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Signify vs. Symbolize — What's the Difference?

Signify vs. Symbolize — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Signify and Symbolize

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Signify

Signify is the fourth studio album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree. It was released in September 1996 and later re-released in 2003 with a second disc of demos, which had previously been released on the b-side cassette tape Insignificance, and a third time, on vinyl, on 9 May 2011.

Symbolize

To serve as a symbol of
"Munich, the 1938 Hitler-Chamberlain meeting that now symbolizes the idea of appeasement" (Jonathan Alter).

Signify

To denote; mean
A red traffic light signifies that traffic must stop.

Symbolize

To represent or identify by a symbol.

Signify

To be a sign or indication of; suggest or imply
The test results will signify how serious the problem is. The surge in housing starts signifies an upturn in the economy.
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Symbolize

To use symbols.

Signify

To make known, as with a sign or word
He signified his disagreement with a frown.

Symbolize

(transitive) To be symbolic of; to represent.

Signify

To have meaning or importance.

Symbolize

(intransitive) To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.

Signify

(Slang) To exchange humorous insults in a verbal game.

Symbolize

To resemble each other in qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.

Signify

To create a sign out of something.

Symbolize

To hold the same faith; to agree.

Signify

To give (something) a meaning or an importance. en

Symbolize

To have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.
The pleasing of color symbolizeth with the pleasing of any single tone to the ear; but the pleasing of order doth symbolize with harmony.
They both symbolize in this, that they love to look upon themselves through multiplying glasses.

Signify

To show one’s intentions with a sign etc.; to indicate, announce.

Symbolize

To hold the same faith; to agree.
The believers in pretended miracles have always previously symbolized with the performers of them.

Signify

To mean; to betoken.

Symbolize

To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.

Signify

To make a difference; to matter (in negative or interrogative expressions).

Symbolize

To make to agree in properties or qualities.

Signify

To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to express; as, a signified his desire to be present.
I 'll to the king; and signify to himThat thus I have resign'd my charge to you.
The government should signify to the Protestants of Ireland that want of silver is not to be remedied.

Symbolize

To make representative of something; to regard or treat as symbolic.

Signify

To mean; to import; to denote; to betoken.
He bade her tell him what it signified.
A taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.

Symbolize

To represent by a symbol or symbols.

Signify

Denote or connote;
`maison' means `house' in French
An example sentence would show what this word means

Symbolize

Express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol;
What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?

Signify

Convey or express a meaning;
These words mean nothing to me!
What does his strange behavior signify?

Symbolize

Represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols;
The poet symbolizes love in this poem
These painters believed that artists should symbolize

Signify

Make known with a word or signal;
He signified his wish to pay the bill for our meal

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