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Signalized vs Signalize - What's the difference?

signalized | signalize |

As verbs the difference between signalized and signalize

is that signalized is (signalize) while signalize is to make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common.

signalized

English

Verb

(head)
  • (signalize)

  • signalize

    English

    Verb

  • To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common.
  • * Burke
  • It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves.
  • To communicate with by means of a signal.
  • a ship signalizes its consort
  • (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.
  • to signalize the arrival of a steamer
  • * Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
  • 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
  • (nonstandard) To install a traffic signal at an intersection that is currently regulated by stop signs.
  • Derived terms

    * signalization

    signalize

    English

    Verb

  • To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common.
  • * Burke
  • It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves.
  • To communicate with by means of a signal.
  • a ship signalizes its consort
  • (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.
  • to signalize the arrival of a steamer
  • * Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
  • 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
  • (nonstandard) To install a traffic signal at an intersection that is currently regulated by stop signs.
  • Derived terms

    * signalization