Characterize vs Signalize - What's the difference?
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to depict someone or something a particular way (often negative)
to determine the characteristics of
* {{quote-book, passage=This glossary includes terminology used in coastal science, engineering, geology, management, nearshore oceanography and the technologies that characterize , measure, describe or quantify the physical properties, processes and changes of the coastal zone.
, title=Department of Ecology Publication No. 98-105
, chapter=Glossary of Coastal Terminology
, author=Brian Voigt
, year=1998
To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common.
* Burke
To communicate with by means of a signal.
(humorous, or, nonstandard) To make something noticeable, different, remarkable or conspicuous, especially by gesticulation.
(nonstandard) To signal; to indicate the existence, presence, or fact of, by a signal.
* Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
(nonstandard) To install a traffic signal at an intersection that is currently regulated by stop signs.
As verbs the difference between characterize and signalize
is that characterize is to depict someone or something a particular way (often negative while signalize is to make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common.characterize
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(Characterization)Alternative forms
* characteriseVerb
(characteriz)citation
Derived terms
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* *signalize
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Verb
- It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves.
- a ship signalizes its consort
- to signalize the arrival of a steamer
- And yet... looking here at this bottle which by its number signalized the day when Colonel Freeleigh had stumbled and fallen six feet into the earth, Douglas could not find so much as a gram of dark sediment
