The driver could not distinguish the signal in the fog.
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Signal
//ˈsɪɡnəl//
Synonyms for "signal" (399 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (80)
signaid to navigationalarmalertalgolalphabetic dataalphanumeric codeamber lightangular dataannounceappallingarrestingassemblerastonishingbadgebalefirebannerbeaconbeacon firebeam
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beat signalbeat the drumbeckonbellbell buoybespeakbinary digitbinary scalebinary systembitblinkblinkerblipsblue peterbouncebouncesbroad hintbroadcastbugbuoybuzzbytecaution lightcelebratedcentralchannelcharactercharacteristiccluecobolcommand pulsescommandscommunicatecommunicationcommunication explosioncommunication theorycommunicationalcommunicationscompilercomputer codecomputer languagecomputer programconsequentialconspicuouscontrol signalscontrolled quantityconveycorrecting signalscrt spotcuedatadata retrievaldata storagedecodingdevicedifferentiadipdip the ensign
Strong matches (120)
displaydisseminatedistinctivedistinguisheddm displaydoppler signaldouble-dot displaydress shipearmarkechoecho signaledpegregiouselectronic data processingeminentencodingentropyerrorerror signalsesteemed
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estimableeventfulexceptionalexchange colorsextraordinaryfabulousfacsimilefamousfantasticfantasticalfeedback pulsesfeedback signalsfilm dataflagflag downflareflashfog bellfog signalfog whistlefoghornforeshadowformidablefortrangentle hintgesticulategestureget acrossget overgivegive a signalgive the nodgive wordglanceglimmerglimmeringgo lightgoadgong buoygreen lightguidehailhail and speakhalf-masthallmarkhand onheliographhexadecimal systemhigh signhinthoist a banneridiosyncrasyif signalillustriousim displayimageimpartimpetusimplicationimplyimportantimpressiveincitementincredibleindexindicantindicateindicationindicatorindividualinformationinformation explosioninformation theoryinklinginnuendoinput datainput quantityinsigniainsinuationinstructionsinternational alphabet flaginternational numeral pennantintimationkeynotekickleave wordleerlocal oscillator signallookmachine languagemagnetotelephonicmake a signmake a signalmake knownmark
Noun(1 words)
Related words (199)
markedmarker beaconmarvelousmeanmeasurememorablemessagemicrotelephonicmomentousmonotelephonicmotionmovementmultiple messagesnoblenodnoisenotablenotenoteworthynoticeable
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notifynudgenumeric dataoctal systemof markoscillograph dataout of the ordinaryoutput dataoutput quantityoutput signaloutstandingparachute flarepasspass alongpass onpeculiarpeculiarityperceivephototelegraphicpicturepilot flagpippipsplaypointedpokepolar datapolice whistleprestigiousprickprodprognosticateprominentpromptpropertypunch-card dataquarantine flagradar signalradioradio beaconradiotelegraphicraise a cryrandom datararereadingrectangular datared flagred lightredundancyreference quantityreflectionremarkablerememberablerenderrenownedreportrepresentationrepresentativereputablereturnreturn signalrf echoesrocketroman candleruly englishsailing aidsalientsalutescentsealsemaphoresemaphore flagsemaphore telegraphsendsend wordsensationalshareshare withsigilsignal beaconsignal bellsignal displaysignal firesignal flagsignal gongsignal gunsignal lampsignal lightsignal mastsignal postsignal rocketsignal shotsignal sirensignal towersignalizesignalssignaturesignificantsignificativesignifysingle messagessingularsirensoundsound an alarmsound the trumpetspar buoyspeakspecialspoorspotspurstampstimulusstop lightstrikingsuggestionsuperiorsure signsuspicionsymptomtarget imagetelecommunicationaltelegraphictelephonictelephotographicteletypetelltellingtelltaletelltale signthe nodthe winkthermotelephonictocsintouchtracetracktraffic lighttraffic signaltraittransfertransmittransmitter signaluncommonunforgettableunfurl a flaguniqueunorganized dataunusualvideo signalvisible-speech datawatch firewavewave a flagwave the handweightywhisperwhistlewhite flagwigwagwigwag flagwinkwirelesswirephotowonderfulyellow flag
Adjective(4 words)
Noun(4 words)
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10 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
81 entriesShowing 16 of 81 words.
has context
3 entriesis a
4 entriesrelated to
39 entriesShowing 16 of 39 words.
