Definition of Signalize

1. Verb. Provide with traffic signals. "Signalize a busy intersection"

Exact synonyms: Signalise
Generic synonyms: Furnish, Provide, Render, Supply
Derivative terms: Signal

2. Verb. Communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs. "They signalize the information to them"; "The diner signaled the waiters to bring the menu"
Exact synonyms: Sign, Signal, Signalise
Generic synonyms: Communicate, Intercommunicate
Specialized synonyms: Wigwag, Semaphore, Heliograph, Flag, Whistle
Derivative terms: Sign, Sign, Signer, Signing, Signal, Signaler, Signaling, Signaller, Signal

3. Verb. Point out carefully and clearly.
Exact synonyms: Call Attention, Point Out, Signalise
Generic synonyms: Designate, Indicate, Point, Show
Derivative terms: Signal

4. Verb. Make conspicuous or noteworthy.
Exact synonyms: Distinguish, Signalise
Generic synonyms: Mark
Specialized synonyms: Singularise, Singularize
Derivative terms: Signalisation, Signal, Signalization

Definition of Signalize

1. v. t. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.

Definition of Signalize

1. Verb. (humorous or nonstandard) To make something noticeable, different, remarkable or conspicuous, especially by gesticulation. ¹

2. Verb. (nonstandard) To signal. ¹

3. Verb. (nonstandard) To install a traffic signal at an intersection that is currently regulated by stop signs. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Signalize

1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Signalize

signaleses
signaling
signaling device
signalings
signalisation
signalise
signalised
signalises
signalising
signalist
signalists
signalities
signality
signalization
signalizations
signalize (current term)
signalized
signalizes
signalizing
signall
signalled
signaller
signallers
signalling
signalling event
signally
signalman
signalmen
signalment
signalments

Literary usage of Signalize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737: By by William Stephens (1906)
"... Volunteers, taking to Arms at their own Expence, from Carolina and elsewhere, in order to signalize themselves against the Enemies of their Country; ..."

2. The British History of Geoffrey of Monmouth: In Twelve Books by Geoffrey (1842)
"... signalize THEIR VALOUR IN THE FIGHT. The battle AND now in this latter encounter the Britons were ..."

3. Biographia Borealis; Or Lives of Distinguished Northerns, by Hartley Coleridge (1833)
"... signalize their grief by wounding their bodies, which is performed with a shark's tooth. Fragments of doth, stained with blood and tears are thrown upon ..."

4. A Consideration of the Sermon on the Mount by Daniel Harvey Hill (1858)
"Haman, to signalize his vengeance against Mordecai, prepared for him gf gallows fifty cubits high. He was himself suspended from that lofty height, ..."

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