signifies

verb

present tense third-person singular of signify
1
as in means
to be of importance never mind, as the color of the room doesn't signify in the least

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2
as in implies
to communicate or convey (as an idea) to the mind the symbol failed to signify anything to me—until I realized that it was upside down

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3
as in indicates
to serve as a sign or symptom of the opening of the new mall signifies the city's overdue emergence from economic depression

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Recent Examples of signifies Part of what Myha’la’s wink signifies is how much Celebrity Traitors UK is about, well, being a celebrity. — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2026 The appointment signifies a new chapter for Zankov, formalizing a partnership that has already played a pivotal role in the development of his business over the past two years. — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026 One such product is Biodance’s Bio-Collagen mask, which applies like your average milky white sheet mask but turns clear after a few hours; the opacity change signifies that the ingredients have been absorbed by the skin. — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2026 That new reticence signifies a change from when she was paid to share her life on TV. — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 23 Sep. 2026 Connecting with family history For Kassidy Angelo, Gioia’s co-founder and managing director, La Sponda signifies not only a new frontier for the company but also a chance to revisit her family’s heritage. — Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2026 Prima Facie signifies a legal claim that has sufficient evidence to proceed to trial or judgment. — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2026 This $20 million contract signifies a broader shift from proving that autonomy works to delivering an operational breaching package that soldiers can employ. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026 This signifies the semiconductor industry’s broader embrace of high NA EUV photolithography technology that can cost up to $400 million per machine and is only provided by the Dutch technology company ASML, Bloomberg reports. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 8 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for signifies
  1. means
  2. implies
  3. indicates
  4. matters
  5. denotes
  6. weighs
Verb
  • Price optimization means choosing prices that advance business goals, such as increasing profits, attracting shoppers or clearing unsold goods.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
  • This defense needs to find a way to make quarterbacks uncomfortable without becoming blitz crazy, and that means Chop Robinson, Josh Uche and Malik Herring must step up and win more of their 1-on-1 assignments.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of means
Verb
  • The finding implies that methanol masers are a common product of all planet-forming discs and therefore are produced by processes that are universal in star- and planet-birth, regardless of the protostar's mass.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Oct. 2026
  • This implies demand of roughly 120 million metric tons per year of green ammonia by mid-century.
    — Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of implies
Verb
  • Civello also noted social media data that indicates Vans is experiencing a brand resurgence.
    — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Data from Gas Infrastructure Europe indicates current storage levels stand at roughly 73%, significantly beneath the five-year average of 89%.
    — , CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of indicates
Verb
  • But the detail that matters most happens in a small testing room in Norwell.
    — Matt Alt, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The common concern is what matters in the scene, and where the audience should be as that part of the story unfolds.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of matters
Verb
  • But the term denotes highly advanced artificial intelligence that could surpass human thought, not the category of AI — an already nebulous term — as a whole.
    — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The position of the sun denotes the time zone, and the mountain range is a graph of price.
    — Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of denotes
Verb
  • Each superconducting magnet measures about 20 feet long and weighs more than 10,000 pounds.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Someone the brand has had no way to reach reads it, checks the coverage, weighs the cost and the patient leaves with the medicine that was prescribed—or with something else entirely.
    — Harshit Jain, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
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