Embody vs Signal - What's the difference?
embody | signal |
To represent in a physical form; to incarnate or personify
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* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times
, passage=The generational shift Mr. Obama once embodied is, in fact, well under way, but it will not change Washington as quickly — or as harmoniously — as a lot of voters once hoped.}}
To include or represent, especially as part of a cohesive whole
A sign made to give notice of some occurrence, command, or danger, or to indicate the start of a concerted action.
* Milton
An on-off light, semaphore, or other device used to give an indication to another person.
(of a radio, TV, telephone, internet, etc) An electrical or electromagnetic action, normally a voltage that is a function of time that conveys the information of the radio or TV program or of communication with another party.
A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.
* Shakespeare
* De Foe
Useful information, as opposed to noise.
(computing, Unix) A simple interprocess communication used to notify a process or thread of an occurrence.
To indicate.
Standing above others in rank, importance, or achievement.
* Milton
As a verb embody
is to represent in a physical form; to incarnate or personify.As a noun signal is
signal.embody
English
Verb
(en-verb)- As the car salesman approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze.
- The soul, while it is embodied , can no more be divided from sin.
citation
- The US Constitution aimed to embody the ideals of diverse groups of people, from Puritans to Deists.
- The principle was recognized by some of the early Greek philosophers who embodied it in their systems.
Derived terms
* disembody * embodimentsignal
English
(wikipedia signal)Alternative forms
* signallNoun
(en noun)- All obeyed / The wonted signal and superior voice / Of this great potentate.
- My mobile phone can't get a signal in the railway station.
- The weary sun / Gives signal of a goodly day to-morrow.
- There was not the least signal of the calamity to be seen.
Antonyms
* (useful information) noiseDerived terms
* signal box * signalman * signalwoman * smoke signalSee also
* tocsinVerb
Adjective
(-)- a signal''' exploit; a '''signal''' service; a '''signal act of benevolence
- As signal now in low, dejected state / As erst in highest, behold him where he lies.