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signpost | undefined |

As a noun signpost

is a post bearing a sign that gives information on directions.

As a verb signpost

is to install signposts on.

As an adjective undefined is

lacking a definition or value.

signpost

English

Alternative forms

* sign-post

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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
    • 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)
  • To install signposts on.
    • The route wasn't signposted , and we got lost on the way.
  • 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)
    • 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.
  • 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 }}
    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!'

    See also

    * fingerpost * guidepost * waymark

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    undefined

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia undefined) (-)
  • Lacking a definition or value.
  • (mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
    • The result of division by zero is undefined .

    Antonyms

    * defined