signify
英 ['sɪgnɪfaɪ]
美 ['sɪɡnɪfaɪ]
- vt. 示す；暗示する；伏線を張る
- vi.重要である；重要である；内通者を装う
語源
signify 予言する、示す、表現する、示すsign、mark、signify、-fy、make。関連する単語の意味を導き出す。
英語の語源
- signify (v.)
- late 13c., "be a sign of, indicate, mean," from Old French signifier (12c.), from Latin significare "to make signs, show by signs, point out, express; mean, signify; foreshadow, portend," from significus (adj.), from signum "sign" (see sign (n.)) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious). Intransitive sense of "to be of importance" is attested from 1660s. Meaning "engage in mock-hostile banter" is American English black slang first recorded 1932.
...'signifying,' which in Harlemese means making a series of oblique remarks apparently addressed to no one in particular, but unmistakable in intention in such a close-knit circle. ["Down Beat," March 7, 1968]
例文
- 1. The striped band round a policeman 's sleeve is to signify that he is on duty.
- 警察官の袖の腕章は勤務中であることを示している。
- 2.The UN flag was raised at the airport yesterday to signify that control had passed into its hands.
- 昨日空港に国連の旗が掲げられ、制御権が国連に移管されたことを示しています。
- 3.State ownership in itself does not signify collective control.
- 国のすべてそのものが集団制御を意味するわけではない。
- 4.It doesn 't signify ，so you needn 't worry about it.
- これはどうでもいい、あなたは心配する必要はありません.
- 5.Do dark clouds signify rain？
- 雨雲が降っているかどうか。
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