Signed vs Subscribed - What's the difference?
signed | subscribed |
(mathematics, computer science) Having both positive and negative varieties.
Having a signature, endorsed.
(Of a road, route) Furnished with signs and signposts; signposted.
* 2013: Backpacking Wyoming: From Towering Granite Peaks to Steaming Geyser Basins , Wilderness Press, p. 64 [//books.google.com/books?id=nT9LAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA64]
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(ergative) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.
To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access or a cell phone plan.
To believe or agree with a theory or an idea.
To pay money to be a member of an organization.
To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.
To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.
(business, and, finance) To agree to buy shares in a company.
To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.
* Milman
(archaic) To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
* Sir Thomas More
(obsolete) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.
(obsolete) To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.
(obsolete) To declare over one's signature; to publish.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between signed and subscribed
is that signed is past tense of sign while subscribed is past tense of subscribe.As an adjective signed
is having both positive and negative varieties.signed
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Adjective
(-)- It wasn't until they tried to subtract 3 from 1 that the elementary school students realized they needed signed numbers.
- The signed check could be cashed.
- Turn left on poorly signed Highway 292 and proceed on this winding road for about 12 miles…
Antonyms
* unsignedVerb
(head)Anagrams
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(subscrib)- Would you like to subscribe''' or '''subscribe a friend to our new magazine, Lexicography Illustrated?
- I don’t subscribe to that theory.
- 1913:' Theodore Roosevelt, ''Autobiography'' — under no circumstances could I ever again be nominated for any public office, as no corporation would '''subscribe''' to a campaign fund if I was on the ticket, and that they would ' subscribe most heavily to beat me;
- Each man subscribed ten dollars.
- 1776:' Adam Smith, ''The Wealth of Nations'' — The capital which had been ' subscribed to this bank, at two different subscriptions, amounted to one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, of which eighty per cent only was paid up.
- Parties subscribe''' a covenant or contract; a man '''subscribes a bond.
- Officers subscribe''' their official acts, and secretaries and clerks '''subscribe copies or records.
- All the bishops subscribed the sentence.
- [They] subscribed their names under them.
- (Shakespeare)
- I will subscribe him a coward.