What's the difference between signatory and signer?

Signatory


Definition:

  • (a.) Relating to a seal; used in sealing.
  • (a.) Signing; joining or sharing in a signature; as, signatory powers.
  • (n.) A signer; one who signs or subscribes; as, a conference of signatories.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Among its signatories were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover.
  • (2) It is widely seen as a counter to China’s economic might in Asia, and the world’s second largest economy is notably absent from the list of signatories.
  • (3) Off The Hook has facilities of up to £30,000 from the bank, a signatory to the Project Merlin agreement.
  • (4) By sharing insights and best practice expertise through [the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Sustainability Action Plan] esap and other platforms, Wrap believes business models such as trade-in services will be a reality in the next three to five years.” The actions of the 51 signatories to esap include: implementing new business models such as take-back and resale; extending product durability; and gaining greater value from reuse and recycling.
  • (5) The opposing letter has twice the number of signatories, from all over the world.
  • (6) Rwanda was among 11 signatories to a regional peace agreement signed last month, and has been praised for progress on poverty alleviation.
  • (7) Dunlop was among the signatories to another open letter, published in October , in which prominent Australians had called for the Paris conference to discuss banning new coalmines.
  • (8) Campbell said that if all signatories to the convention killed as many minke whales as Japan does, then more than 83,000 would be slaughtered in the Southern Ocean every year.
  • (9) A UN spokesman said the UK was the signatory to a number of international treaties that protect the right to adequate housing and non-discrimination.
  • (10) The letter is particularly striking given that some of signatories are on the party's centre right, such as Progress and Policy Network, and others on the left, such as key figures at Compass and Class.
  • (11) If anyone wants to make an inference [from this that they supported] imposition then that is their inference, [but] that is not what [the signatories] have committed their names to.
  • (12) Even Kiev, which came last of 30 cities in Siemen’s 2009 European Green City Index , is a signatory.
  • (13) In a sign of Labour's need to avoid tension with business, Darling was careful to stress he was not criticising the signatories but said: "I wonder if one of their finance directors came to them and said 'look, we have this wonderful idea, and we are going to pay with it by savings we have not yet identified and by calculations we cannot verify', they would say 'that is complete nonsense'."
  • (14) It is hard to think of a better provisional epitaph than that supplied in the midst of his later troubles by Martin Palouš, one of the first signatories of Charter 77: "Havel was the man who was able to stage this miracle play.
  • (15) The other signatories include John Dugard, a South African jurist and former UN special rapporteur in the occupied territories; Luisa Morgantini, former president of the European parliament; Cynthia McKinney, a former member of the US Congress; Ronnie Kasrils, a South African former cabinet minister; and the dramatist Caryl Churchill.
  • (16) Dr Colin Bannon Plymouth • As a signatory to the Action on Sugar campaign , the British Dental Association supports a tax on sugar to curb childhood obesity, and we would add, tooth decay.
  • (17) Turnbull was later asked about the domestic challenges in signatory countries to ratifying the TPP.
  • (18) Does Obama include the right to enrich uranium, which Iran is entitled to do as a signatory of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty?
  • (19) None of the signatories holds a particularly significant position in the party.
  • (20) Signatories already supporting the open letter include professors and lecturers across Australia, but also academics in the UK and US.

Signer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who signs or subscribes his name; as, a memorial with a hundred signers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Caveats for future translations include the necessity for constant attention to translation refinements and for utilizing native ASL users with appropriate training in psychology as signers.
  • (2) Talk rarely tends this way with an actor who’s found a good slot, more inclined as a result to play safe and spray out buttery praise in all directions, at co-stars, crew, studios, cheque-signers.
  • (3) The unit that attacked the BP camp at Ein Amenas in Algeria was known in Arabic as “the signers in blood”.
  • (4) We had the unique opportunity to study a hearing signer proficient in American sign language (ASL), during the left intracarotid injection of a barbiturate (the Wada test), and before and after a right temporal lobectomy.
  • (5) The pay-per-view take-up is also expected to delight the promoters, Golden Boy Promotions and Mayweather Promotions, and the TV cheque-signers, Showtime, when they sit down to count the booty.
  • (6) At the same time, the international community seems driven by wanting to be seen as the biggest, most visible donor; the most prolific signer of blank cheques.
  • (7) A comparative analysis of the time variables in the production of speech and sign reveals that signers modify their global physical rate primarily by altering the time they spend articulating, whereas speakers do so by chaning the time they spend pausing.
  • (8) Suprasegmental changes in speaker-signers' speech may be an important component of the results obtained in key-word-sign programs.
  • (9) It was successful from our point of view.” Despite the concerns raised about payments from the match, and speculation that they involved additional money from Qatar, Signer said Garcia never approached Swiss Mideast at all.
  • (10) A sign decision task, in which deaf signers made a decision about the number of hands required to form a particular sign of American Sign Language (ASL), revealed significant facilitation by repetition among signs that share a base morpheme.
  • (11) Results of this study demonstrate an insignificant signer effect and underscore the potential utility and practicality of future ASL translations of self-report tests for use with deaf individuals.
  • (12) The results suggest that native signers process lexical structural automatically, such that they can attend to and remember lexical and sentential meaning.
  • (13) The linguistic expressions represent unfamiliar facial expression for the hearing subjects whereas they serve as meaningful linguistic emblems for deaf signers.
  • (14) Results of Experiment 1 indicated that subjects exposed to ASL in late childhood were not as sensitive to morphological complexity as native signers, but this result was not replicated in Experiment 2.
  • (15) Two Azospirillum brasilense loci that correct Rhizobium meliloti exoB and exoC mutants for exopolysaccharide (EPS) synthesis have been identified previously (K. W. Michiels, J. Vanderleyden, A. P. Van Gool, E. R. Signer, J.
  • (16) Robo-signers are individuals whose signatures are wrongfully used to automatically authenticate thousands of mortgage documents that they haven’t read and are in some cases falsely notarized.
  • (17) To determine whether such loci would be identified for syllables in American Sign Language, deaf native signers, hearing native signers, and hearing subjects unfamiliar with sign language were asked to tap to videotaped signed stimuli.
  • (18) Four experiments compared rapid temporal analysis in deaf signers and hearing subjects at three different levels: sensation, perception, and memory.
  • (19) More important in terms of language and its users is the significance of iconicity for deaf signers themselves.
  • (20) The parents were intermediate-level signers, motivated to use SEE 2.

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