signalize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to make notable or conspicuous.
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to point out or indicate particularly.
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to equip (a particular traffic crossing or an entire transportation route) with traffic signals.
verb
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to make noteworthy or conspicuous
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to point out carefully
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Etymology
Origin of signalize
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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
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
Nationwide rallies and memorial services would signalize their Week, beginning Oct.
From Time Magazine Archive
I congratulate you, my friend, on your brother's safety, and mean to signalize the event as it deserves.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton
“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
A federal judge there appointed an independent monitor and in December 2021 gave officials a decade to gradually make at least 10,000 of its approximately 13,000 signalized intersections accessible to blind pedestrians.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2023
Sidewalks and signalized pedestrian crossings, traffic calming in neighborhoods.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2017
The happy change of circumstances was signalized by David by two memorable acts, the one an act of justice, the other an act of generosity.
From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by Blaikie, William Garden
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
It therefore becomes a small part for us to perform in signalizing the honest writer and leader by giving him our unanimous support.
From Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro by Fowler, Charles H.
Why do you hesitate, Varenus? or what better opportunity of signalizing your valor do you seek?
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Warner, Charles Dudley
After passing some distance along the eastern side of a long dry sandbank, we were obliged again to anchor, both boats signalizing a depth of only two fathoms.
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
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