signify

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signify englannista suomeksi

  1. ilmaista

  2. merkitä

  1. Verbi

  2. merkitä, tarkoittaa

signify englanniksi

  1. To create a sign out of something.

  2. To give (something) a meaning or an importance. (rfquote-sense)

  3. To show one’s intentions with a sign etc.; to indicate, announce.

  4. (RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3)

  5. (RQ:King James Version)

  6. (quote-journal) or else, that it doth not stand with the good Pleasure of ''England'', to suffer any ''Silver'' at all among us.

  7. (RQ:Hardy Woodlanders)

  8. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Heinemann|chapter=Chapter Two|url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20120508/html.php|text=“Do you want to write a cheque, Granny?” The old eyes signified assent.

  9. To mean; to betoken.

  10. (RQ:Shakespeare Macbeth) a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.

  11. (RQ:Dickens Barnaby Rudge)

  12. (quote-book)

  13. (quote-book)|location=New York|publisher=Vintage|year_published=1990|chapter=Chapter 11|text=There are three messages which can be sent by means of the convolvulus. A white one signifies ''Why are you fleeing me?'' A pink one signifies ''I shall bind myself to you''. A blue one signifies ''I shall wait for better days''.

  14. To make a difference; to matter (''in negative or interrogative expressions'').

  15. (RQ:Defoe Moll Flanders)

  16. (RQ:Scott Rob Roy)

  17. (RQ:Carroll Alice). She soon got it out again, and put it right; “not that it signifies much,” she said to herself; “I should think it would be ''quite'' as much use in the trial one way up as the other.”

  18. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Heinemann|year_published=1962|section=Part One, Chapter 3|page=37|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.285973|text=“He was Charles. You can read it there. Charles Hale.” / “That don’t signify,” Ida said. “A man always has a different name for strangers. (..)