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Meaning signal meaning

What does signal mean?
Definitions in simple English

signal Noun

— A picture, or a light, or a movement of a hand, or other thing that tells people to do something. When I make this signal with my hand, everybody walk to the front of the room. — A picture, or a light, or a movement of a hand, or something else that lets someone recognize another person, a ship, an airplane or something else. The sailor saw the signal on the other ship and so recognized it was the enemy.

signal Verb

— When someone or something signals to someone, they use a signal to tell the person something. The red light signals to the cars to stop.

signal

— noun (= signaling) any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message signals from the boat suddenly stopped — verb (= sign) communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs He signed his disapproval with a dismissive hand gesture The diner signaled the waiters to bring the menu — verb (= indicate, point) be a signal for or a symptom of These symptoms indicate a serious illness Her behavior points to a severe neurosis The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued — noun any incitement to action he awaited the signal to start the victory was a signal for wild celebration — noun an electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength) whose modulation represents coded information about the source from which it comes — adjective notably out of the ordinary the year saw one signal triumph for the Labour party

Synonyms signal synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as signal?

signal English » English

sign mark token indication indicate beckon hint gesture character symbol alarm symptom signify signaling point omen motion index flag wave warning warn signalize semaphore make brand badge augury alert watchword traffic light spot siren signalise semaphor remarkable prominent portent pip password noticeable notable marker marked indicator horn give a signal flash figure earmark

Topics signal topics

What do people use signal to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Sign, symbol

Gesture
Language and thought Communication Sign, symbol

Point at
Language and thought Communication Mass communication

Telephone
Physical actions Move Travel Travel by water

Boat

Conjugation signal conjugation

How do you conjugate signal?

signal · verb

Examples signal examples

How do I use signal in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The driver could not distinguish the signal in the fog.
The traffic signal is green.
The signal was red.
A red light is often used as a danger signal.
He didn't notice the small video camera above the traffic signal.
He gave us the signal to begin.
The car's left-turn signal was broken.
It's dangerous to ignore the signal at a railroad crossing.
Tom has been getting a busy signal every time he tries to call Mary.
The ship flashed a distress signal.
Did you hear the alarm signal?
The driver couldn't have stopped at the signal.
An increase in customer complaints could signal a decline in business.
I'll raise my hand as a signal.
Catch a signal.
Don't cross the road while the signal is red.
The ship's captain ordered the radio operator to send a distress signal.
Many Americans are uncomfortable with silence, and they tend to regard silence in a conversation as a signal that they need to start talking.
His standing up was the signal for everybody to start leaving the room.
He didn't catch the signal.
A display, aka monitor, is an appliance that displays video signal of still images and moving pictures produced by a computer or similar device.

Movie subtitles

They could send us a signal, in four years' time it would get here, and then we could reply eight years later to them.
Yet we've only been able to communicate for the past 50 years - a tiny fraction, meaning if another civilisation communicated with us 200 years ago, we would have missed the signal altogether.
If you can check out a few million star systems, you have a really good chance of finding a signal from ET.
We're sending transmissions out into the cosmos, but suppose we detect a signal from an alien civilisation.
But if we do pick up a signal from an alien race, not everyone thinks it's such a good idea to answer back.
And it's mirror, signal, manoeuvre.
Did I signal first again?
Listen up: according to Bishop, the Senator's transmitter signal is coming from the complex, probably the main tower.
Wait for my signal.
At the signal, a mass of molten steel is directed from each furnace into the mold for the gun.
Everyone is waiting for the signal which starts the shell on its voyage.
The Secret Signal.
Give the signal: join us!
The only kind what ever give me that Comanche yell as a signal.
We averaged three, five or ten of these in order to reduce the noise and amplify the signal.
Wait for my signal to shoot.
Signal to them to join us!
The signal!
The only kind whatever gimme that Comanche yell as a signal.
It was the filing of the signal shots in the mess hall that saved us from a disaster of cataclysmic dimensions.
Signal: 18, 72, forward pass, eenie, meenie, miney, mo.
Signal: 18, 42, 56 and run.
Signal: 85, 29, 78. Hup!
Signal.
Then, when you hear my signal. you're to climb up to the balcony.
Will your signal be a whistle?
Will my signal a whistle?
When you hear the signal. you climb up the balcony.
There was no signal!
We'll be able to trace the signal.
When I give the signal, you all start work on this rock pile.
That's a signal for you to make a break for the walls.
They understand my signal for action?
Let's send the signal straight away!
You're sending the signal but didn't took me!
Many days have passed since the signal from the Moon.
I didn't dare signal to her.
Oh, the signal.
It's a distress signal.
There's the signal.

News and current affairs

But from the start, the EU should give a signal by unilaterally opening its border to imports from the region.
Setting standards and goals of human rights is a powerful signal that a country is pointing itself in the right direction.
A US veto of a Security Council resolution - supported by the Council's 14 other members - to oppose Israeli settlements seemed to signal that Obama had crumbled under pressure from America's pro-Israel lobby.
The stress tests were meant to signal to the public that there was no immediate threat of bank failures.
That should signal to Iran's rulers not only that the US is serious about a deal, but also that whatever the US offers is likely to be the best deal that they can get.
It is a tool that we should be ready to use if the situation warrants it, and it would signal to the opposition that it is not alone.
The signal that he intended to slow down government spending was a powerful one, but the immediate effect on the budget was negligible.
But these countries must signal that policies will continue to ensure a progressive and orderly reduction in imbalances together with sustained growth.
If he is to reassure EU national leaders that they should re-appoint him, then he needs to signal that his second term can hold out fresh promise.
Here is a powerful signal that the old relationship between returns and volatility is reasserting itself.
Boosting trade flows between Russia and China, and strengthening political and security coordination, will reduce their vulnerability to outside interference and signal the emergence of a new center of world power.
The Spring Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank offer an important opportunity to signal a new approach toward China.
Moreover, a counter-cyclical policy would signal to the world these countries' willingness to take on global responsibilities.
They will also signal willingness to help the West financially.
The type of rescheduling proposed here would signal the Greek government's readiness to service its debt in full, and thus might be accepted without too much disruption in financial markets.
The public should be relieved if the ECB raises rates, because this would most likely signal that the long-awaited economic recovery is well under way, and that inflationary repercussions are being addressed.
Superconductors are being used for levitated trains in high-speed rail transport, and as microwave filters for improved signal bandwidth in cellular base stations.
There were expectations that the European Council's December meeting would signal a return to a more outward-looking approach, especially on security matters.
For many months, Moscow and federal authorities ignored the highway's opponents, so Medvedev's decision was a signal: contempt for the people is inadmissible.
It should signal a real willingness to replace an order that reflects the world of 1945 with one that reflects the world of 2015.
The bad news is that Europe's feebleness and America's fatigue might also signal the limits of noble ideas such as the obligation to interfere in order to protect populations being brutalized by their own rulers.
How the generals respond to the ASEAN request will be an important signal of the regime's intentions.
At the same time, it could be argued that the spectacle of the opening ceremony was intended to overcome China's historic humiliation by the West and signal a new chapter.
Publication of their plans sends an additional signal of their commitment and provides a valuable roadmap with which to assess progress, and thus help build confidence that all countries are working to reduce imbalances.
The author, a BoE employee named Tobias Neumann, argued that incorporating more data into the models could lead them to pick up noise and mistake it for an important signal.

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