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SIGNED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Used of the language of the deaf
Synonyms:
gestural; sign; sign-language; signed
Classified under:
Similar:
communicative; communicatory (able or tending to communicate)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having a handwritten signature
Example:
a signed letter
Classified under:
Similar:
autographed (bearing an autograph)
subscribed ((of a contract or will or other document) having a signature written at the end)
Antonym:
unsigned (lacking a signature)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb sign
Context examples:
The date on which the protocol is signed by the study director.
(Nonclinical Study Start Date, Food and Drug Administration/CDISC)
Specifies whether a doctor has reviewed and signed off on a document or activity.
(Physician Sign Off Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)
Steiner is the fifth man you’ve lost since I signed on with you, and I know the name of the sixth if I don’t get a move on.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A variable that is stored as a signed 64-bit (8-byte) integer.
(Long, NCI Thesaurus)
Thirty years ago, the international community signed the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and began regulating ozone-depleting compounds.
(Warmth in the Antarctic stratosphere helped limit the size of the ozone hole in 2017 to the smallest observed since 1988, NOAA)
Signed and sealed on the fourth day of the eighty-ninth moon of your majesty’s auspicious reign.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
At the end were the signatures of the high dignitaries who had signed it.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Quite absorbed in her work, Jo scribbled away till the last page was filled, when she signed her name with a flourish and threw down her pen, exclaiming...
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Why, I've only been back three weeks from Uganda, and taken a place in Scotland, and signed the lease and all.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mr. Briggs intimates that the answer to his application was not from Mr. Rochester, but from a lady: it is signed 'Alice Fairfax.'
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
