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  • 1Sign of the Cross — • A term applied to various manual acts, liturgical or devotional in character, which have this at least in common: that by the gesture of tracing two lines intersecting at right angles they indicate symbolically the figure of Christ s cross… …

    Catholic encyclopedia

  • 2Sign language — Two men and a woman signing. A sign language (also signed language) is a language which, instead of acoustically conveyed sound patterns, uses visually transmitted sign patterns (manual communication, body language) to convey meaning… …

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  • 3sign — sign1 W2S3 [saın] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(gives information)¦ 2¦(shows something is true)¦ 3¦(movement or sound)¦ 4¦(symbol)¦ 5¦(star sign)¦ 6¦(language)¦ 7 there is no sign of somebody/something 8 sign of life 9 sign of the times …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 4Sign of the horns — A demonstration of the Sign of the Horns The sign of the horns is a hand gesture with a variety of meanings and uses in various cultures. It is formed by extending the index and little fingers while holding the middle and ring fingers down with… …

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  • 5sign — sign1 [ saın ] noun *** ▸ 1 piece of evidence ▸ 2 something with words/pictures ▸ 3 movement/sound ▸ 4 written symbol ▸ 5 star sign ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) count or uncount a piece of evidence that something is happening or that something exists:… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 6Sign convention — In physics, a sign convention is a choice of the physical significance of signs (plus or minus) for a set of quantities, in a case where the choice of sign is arbitrary. Arbitrary here means that the same physical system can be correctly… …

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  • 7sign —    by John Lechte   Marx developed a political economy based on a productivist and materialist metaphysic. He argued that the world of work and labour power were the key elements in understanding the fetishism of the commodity form in bourgeois… …

    The Baudrillard dictionary

  • 8Sign, toe — An important neurologic test based upon what the toes do when the sole of the foot is stimulated. If the big toe goes up, that may mean trouble. The toe sign, also called the Babinski reflex, is obtained by stimulating the external portion (the… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 9Sign function — In mathematics, the sign function is a mathematical function that extracts the sign of a real number. To avoid confusion with the sine function, this function is often called the signum function (after the Latin form of sign ).In mathematical… …

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  • 10Sign name — In Deaf culture and sign language, a sign name is a special sign that is used to uniquely identify a person, just like a name. There are some special cultural rules around sign names; for example, they must be agreed upon by you and people in the …

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