Othic vs Signpost - What's the difference?
othic | signpost |
a post bearing a sign that gives information on directions
(cryptic crosswords) A word or phrase within a clue that serves as an indicator, rather than being fodder.
* 2012 , David Astle, Puzzled: Secrets and clues from a life in words
To install signposts on.
To direct (somebody) to services, resources, etc.
* 2008 , Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee, Valuing and Supporting Carers (volume 1, page 31)
To indicate logical progress of a discourse using words or phrases such as now, right, to recap, to sum up, as I was saying, etc.
* {{quote-web
, date = 2013-08-08
, author = Charlotte Mulcare
, title = The lost mathematicians: Numbers in the (not so) dark ages
, site = plus.maths.org
, url = http://plus.maths.org/content/lost-mathematicians-numbers-not-so-dark-early-middle-ages
, accessdate = 2013-09-08
}}
othic
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Othic has no English definition. It may be misspelled.signpost
English
Alternative forms
* sign-postNoun
(en noun)- In the first example — Dance revolutionised Burma'' — you know the middle word is the signpost as ''revolutionised is too long to be the fodder (or letters to scramble). And bang, out jumps RUMBA.
Verb
(en verb)- The route wasn't signposted , and we got lost on the way.
- We believe that some Carers' Centres already offer an effective 'first stop shop' for signposting carers to local organisations, services and benefits, and for providing ongoing support as carers' circumstances change.
- Bede, never one to shrink from a challenge, focused his energies not only onto calculating Easter but also onto describing why the maths mattered as much as the result. In this, his elevated rhetoric is balanced by a very human enthusiasm — it's hard not to love a writer who signposts his core hypotheses with phrases such as 'now to gut the bowels of this question!'
