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
Other Word Forms
- signalization noun
- unsignalized adjective
Etymology
Origin of signalize
Example Sentences
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Ray Atherton, Charg� d'Affaires of the U. S. Embassy in London, helped signalize the beginning of the Dawesian regime by saying he would name his newborn daughter Helen Maria, after the most widely publicized expletive.
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
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
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
To reward those who had perished before his coming, many moreover of those that slept in the dust would awaken, and the general resurrection of the dead would signalize the approach of the millennium.
From Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses by Adler, Felix
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