Signify vs Signalize - What's the difference?
signify | signalize |
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)
To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common.
* Burke
To communicate with by means of a signal.
(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.
* Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
(nonstandard) To install a traffic signal at an intersection that is currently regulated by stop signs.
As verbs the difference between signify and signalize
is that signify is to give (something) a meaning or an importance while signalize is to make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common.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.
Synonyms
* (l) * (l)signalize
English
Verb
- It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves.
- a ship signalizes its consort
- to signalize the arrival of a steamer
- 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
