Signifies vs Lignifies - What's the difference?
signifies | lignifies |
(signify)
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To give (something) a meaning or an importance.
To show one’s intentions with a sign etc.
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare)
* (rfdate) (Jonathan Swift)
To mean; to betoken.
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare)
(lignify)
To become wood.
(botany): To develop woody tissue as a result of incrustation of lignin during secondary growth.
(intransitive), (by extension ): To become rigid or fixed, like something made of wood.
To turn into wood; to make ligneous.
As verbs the difference between signifies and lignifies
is that signifies is third-person singular of signify while lignifies is third-person singular of lignify.signifies
English
Verb
(head)signify
English
Verb
(en-verb)- I'll to the king; and signify to him / That thus I have resign'd my charge to you.
- The government should signify to the Protestants of Ireland that want of silver is not to be remedied.
- A tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.