when a boyfriend gave her demo tape to Universal the label signed her up.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘signed’.
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The Bindery
A list of bookbinding terms and phrases, for assembling new or repairing/reassembling old books.
perfect binding, animal glue, spine, textblock, polyvinyl acetate, double-fan adhesi..., board, backing, rounding, bone, book cloth, pasteboard and 270 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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Rare Books
Words used in the rare book trade (of which I was once a part). For more about how such books are put together, see hernesheir's excellent The Bindery.
foxing, gilt, headband, bumped, endpaper, leaf, colophon, vellum, laid paper, boards, device, engraving and 168 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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the library
vellum, watermark, dustjacket, chapbook, bookplate, edition, inscribed, signed, haiku, ode, limerick, sonnet and 70 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for signed.
reesetee In book publishing, describes a book that the author has autographed; compare to inscribed. Feb 24, 2008