Noun: signal
| Singular | signal |
| Plural | signals |
Sample Sentences
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All obeyed / The wonted signal and superior voice / Of this great potentate. [1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
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Banner-Repeater signals tend to be provided in locations where drivers receive insufficient warning of the main signal, thereby effectively increasing the sighting distance for the main signal. [2020 December 30, David Allen, “Unusual signals...”, in Rail, page 64:]
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My mobile phone can't get a signal in the railway station.
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The weary sun […] / Gives signal of a goodly day to-morrow. [c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:]
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There was not the least signal of the calamity to be seen. [1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year:]
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Did I get it wrong all along? / You were sending signals / You sent certain signals to me [2023, Róisín Murphy, “Hurtz So Bad”, in Hit Parade:]
Nouns inflected like signal
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old French segnal, seignal or Medieval Latin signāle; noun use of the neuter of Late Latin signālis, from Latin signum; verb use from 1805, as a shortened from signalize (1650s). Doublet of signum and sign. See: Latin Nouns '
signum'.
Verbs referencing "signal"
Finnish Nouns
signaali.