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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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
Soon the Duke will step within, open Parliament, signalize that the world has a new Great Capital.
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
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
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
“Just imagine a post-Sandy, post-Katrina or post-Andrew world where recovery funds were put to work building resilient, sustainable modern roundabouts instead of rebuilding fragile, polluting signalized intersections,” Mr. Sides, the traffic engineer, said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2021
The general interest was 815 signalized by an International Congress held in London in 1907.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
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
On the first appearance of this dreadful and destructive calamity, the parties more particularly and personally engaged, are animated with an enthusiastic ardour, to have an opportunity of signalizing themselves in it.
From Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact by Amelia Stratton Comfield
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
Europe hailed the establishment of the American embargo as signalizing a "real blockade" against Germany.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds
Human love connects by invisible ties, and this signalizing from afar is a sign of a thought in common, of communication of feeling and participation of interest, notwithstanding all separation by space.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach
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