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SIGNATURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A distinguishing style
Example:
this room needs a woman's touch
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("signature" is a kind of...):
fashion; manner; mode; style; way (how something is done or how it happens)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "signature"):
common touch (the property of appealing to people in general (usually by appearing to have qualities in common with them))
Sense 2
Meaning:
A sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("signature" is a kind of...):
piece of paper; sheet; sheet of paper (paper used for writing or printing)
Holonyms ("signature" is a part of...):
book (a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together))
Sense 3
Meaning:
Your name written in your own handwriting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("signature" is a kind of...):
name (a language unit by which a person or thing is known)
Meronyms (parts of "signature"):
paraph (a flourish added after or under your signature (originally to protect against forgery))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "signature"):
allograph (a signature written by one person for another)
autograph; John Hancock (a person's own signature)
countersign; countersignature (a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed)
endorsement; indorsement (a signature that validates something)
sign manual (the signature of a sovereign on an official document)
Derivation:
sign (mark with one's signature; write one's name (on))
Sense 4
Meaning:
The sharps or flats that follow the clef and indicate the key
Synonyms:
key signature; signature
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("signature" is a kind of...):
musical notation ((music) notation used by musicians)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A melody used to identify a performer or a dance band or radio/tv program
Synonyms:
signature; signature tune; theme song
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("signature" is a kind of...):
air; line; melodic line; melodic phrase; melody; strain; tune (a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence)
Context examples:
This could produce a signature in the measurements of Cassini while in orbit about Saturn if the planet was close enough to the sun.
(Saturn Spacecraft Not Affected by Hypothetical Planet 9, NASA)
The two Siwashes put crosses opposite their signatures, received a summons to appear on the morrow with all their tribe for a further witnessing of things, and were allowed to go.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
A team of scientists used data from NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument to identify three specific signatures that definitively prove there is water ice at the surface of the Moon.
(Ice Confirmed at the Moon's Poles, NASA)
The door was then thrown open, and the general population began to come in, in a long file: several waiting outside, while one entered, affixed his signature, and went out.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
One of the signatures of damaged cells in cancer or blunt trauma is a change in the pattern of these microtubule markers.
(Scientists unravel the mystery of the tubulin code, NIH)
Previous observations of the poles of Mercury with Earth-based radar revealed a signature characteristic of thick, pure ice deposits.
(The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits, NASA)
This ability, known as "abstract rule learning," is a signature of human perception and cognition.
(Infants Are Able to Learn Abstract Rules Visually, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A data type comprised of encapsulated data in the form of a signature.
(Encapsulated Data Signature Data Type, NCI Thesaurus)
The 1,352-aa protein contains a C-terminal leucine zipper domain and a ribosomal protein S14 signature domain.
(Neuroblastoma-Amplified Sequence, NCI Thesaurus)
After conjugation of the captured analyte to the bead, the beads are differentiated by their size and their spectral signature, allowing quantitation of analyte concentration in the sample.
(Multi-Analyte Fluorescent Detection, NCI Thesaurus)
