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Bode vs Signify - What's the difference?

bode | signify |

As verbs the difference between bode and signify

is that bode is to indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow while signify is to give (something) a meaning or an importance.

As a noun bode

is an omen; a foreshadowing.

As a proper noun Bode

is {{surname}.

bode

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) boden, from (etyl) ). : Since 1740 also a shortening of forebode

Verb

(bod)
  • To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow.
  • To foreshow something; to augur.
  • * Dryden
    • Whatever now / The omen proved, it boded well to you.
    Derived terms
    * bodement

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An omen; a foreshadowing.
  • * Chaucer
    • The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.
  • (obsolete, or, dialect) A bid; an offer.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • A messenger; a herald.
    • (Robertson)
  • A stop; a halting; delay.

    • Etymology 2

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    Verb

    (head)
  • (bide)
  • * Tennyson
    • There that night they bode .

    References

    * [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=bode&searchmode=none]

    Anagrams

    * English irregular simple past forms ----

    signify

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To give (something) a meaning or an importance.
  • To show one’s intentions with a sign etc.
  • * (rfdate) (William Shakespeare)
    • I'll to the king; and signify to him / That thus I have resign'd my charge to you.
  • * (rfdate) (Jonathan Swift)
    • The government should signify to the Protestants of Ireland that want of silver is not to be remedied.
  • To mean; to betoken.
  • * (rfdate) (William Shakespeare)
    • A tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.

    Synonyms

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