(n.) That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof.
(n.) A remarkable event, considered by the ancients as indicating the will of some deity; a prodigy; an omen.
(n.) An event considered by the Jews as indicating the divine will, or as manifesting an interposition of the divine power for some special end; a miracle; a wonder.
(n.) Something serving to indicate the existence, or preserve the memory, of a thing; a token; a memorial; a monument.
(n.) Any symbol or emblem which prefigures, typifles, or represents, an idea; a type; hence, sometimes, a picture.
(n.) A word or a character regarded as the outward manifestation of thought; as, words are the sign of ideas.
(n.) A motion, an action, or a gesture by which a thought is expressed, or a command or a wish made known.
(n.) Hence, one of the gestures of pantomime, or of a language of a signs such as those used by the North American Indians, or those used by the deaf and dumb.
(n.) A military emblem carried on a banner or a standard.
(n.) A lettered board, or other conspicuous notice, placed upon or before a building, room, shop, or office to advertise the business there transacted, or the name of the person or firm carrying it on; a publicly displayed token or notice.
(n.) The twelfth part of the ecliptic or zodiac.
(n.) A character indicating the relation of quantities, or an operation performed upon them; as, the sign + (plus); the sign -- (minus); the sign of division Ö, and the like.
(n.) An objective evidence of disease; that is, one appreciable by some one other than the patient.
(n.) Any character, as a flat, sharp, dot, etc.
(n.) That which, being external, stands for, or signifies, something internal or spiritual; -- a term used in the Church of England in speaking of an ordinance considered with reference to that which it represents.
(n.) To represent by a sign; to make known in a typical or emblematic manner, in distinction from speech; to signify.
(n.) To make a sign upon; to mark with a sign.
(n.) To affix a signature to; to ratify by hand or seal; to subscribe in one's own handwriting.
(n.) To assign or convey formally; -- used with away.
(n.) To mark; to make distinguishable.
(v. i.) To be a sign or omen.
(v. i.) To make a sign or signal; to communicate directions or intelligence by signs.
(v. i.) To write one's name, esp. as a token of assent, responsibility, or obligation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Forty-nine patients (with 83 eyes showing signs of the disease) were followed up for between six months and 12 years.
(2) It is concluded that during exposure to simulated microgravity early signs of osteoporosis occur in the tibial spongiosa and that changes in the spongy matter of tubular bones and vertebrae are similar and systemic.
(3) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
(4) The neurologic or digestive signs were present in 12% of the children.
(5) The recent rise in manufacturing has been welcomed by George Osborne as a sign that his economic policies are bearing fruit.
(6) The omission of Crossrail 2 from the Conservative manifesto , in which other infrastructure projects were listed, was the clearest sign yet that there is little appetite in a Theresa May government for another London-based scheme.
(7) In patients with coronary artery disease, electrocardiographic signs of left atrial enlargement (LAE-negative P wave deflection greater than or equal to 1 mm2 in lead V1) are associated with increased left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP).
(8) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
(9) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
(10) Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography failed to demonstrate any bile ducts in the right postero-lateral segments of the liver, the "naked segment sign".
(11) There was prompt symptomatic relief and amelioration of signs of nephritis.
(12) In the 2nd family, several members had cerebellar signs, chorea, and dementia.
(13) There are several common clinical signs which should alert the physician to a possible diagnosis of SLE and which should condition him to look for specific clinical and laboratory findings.
(14) It is also a clear sign of our willingness and determination to step up engagement across the whole range of the EU-Turkey relationship to fully reflect the strategic importance of our relations.
(15) Some retailers said April's downpours led to pent-up demand which was unleashed at the first sign of summer, with shoppers rushing to update their summer wardrobes.
(16) About tow amyloid tumors diagnosed because of oropharyngeous signs, the authors remind the main symptoms at the upper airway and ENT tracts; the local, regional and general treatment will be discussed.
