Signed vs Signature what difference
what is difference between Signed and Signature
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /saɪnd/
Adjective
signed (not comparable)
- Having a signature; endorsed.
- The signed check could be cashed.
- (mathematics, computer science) Having both positive and negative varieties.
- It wasn’t until they tried to subtract 3 from 1 that the elementary school students realized they needed signed numbers.
- (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 [1]
- Turn left on poorly signed Highway 292 and proceed on this winding road for about 12 miles.
- 2013: Backpacking Wyoming: From Towering Granite Peaks to Steaming Geyser Basins, Wilderness Press, p. 64 [1]
Antonyms
- unsigned
Hyponyms
- self-signed
Translations
Verb
signed
- simple past tense and past participle of sign
Anagrams
- Edgins, deigns, design, dinges, gnides, nidges, sdeign, singed
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French signature, or from Medieval Latin signatura, future active periphrastic of verb signare (“to sign”) from signum (“sign”), + -tura, feminine of -turus, future active periphrastic suffix.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɪɡnətʃə(r)/, /ˈsɪɡnɪtʃə(r)/
- (US) enPR: sĭg′nəchər, sĭg′nĭchər, IPA(key): /ˈsɪɡnətʃɚ/, /ˈsɪɡnɪtʃɚ/
Noun
signature (plural signatures)
- A person’s name, written by that person, used as identification or to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract.
- An act of signing one’s name; an act of producing a signature.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:signature.
- (medicine) The part of a doctor’s prescription containing directions for the patient.
- (music) Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo, composed of the key signature and the time signature.
- (printing) A group of four (or a multiple of four) sheets printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book.
- (computing) A pattern used for matching the identity of a virus, the parameter types of a method, etc.
- (cryptography) Data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source.
- (figuratively) A mark or sign of implication.
- 1975, United States. Office of Noise Abatement and Control, First Report on Status and Progress of Noise Research and Control Programs in the Federal Government (volume 1, page 6-13)
- The TACOM Vehicle Signature Reduction program is concerned with reducing the noise signature detectability of military vehicles in combat.
- 1975, United States. Office of Noise Abatement and Control, First Report on Status and Progress of Noise Research and Control Programs in the Federal Government (volume 1, page 6-13)
- A dish that is characteristic of a particular chef.
- (mathematics) A tuple specifying the sign of coefficients in any diagonal form of a quadratic form.
- (medicine, obsolete) A resemblance between the external character of a disease and those of some physical agent, for instance, that existing between the red skin of scarlet fever and a red cloth; supposed to indicate this agent in the treatment of the disease.
- (Internet) Text (or images, etc.) appended to a user’s emails, newsgroup posts, forum posts, etc. as a way of adding a personal touch or including contact details.
- Synonyms: sig, siggy
Hyponyms
- biosignature
Derived terms
- signature-compatible
Translations
See also
- autograph
Adjective
signature (not generally comparable, comparative more signature, superlative most signature)
- Distinctive, characteristic, indicative of identity.
- 2001, Lawrence J. Vale, Sam Bass Warner, Imaging the city: continuing struggles and new directions,
- Consider Las Fallas of Valencia, Spain, arguably the most signature of signature ephemera.
- 2005, Paul Duchscherer, Linda Svendsen, Beyond the bungalow: grand homes in the arts & crafts tradition,
- Considered the most signature effect of the Tudor Revival style, half-timbering derived its distinctive […] .
- 2005, Brett Dawson, Tales from the 2004-05 Fighting Illini,
- But it was perhaps the most signature shot Williams ever made in an Illinois uniform, a bullying basket in which he used his power to pound Stoudamire, […] .
- 2005, CBS News website, Paul Winchell Dead At Age 82,
- He credited his wife, who is British, for giving him the inspiration for Tigger’s signature phrase: TTFN. TA-TA for now.
- 2001, Lawrence J. Vale, Sam Bass Warner, Imaging the city: continuing struggles and new directions,
Translations
References
- signature at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- antisurge, gauntries, sautering
French
Etymology
signer + -ture; cf. Medieval Latin signatura.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si.ɲa.tyʁ/
Noun
signature f (plural signatures)
- signature (a person’s name written in their own handwriting)
- désavouer sa signature
- the act of signing
- Le décret est à la signature.
Related terms
- signer
- signataire
Further reading
- “signature” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Participle
signātūre
- vocative masculine singular of signātūrus
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