The signifier is linked to the signified. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Initially, the label signified that 100% of the wood used in a product was harvested by sustainable methods. From Wordnik.com. [FSC's 'Green' Label for Wood Products Gets Growing Pains] Reference
Let animal be the term signified by A, mortal by B, and immortal by C, and let man, whose definition is to be got, be signified by D. From Wordnik.com. [PRIOR ANALYTICS] Reference
Chaldea the name signified "servant of the Moon-god.". From Wordnik.com. [Patriarchal Palestine] Reference
Chatterton, when in truth the name signified boredom to him. From Wordnik.com. [Denzil Quarrier] Reference
His name signified "golden star" according to Anquetil du Perron. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
He was in hopes that my name signified a lifestyle and not just a name. From Wordnik.com. [wilberteets Diary Entry] Reference
The name signified "people who spoke a slightly different dialect," and the. From Wordnik.com. [The Country of the Neutrals (As Far As Comprised in the County of Elgin), From Champlain to Talbot] Reference
My Ethelwyn always brought the home gladness that her name signified with her. From Wordnik.com. [The Seaboard Parish Volume 1] Reference
I was astonished to hear them call each other bullies, till I found that the term signified "brothers.". From Wordnik.com. [Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler] Reference
Then followed the reading of the roll-call to which each man at the mention of his name signified his presence in the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution] Reference
Elohim a trace of the original Semitic polydemonism; he maintains that the word signified the sum of the divine beings that inhabited any given place. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
Alien food was not something we were defensive about, but the fact that it had its own term signified how small a part of our diet highly-processed food was. From Wordnik.com. [The Jew and the Carrot] Reference
Tammuz among the Sumerians appears to have been the “spirit” of the rivulets and waters of spring, and his name signified literally “the son of life” or. From Wordnik.com. [Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs] Reference
And should I eventually find the elusive Condors in some other TV show, I could say that, like the Titans, the new name signified the Hawks' new home and new identity. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
The word originally signified essence or physis nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas] Reference
In classic time this word signified also a beautiful woman. From Wordnik.com. [Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things] Reference
The signified is the content, whate - ver meaning we make out of what we meet and experience. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
George knew that the use of this expression signified especial bitterness on his father's part. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Writers] Reference
The last expression signified the union of Holland and part of Belgium under the House of Orange. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878] Reference
"From those people, I suppose?" said Mrs. Cross, who by this phrase signified Mr. and Mrs. Franks. From Wordnik.com. [Will Warburton] Reference
And of whom does Xenophon write, that he began with the examination of names, what each name signified?. From Wordnik.com. [The Discourses of Epictetus] Reference
The signified is the content, the meaning of the object; what we experience, think and feel when we interact with the artefact. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Shawnee name signified "bath of gold," in reference to the shining metallic hue of the stones under the flowing waters, and scarcely. From Wordnik.com. [The Sons of Allen: Together with a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio.] Reference
In Renaissance and Baroque Italy, this word signified the artistic imagination and the ability of an artist to conceive something new. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Meier’s Jubilee Church at eternallycool.net] Reference
Collet, for she was the wife of a man who "lived upright," which enigmatical expression signified that he had not to work for his living. From Wordnik.com. [All's Well Alice's Victory] Reference
He wanted them to indicate that she loved him; and any ambiguous phrase signified successively that she loved, laughed at, loathed, and loved him. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life] Reference
That call signified the introduction of mass-market commercial cellphone service, the equivalent of a moon shot for the telecommunications industry. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
At that time a warrior whose name signified "the divine conqueror" -- (the supposed Chinese invader) -- entered Japan, and assumed the control of its destinies. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
They were told what that signified, that is, what they thought in their humiliation, and that those who appeared elevated at the sides were not as yet in any humiliation. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Marvels of Astronomy] Reference
And though it were not then understood what these several gifts mystically signified, that is no difficulty; the same grace that instigated them to the deed, ordained the whole. From Wordnik.com. [Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew] Reference
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