SIG
abbreviation
SIG
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sig.
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American
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signal.
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signature.
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signor. Also Sig.
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signore; signori. Also Sig.
Sig.
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American
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Sig.
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American
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Sig.
1
British
abbreviation
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(in prescriptions) signā
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(in prescriptions) signature
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signor
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signore
sig.
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Etymology
Origin of Sig.3
< Latin signā; See signa
Origin of Sig.4
From the Latin word signētur
Example Sentences
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She was armed, like many people in Montana, and carried a 9mm SIG Sauer in her handbag.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
SIG, the electricity company which owns and runs the fountain, has reportedly said it will file a complaint against the man for trespassing.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2023
SIG Sauer has sold the P320 to hundreds of thousands of civilians and more than a thousand law enforcement outfits across the nation.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023
Deloitte and Manning admitted two breaches in relation to the audit of supplier rebates - incentives paid to SIG by its suppliers - and cash, the FRC said.
From Reuters ● Dec. 22, 2022
Outdoor life —————— CompuServe's Great Outdoors SIG is for those preferring nature for the computer screen.
From The Online World by De Presno, Odd
The fragment of the seventh book 'Of Mutability' first appears in this edition with head-title at sig. 2H 4.
From Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge by Greg, W. W.
The first sylb. of this word is from gunnr, war, a combat; to increase, to enlarge; thra sig. grief, calamity; and thro, a cavity, a fosse.
From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson
At sig. 2G1 begins 'A Briefe Index, explaining most of the hardest words', preceding the 'History of Judith'.
From Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge by Greg, W. W.
As the name of a dwarf, the latter sig. would be more appropriate.
From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson
Alfr, an elf, prob. sig. a wolf, a serpent.
From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson
The last leaf of Sig. g is occupied by a series of Advertisements of Works just Published by John Murray.
From A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow by Wise, Thomas James
Sir Sig. _thrusts out his head to hearken, hears no body, and advances.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Summers, Montague
Sig. 2K 5 appears in duplicate; the first is presumably intended as a cancel though no alteration is apparent.
From Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge by Greg, W. W.
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