See Also: signal(2)(dictionary)
signal(1)(dictionary)
signal(dictionary)
SIGNAL(finance)
Signal(medicine)
signal box(dictionary)
Signal(money)
Credible signal(money)
signal void(medicine)
signal transduction(medicine)

aureate (iou) and signal(2) (iou)


aureate (iou)



aureate adjective. LME.
[Late Latin aureatus, from aureus golden, from aurum gold: see -ATE2.]
Golden, gold-coloured. LME.
Resplendent; (of literary style or diction) highly ornamented, elaborate. LME.
aure'ation noun the condition of being aureate in literary style E20.

signal(2) (iou)



signal noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French, alt. of earlier seignal from Proto-Romance, medieval Latin signale use as noun of late Latin signalis, from Latin signum SIGN noun: see -AL1.]
A distinguishing mark; a badge, a symbol. LME-E17.
A sign or indication of a fact or quality, a future occurrence, etc. Also foll. by of, that. LME.
E. Caldwell Her sobs..became more subdued..a signal to Dan that she would soon relent. Times Sterling M3..had given misleading signals.
A sound or gesture intended as a sign to convey warning, direction, or information; Bridge a play or bid intended to convey information about a defender's hand to his or her partner. Also foll. by that, to do. L16.
R. L. Stevenson If any one of you..make a signal of any description, that man's dead. K. A. Porter The tolling of the midnight bell is a signal.
b. A visible or audible device used to make such a sign; spec. (a) a traffic light; (b) a light or semaphore on a railway controlling the movement of trains. L17.
G. Greene Ida..broke her way across the Strand; she couldn't..wait for the signals. Independent A driver stopped his train to report a faulty signal.
c. A modulation of an electric current, electromagnetic wave, etc., by means of which information is conveyed from one place to another; the current or wave itself, esp. regarded as conveying information by its presence about its source. Also = signal strength below. M19.
A usu. prearranged sign, freq. given at a distance, acting as the prompt for a particular action, esp. a military manoeuvre; fig. an immediate occasion or cause of movement, action, etc. Also foll. by for, that, to do. L16.
G. K. Chesterton Await Captain Bruce's signal to advance. A. J. Toynbee The kindling of a light..gave the signal for..bombardment.
Phrases: signal of distress an appeal for help, esp. from a ship by firing guns. yeoman of signals: see YEOMAN 2.
Comb.: signal-book: containing a list of agreed naval and military signals; signal-box a building beside a railway track from which signals are controlled; signal-caller Amer. Football a player who signals the next move or formation to Other team members; signal generator Electronics an instrument that can generate modulated or unmodulated electrical waveforms of known amplitude and frequency, used in adjusting and testing electronic apparatus; signal intelligence = signals intelligence below; signalman (a) a person employed to make or transmit signals, esp. in the army or navy; (b) an employee attending to the signals on a railway line; signal-noise ratio = signal-to-noise ratio below; signal plate Television in some types of camera tube, a plate electrode whose capacitance relative to the adjacent photoelectric surface is used to provide the picture signal; signal red bright red, vermilion; signals intelligence: derived from the monitoring, interception, and interpretation of Radio signals etc.; signal strength the amplitude or power of a signal, esp. of a broadcast signal as it reaches a given location or is received by a given aerial; signal-to-noise ratio the ratio of the strength of a signal carrying information to that of unwanted interference (in Electricity freq. expressed in decibels); signal-tower US = signal-box above.