SIGNALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does signalize mean? 

• SIGNALIZE (verb)
  The verb SIGNALIZE has 4 senses:

1. provide with traffic signals

2. communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs

3. point out carefully and clearly

4. make conspicuous or noteworthy

  Familiarity information: SIGNALIZE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIGNALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they signalize    ... he / she / it signalizes   
Past simple: signalized   
Past participle: signalized   
-ing form: signalizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide with traffic signals

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

signalise; signalize

Context example:

signalize a busy intersection

Hypernyms (to "signalize" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

signal (any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

sign; signal; signalise; signalize

Context example:

The diner signaled the waiters to bring the menu

Hypernyms (to "signalize" is one way to...):

communicate; intercommunicate (transmit thoughts or feelings)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "signalize"):

wigwag (signal by or as if by a flag or light waved according to a code)

semaphore (send signals by or as if by semaphore)

heliograph (signal by means of a mirror and the using the sun's rays)

flag (communicate or signal with a flag)

whistle (give a signal by whistling)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They signalize the information to them

Derivation:

signal (any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Point out carefully and clearly

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

call attention; point out; signalise; signalize

Hypernyms (to "signalize" is one way to...):

designate; indicate; point; show (indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

signal (any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Make conspicuous or noteworthy

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

distinguish; signalise; signalize

Hypernyms (to "signalize" is one way to...):

mark (designate as if by a mark)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "signalize"):

singularise; singularize (distinguish as singular)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

signal (any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message)

signalization (a conspicuous indication)

 Context examples 

Mr. Micawber being now on the eve of casting off the pecuniary shackles that have so long enthralled him, said Mrs. Micawber, and of commencing a new career in a country where there is sufficient range for his abilities,—which, in my opinion, is exceedingly important; Mr. Micawber's abilities peculiarly requiring space,—it seems to me that my family should signalize the occasion by coming forward.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)