signification

Example Sentences

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“If you keep for a signification amount of time capacity that you don’t use, you put yourself in trouble. That’s what experience shows. So you need to continually adjust your capacity to your needs.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 5, 2023

Saussure held that there were structural laws that define how linguistic signification operated; the semiotics of Saussure and Pierce were the means of discovering these laws.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

The apartment signs of L.A. announce location through flair, decadence, strangeness, absurdity, signification.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2022

Very few platinum-level artists have legacies so oversaturated with signification as the rechristened Chicks’.

From Slate • Jul. 17, 2020

This flag possesses not only the signification the "black flag" does with Europeans, but must never be carried in retreat before an enemy, nothing but death being permitted to arrest its progress.

From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Lindley, Augustus F.