(17) In addition, PDBu-treated subjects showed signs of having remembered the location of the platform better than controls when tested 24 h later.
(18) No signs of the blood-brain barrier disruption were observed.
(19) Never become so enamored of your own smarts that you stop signing up for life’s hard classes.
(20) However, coinciding with the height of inflammation and clinical signs at 12 dpi, the GFAP mRNA content dropped to approximately 50% of the level at 11 dpi but rose again at 13 dpi.
Vestige
Definition:
(n.) The mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign; hence, a faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present; remains; as, the vestiges of ancient magnificence in Palmyra; vestiges of former population.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Conservatives are offering the gay community no new measures to remedy the remaining vestiges of homophobia and transphobia .
(2) Cells and cell lines from malignant rat mammary tumours of increasing metastatic potential and from malignant areas of human ductal carcinomas largely fail to yield fully differentiated myoepithelial-like or alveolar-like cells in culture; however, weakly metastasizing rat cells yield variants which may retain a vestige of the myoepithelial phenotype.
(3) Many bacterial vestiges were probably retained in eukaryotes, mostly those related to the dominant and lasting role of small replicons in all their bacterial precursors.
(4) The pledge to meet the international aid target is one of the few remaining vestiges of the pre-government, compassionate Conservative Cameron.
(5) This was a design clearly untroubled by the least vestige of aesthetic ambition.
(6) The results suggest that the Bhil frequencies include vestiges of the ancestral genepool of a more widespread aboriginal population whose influence is detectable in the gene frequencies of some other populations in India.
(7) This is a case report of a rare tumour of the ovary originally developing from the embryonal vestiges of the Wolffian duct and becoming a pure mesonephrotic carcinoma.
(8) These 18 amino acids may either constitute the unique vestige of a divergent evolution between the B domains of factors V and VIII or reveal the convergent evolution toward a critical epitope involved in the activation of both procofactors.
(9) After a variable and partially overlapping time period, these fibers enter the cortical plate while the subplate zone disappears leaving only a vestige of cells scattered throughout the subcortical white matter.
(10) Romney, dispensing with the last vestiges of respect for the office of the president, said: "You will get your chance in a minute.
(11) The library did not deem it appropriate to pay citizen Burovaya [Skorodumov widow] for the erotic literature, broadsheets and magazines, as this literature presents neither scientific nor historical value to the library’s readers, and is an especially harmful vestige of bourgeois ideology,” he wrote.
(12) "This is a world-first initiative designed to remove the last vestige of glamour from tobacco products," she told parliament.
(13) The cane mouse apparently is unique among the animals challenged so far in these ways in that it seems to have no vestige of reproductive photoresponsiveness.
(14) In all likelihood, however, few PAAs will be shown to produce a single "pure" activity and because there are some similarities in the different SARs (even though there are some very clear differences) it is not unreasonable to assume that many PAAs will produce more than one type of effect or will display vestiges of one or more different components of action.
(15) But there was a nervousness among some senior Tories that Osborne had abandoned the last vestige of compassionate Conservatism and bet the farm on such an unflinching approach to the deficit.
(16) The method is also useful for the evaluation of chronic ankle instability, follow-up examinations, and for the detection of vestiges of previous trauma of the contralateral ankle.
(17) We hypothesize that this pathway represents vestiges of a more primitive C pathway.
(18) The data are compatible with the notion that suppression of clonal expansion represents the primary mechanism of tolerance maintenance (induction), and that the infrequently observed serum reactivity in such tolerant mice represents a vestige of the means whereby-cell mediated suppression was induced.
(19) Just outside the university, vestiges of recent counter-protests littered the pavements – scattered leaflets and bold red banners reading "say no to Occupy Central" affixed to the guardrails.
(20) Along the path runs a silhouetted Pip, the last vestiges of sunlight again twinkling off the water as he passes two unoccupied gallows, a sorry bunch of dry flowers in one hand, clouds smeared across the sky like oil paint.