signalize

American  

[sig-nl-ahyz] / ˈsɪg nlˌaɪz /

especially British, signalise

verb (used with object)

signalized, signalizing

1. to make notable or conspicuous.

2. to point out or indicate particularly.

3. to equip (a particular traffic crossing or an entire transportation route) with traffic signals.

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signalize British  

/ ˈsɪɡnəˌlaɪz /

verb

1. to make noteworthy or conspicuous

2. to point out carefully

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Other Word Forms

• signalization
  noun
• unsignalized
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of signalize

First recorded in 1645–55; signal + -ize

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

signalize signalized signalizing

To signalize the project, King Vittorio Emanuele presided over a sea festival at which a barge-load of night fireworks was touched off in the Bay of Naples.

From Time Magazine Archive

John Sharp Williams prunes the gardenias and oversees the cotton planting at his old Mississippi home, infrequently sallying forth to signalize some state occasion with his mellifluency.

From Time Magazine Archive

Producer Calvin Kuhl used the Faulkner play to signalize the switch of the Video Theater from Mondays to Thursdays.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was to signalize the most famed of Miss Peck's exploits that the Peruvian Government in 1908 named the northern peak of Mount Huascaran Cumbre Ana Peck.

From Time Magazine Archive

The late quiet yeomanry armed themselves and scoured the country in small parties to seize on stragglers, and the militia began to signalize themselves in voluntary skirmishes with regular troops.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving

“We did find an increase in fatal crashes at signalized intersections in these cities after the cameras were turned off.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

The researchers described Broad Street, a five-lane arterial road, as "a daunting road to cross with or without a signal in Hilltop, and distances to signalized crossing areas can be several blocks."

From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2024

Tracking how frequently red-light turns factor into pedestrian or bicyclist injuries is difficult because they are often coded as “failure to yield,” which encompasses more than just signalized intersections.

From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2023

But overall, the Federal Highway Administration has found roundabouts cause fewer emissions compared to signalized intersections, and said the difference can be “significant.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2021

George Grenville as First Lord of the Treasury, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, signalized his period of administration by the Stamp Act.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by James H. Stark

If asked to state reasons for the President of the U. S. signalizing the 1928 Congress by a visit and speech, Dr. Rowe might have explained in effect as follows: "Caesar."

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead of exaggerating into treason whatever was susceptible of unfavourable interpretation, he turned the very conspiracies that were formed against him into opportunities of signalizing his clemency.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various

He has frequent opportunities of signalizing himself in a small way.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 by Various

I am now signalizing the ships at Plymouth to join me; but, I rather doubt their ability to get to sea.

From The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol II. With A Supplement Of Interesting Letters By Distinguished Characters by Horatio Nelson

The balloons, however, as a more novel attempt for distant signalizing, or, rather, intercommunication, were a subject of deep interest.

From Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 by Sherard Osborn

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