Signal vs Noble - What's the difference?
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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
An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood.
* 1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Courte :
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 93:
Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character.
Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid.
*, chapter=5
, title= Of exalted rank; of or relating to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn.
Signal is a related term of noble.
As a noun signal
is signal.As a proper noun noble is
.signal
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.
Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----noble
English
(wikipedia noble)Noun
(en noun)- This country house was occupied by nobles in the 16th century.
- I lyked no thynge his playe, / For yf I had not quyckely fledde the touche, / He had plucte oute the nobles of my pouche.
- And who shall then stick closest to ye, and excite others? not he who takes up armes for cote and conduct, and his four nobles of Danegelt.
- There, before the high altar, as the choir's voices soared upwards to the blue, star-flecked ceiling, Henry knelt and made his offering of a ‘noble in gold’, 6s 8d.
Antonyms
* commoner * plebeianHyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* half-noble * noble gasAdjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}