signs (Meaning)

a motion or gesture by which a thought is expressed or a command or wish made known, to communicate by making a sign or by sign language, a motion, action, or movement of the hand by which a thought is expressed or a command or wish made known, a display (such as a lettered board or a configuration of neon tubing) used to identify or advertise a place of business or a product, a public notice that advertises something or gives information, cross sense 2, a symbol (as ÷ or √‾) indicating a mathematical operation, a posted command, warning, or direction, signal sense 2a, a mark having a conventional meaning and used in place of words or to represent a complex notion, to place a sign on or mark by signs, a character (such as ÷) indicating a mathematical operation, something that provides evidence of plant or animal disease, sign language, a fundamental linguistic unit that designates an object or relation or has a purely syntactic function, to affix one's name to, to write one's name on to show that one accepts, agrees with, or is responsible for, one of the 12 parts of the zodiac, a mark having a generally understood meaning and used in place of words, signal entry 1 sense 1, one of two characters + and − that form part of the symbol of a number and characterize it as positive or negative, to make a sign or signal, to use sign language, something that indicates what is present or is to come, to affix a signature to, a character (such as a flat or sharp) used in musical notation, something material or external that stands for or signifies something spiritual, an objective evidence of plant or animal disease, to write down (one's name), to make or place a sign on, presage, portent, to hire by getting to sign something (as a contract), to engage or hire by securing the signature of on a contract of employment, to write one's name in token of assent, responsibility, or obligation, to represent or indicate by a sign, a symbol (as a flat or sharp) used in musical notation, to assign or convey formally, one of a set of gestures used to represent language, something indicating the presence or existence of something else, an objective evidence of disease especially as observed and interpreted by the physician rather than by the patient or lay observer, one of the 12 divisions of the zodiac, segno, one of two symbols + and − characterizing a number as positive or negative, signboard, traces of a usually wild animal