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Meanings of signifier in English
The phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something.
Synonyms
Examples for "form"
Examples for "form"
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It's not just about state violence in the form of police violence.
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However, second normal form is only one of many possible normal forms.
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The banks' recent run of good form came to an end today.
4
The Scottish professional teams have shown good form this year in France.
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As a result it was impossible to form an effective parliamentary government.
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The best aesthetic descriptor of Trump's look, I'd argue, is dictator style.
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It was never a descriptor of the company that we gave ourselves.
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For want of a better technical descriptor, this is world's first intelligent hybrid.
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Most of the time we agree on the descriptor, but occasionally we don't.
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Damaged hair is almost an irrelevant descriptor, because it is standard.
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Unfortunately Hanslick meant something altogether different from the Herbartians by his use of the word form.
2
This was seen for both groups of children for word form recall and for children with DLD for meaning.
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Discovered by Dehaene, it is called the "visual word form area" and is located behind the left ear.
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Therefore it is argued that this patient had damage to an early stage in the reading process, to the visual word form itself.
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It is therefore concluded that PD reads words more slowly because of an additional impairment at the level of the word form system.
Usage of signifier in English
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It's also a signifier of royal luxury and opulence or religious devotion.
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Think of it as a 30-second signifier: Your ringtone speaks volumes about you.
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So now supersized TVs equate with supersized people as a signifier of powerlessness.
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The way we smell - that subtle yet significant olfactory signifier.
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But indifference towards our national team is an important signifier of a changing England.
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The lengthy gap between albums is not a signifier of a difficult process, though.
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Equity price falls can sometimes be a signifier of nothing.
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With every step on those cracked sidewalks, I passed a new signifier of urban decay.
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A signifier for sweatshops and the exploitation of globalisation.
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In each of these cases, the signifier overwhelms that which it was meant to signify.
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No smile escaped her lips, no signifier of relief.
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A Volkswagen Passat is on the stage, signifier of a new partnership with the German automaker.
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But considered in context, his unpolished online presence stands as a signifier of his unexpected ascent.
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Pepsi There's no greater signifier of hitting your artistic nadir than sharing screen time with Will.i.am.
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He now seems as much a signifier of the Reagan era as leg warmers or Pac-Man.
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Take pay, the ultimate signifier of capitalist pedigree.
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