Definition of Signal

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Signal

A sign made for the purpose of giving notice to a person of some occurence, command, or danger; also, a sign, event, or watchword, which has been agreed upon as the occasion of concerted action.

A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.

Noticeable; distinguished from what is ordinary; eminent; remarkable; memorable; as, a signal exploit; a signal service; a signal act of benevolence.

Of or pertaining to signals, or the use of signals in conveying information; as, a signal flag or officer.

To communicate by signals; as, to signal orders.

To notify by a signals; to make a signal or signals to; as, to signal a fleet to anchor.

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Signal Quotations

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Napoleon Hill

As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
Charles de Gaulle

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
Gloria Steinem

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is the first illegal drug that they are exposed to.
John Walters

I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living.
Kid Rock

I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!
Horatio Nelson

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
Alfred North Whitehead

Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.
Patrick J. Kennedy

Signal Translations

signal in Afrikaans is teken
signal in Danish is tegn
signal in Dutch is een sein geven, seinen
signal in Finnish is merkki
signal in French is signal, signalons, signalez, signe, signaler
signal in German is Zeichen, Signal
signal in Italian is segnale
signal in Portuguese is sinal, aceno

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