signify
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signify englanniksi
To create a sign out of something.
To give (something) a meaning or an importance. (rfquote-sense)
To show one’s intentions with a sign etc.; to indicate, announce.
(RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3)
(RQ:King James Version)
(quote-journal) or else, that it doth not stand with the good Pleasure of ''England'', to suffer any ''Silver'' at all among us.
(RQ:Hardy Woodlanders)
(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.
(RQ:Shakespeare Macbeth) a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.
(RQ:Dickens Barnaby Rudge)
(quote-book)
(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''.
To make a difference; to matter (''in negative or interrogative expressions'').
(RQ:Defoe Moll Flanders)
(RQ:Scott Rob Roy)
(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.”
(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. (..)”