signalize

American  

[sig-nl-ahyz] / ˈsɪg nlˌaɪz /

especially British, signalise

verb (used with object)

signalized, signalizing

1. to make notable or conspicuous.

2. to point out or indicate particularly.

3. to equip (a particular traffic crossing or an entire transportation route) with traffic signals.

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signalize British  

/ ˈsɪɡnəˌlaɪz /

verb

1. to make noteworthy or conspicuous

2. to point out carefully

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Other Word Forms

• signalization
  noun
• unsignalized
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of signalize

First recorded in 1645–55; signal + -ize

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

signalize signalized signalizing

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

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

Producer Calvin Kuhl used the Faulkner play to signalize the switch of the Video Theater from Mondays to Thursdays.

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

I have a presentiment that I shall signalize myself by some splendid action, and that I shall gain the friendship of the monarch who holds that vast empire under his sway.

From The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' by Julia Pardoe

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

Baker said that could change due to the court ruling and expectations that the federal board reviewing public right-of-way issues will eventually require APS at most new or rebuilt signalized intersections nationwide.

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

He signalized himself by a powerful speech in opposition to the bill of attainder against Wolsey which had already passed the Lords.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 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

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 Charles Dudley Warner

The balloons, however, as a more novel attempt for distant signalizing, or, rather, intercommunication, were a subject of deep interest.

From Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 by Sherard Osborn

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

The two sieges allowed him some remarkable opportunities of signalizing his personal valor, which, in the improved state of the military art, can seldom be exerted by a prudent general.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Henry Hart Milman

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