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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Origin of signalize
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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
Producer Calvin Kuhl used the Faulkner play to signalize the switch of the Video Theater from Mondays to Thursdays.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later on, after having stated that most verbs ending in -ize are "nearly all unnecessary and ill-formed," the text pops up with trivializing, signalize, actualize.
From Time Magazine Archive
Piece de resistance of Orchestra Conductor Meyer Davis' repertoire was "Moonlight on the Santa Clara," which he composed himself and dedicated to Allan Hoover to signalize the occasion.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ladies did their best to signalize what the Cardinal was and what he represented, by reverences which a posture-master might have envied and certainly could not have surpassed.
From Memoirs of Life and Literature by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock
To test its effectiveness, researchers collected data over the course of three weeks in March 2022 from each of Birmingham's 34 signalized intersections -- most of which are fixed-time systems.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 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
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
“You don’t want to put more apartments right next to a freeway. You have a major signalized intersection, incredible traffic counts, visibility from the freeway. I don’t see that happening.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2018
The next instant, however, he became aware that in some mysterious way these noises signalized his rescue from a terrible situation.
From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Allen Chapman
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
But it is not my purpose to emphasize them as specially signalizing the south.
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
Abdu’l-Bahá, through His own pen, acclaimed as signalizing the dawn of the Most Great Peace, though now lying in the dust, bitterly reproach a heedless generation for having so cruelly abandoned them.
From The Advent of Divine Justice by Shoghi Effendi
While thus signalizing his disinterested intrepidity, he fell himself into the hands of the Indians.
From The First White Man of the West Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'l. Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky; Interspersed with Incidents in the Early Annals of the Country. by Timothy Flint
Not one came, moreover, without her little pipkin of pennyroyal, sage, balm, or other herb-tea, delighted at an opportunity of signalizing her kindness and her doctorship.
From Tales of a Traveller by Washington Irving
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