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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Soon the Duke will step within, open Parliament, signalize that the world has a new Great Capital.
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
Nationwide rallies and memorial services would signalize their Week, beginning Oct.
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
He was willing to signalize it by the magnificence of a Funeral Pomp, and for this purpose he himself issued the necessary Orders.
Caltrans officials hope to be able to fully open the northbound lane near Rocky Creek Bridge as soon as possible, with signalized, one-lane traffic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
On one part of Sullivant Avenue in the Hilltop, there was an average of 418 meters between signalized intersections -- one-fourth of a mile.
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
Sidewalks and signalized pedestrian crossings, traffic calming in neighborhoods.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2017
All its members who had been of the party of Philip I. signalized themselves by their hatred against the Inquisition.
From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Llorente, Juan Antonio
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
The marvelous accomplishments signalizing the rise and establishment of the Administrative Order of the Faith in Latin America have been eclipsed.
From Messages to the Bahá’í World: 1950–1957 by Shoghi Effendi
He has frequent opportunities of signalizing himself in a small way.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 by Various
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
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