(v. t.) To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens.
(v. t.) To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark cloud often betokens a storm.
Example Sentences:
(1) But ‘widespread and systematic’ does betoken government control.” Crane said: “Now we have direct evidence of what was happening to people who had disappeared.
(2) Their suicide exploits inside Israel proper betokened the much larger meaning which the intifada carried for them: "complete liberation" to which, in his early years, Arafat had subscribed.
(3) The head of the ulna almost certainly betokens a range of radioulnar supination in cercopithecoids that is substantially less than is to be found in any of the hominoid genera.
(4) But the differences between the various conditions were small (below 20 degrees) and seem attributable to various distortions of the response wave from away from a true sinusoid, rather than betokening a difference in the ratio of velocity to length sensitivity under the various conditions.
(5) RFK reportedly adored JFK, while the latter was capable of snarling putdowns that surely betokened a fragile sense of self-worth pathetic in the most powerful man on the planet.
(6) All these properties betoken the polysaccharidic nature of M antigen.
(7) His recorded observations on colour blindness are detailed and precise and betoken the approach which was to characterise all his later research in chemistry.
(8) The proportional increase of elderly persons in most communities and increasing tooth retention among them betoken considerable change in gerodontic needs.
(9) As he speaks, there is, behind those crypto-Trotskyist glasses, a glint betokening political ardour.
Signify
Definition:
(n.) To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to express; as, a signified his desire to be present.
(n.) To mean; to import; to denote; to betoken.
Example Sentences:
(1) These steps signify a willingness for engagement not seen before, but they have been overshadowed by the "nuclear crisis" triggered in October 2002 when Pyongyang admitted to having the "know-how", but not the technology, for a highly enriched uranium route to nuclear weapons.
(2) Differences in reactivity of various electrogenic membrane components to tetrodotoxin are discussed as signifying differences in chemical structures.
(3) These results are interpreted to signify that (1) inspiratory inhibitory inputs are more susceptible to depression by PB than inspiratory drive mechanisms; (2) the breathing pattern of apneusis results when summed inspiratory inhibition is reduced below a critical minimum level; (3) vagal and pneumotaxic center inhibitions on inspiration are equally weighted at apneusis, but not at apnea.
(4) The process of recovery has three stages, in the first the patient is unconscious, in the second he or she regains full consciousness signified by the end of the period of post traumatic amnesia and continues to show evidence of rapid improvement in basic physical and mental functions.
(5) These collective findings may signify an interesting difference in the release process in such diverse systems or denote a dissimilarity in the transport or processing of the toxin when applied into intact neurones or cells permeabilised by detergent or streptolysin.
(6) This signifies the presence of different immunogenic components on SRBC No.
(7) Spanish football fans’ habit of waving white hankies tends to be derisive, signifying that they wish a hapless manager to be put out of their club’s misery.
(8) Neutropenia in the presence of respiratory distress in the first 72 hours had an 84% likelihood of signifying bacterial disease, whereas neutropenia in the presence of asphyxia had a 68% likelihood of signifying bacterial disease.
(9) From Bantry Bay to Bucharest, European ceilings today bear witness to a mass hanging signifying the end of the incandescent bulb.
(10) On deeper examination, such requests may signify staff dysfunction caused by arousal of conflictual feelings about the behavior of illness of the patient.
(11) A silent protester cries while wearing a sticker over her mouth signifying the loss in wages from the right-to-work law in Lansing, Michigan, on 12 December 2012.
(12) Generation of plasmin activity in the first hour was signified by an 11-fold rise in D-dimer levels (p less than 0.0001); inhibition of plasmin was reflected by a 36-fold rise in plasmin-alpha 2 antiplasmin complexes (p less than 0.0001), as well as by a transient 16% decrease in alpha 2-antiplasmin activity (p less than 0.01).
(13) The main symptom "incoordination" (ataxia, asynergy, paresis, paralysis) is used by us more precisely only in case of impairment of nervous system by neoplastic infiltrations and does not signify as possible symptoms of general physical weakness, for example faltering, staggering, tumbling or lameness.
(14) This suggests that isolation of EBV from HD tissue does not always signify a pathogenetic role for the virus.
(15) This will signify ‘ringing the changes’ in their chosen campaign.
(16) This activation may signify a specific genetic response to ischemia affecting tolerance to ischemia and ultimate cell survival.
(17) The remaining question was whether or not this necessarily signified pervasive tissue hypoxia.
(18) About 1 mol of ATP was hydrolyzed per mol of Ca2+ transported, signifying that the ATPase activity was relevant to the Ca2+ transport system of the membranes.
(19) 10(-3), signifying that coproferrihaem shows the least tendency to dimerize of any ferrihaem so far investigated.
(20) Forrest (1965, 1969, 1973, 1976) has attacked the contention of many cognitive psychologists that schizophrenic behavior is best signified by deviations in language and aberrancies of thought.