similar
2 entriesTranslations
204 translations across 69 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- sinjal noun (sign made to give notice)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σημειόω verb (to indicate)
Arabic
1 entries- إِشَارَة noun (sign made to give notice)
Armenian
2 entries- ազդակ noun (sign made to give notice)
- ազդանշան noun (sign made to give notice)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- işarə noun (sign made to give notice)
- siqnal noun (sign made to give notice)
Belarusian
4 entries- знак noun (sign made to give notice)
- сыгна́л noun (sign made to give notice)
- сігна́л noun (sign made to give notice)
- сігналізава́ць verb (to indicate)
Bengali
2 entries- ইশারা noun (sign made to give notice)
- সংকেত noun (sign made to give notice)
Bulgarian
4 entries- знак noun (foreshadowing)
- семафо́р noun (device to give indication)
- сигна́л noun (sign made to give notice)
- сигна́л noun (telecommunication: electromagnetic action that conveys information)
Burmese
1 entries- လက္ခဏာ noun (sign made to give notice)
Catalan
3 entries- senyal noun (sign made to give notice)
- senyal noun (device to give indication)
- senyal noun (telecommunication: electromagnetic action that conveys information)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 信号 noun (telecommunication: electromagnetic action that conveys information)
- 信號 /信号 noun (sign made to give notice)
- 訊號 /讯号 noun (sign made to give notice)
Czech
3 entries- signál noun (sign made to give notice)
- signál noun (device to give indication)
- znamení noun (sign made to give notice)
Danish
4 entries- signal noun (sign made to give notice)
- signal noun (device to give indication)
- signal noun (telecommunication: electromagnetic action that conveys information)
- give signal verb (to indicate)
Dari
1 entries- اِشَارَه noun (sign made to give notice)
Dutch
4 entries- sein noun (sign made to give notice)
- sein noun (device to give indication)
- signaal noun (sign made to give notice)
- signaal noun (telecommunication: electromagnetic action that conveys information)
Esperanto
3 entries- signalo noun (sign made to give notice)
- signalo noun (telecommunication: electromagnetic action that conveys information)
- signalo noun (action, change or process to convey information)
Estonian
1 entries- signaal noun (sign made to give notice)
Finnish
4 entries- enne noun (foreshadowing)
- ennusmerkki noun (foreshadowing)
- merkinantolaite noun (device to give indication)
- merkki noun (sign made to give notice)
French
4 entries- signal noun (sign made to give notice)
- signal noun (device to give indication)
- signal noun (computing: simple interprocess communication)
- signaler verb (to indicate)
Galician
3 entries- sinal noun (sign made to give notice)
- sinal noun (device to give indication)
- sinal noun (telecommunication: electromagnetic action that conveys information)
Georgian
1 entries- სიგნალი noun (sign made to give notice)
German
3 entries- Signal noun (sign made to give notice)
- Signal noun (device to give indication)
- signalisieren verb (to indicate)
Greek
1 entries- σήμα noun (sign made to give notice)
Hebrew
2 entries- אוֹת noun (sign made to give notice)
- סִיגְנָל noun (sign made to give notice)
Hindi
2 entries- इशारा noun (sign made to give notice)
- संकेत noun (sign made to give notice)
Hungarian
4 entries- index noun (sign made to give notice)
- jel noun (sign made to give notice)
- jel noun (telecommunication: electromagnetic action that conveys information)
- jeladás noun (sign made to give notice)
Icelandic
1 entries- merki noun (sign made to give notice)
Indonesian
4 entries- anggai noun (sign made to give notice)
- isyarat noun (sign made to give notice)
- isyarat noun (useful information as opposed to noise)
- padah noun (foreshadowing)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- اِشارِه noun (sign made to give notice)
- سیگْنال noun (sign made to give notice)
Italian
4 entries- campo noun (telecommunication: electromagnetic action that conveys information)
- segnale noun (sign made to give notice)
- segnale noun (device to give indication)
- segnale noun (telecommunication: electromagnetic action that conveys information)
Japanese
4 entries- シグナル noun (sign made to give notice)
- 信号 noun (sign made to give notice)
- 合図 noun (sign made to give notice)
- 電波 noun (telecommunication: electromagnetic action that conveys information)
Kazakh
1 entries- сигнал noun (sign made to give notice)
Khmer
3 entries- តម្រុយ noun (sign made to give notice)
- សង្កេត noun (sign made to give notice)
- សញ្ញា noun (sign made to give notice)
Korean
3 entries- 시그널 noun (sign made to give notice)
- 신호 noun (sign made to give notice)
- 전파 noun (telecommunication: electromagnetic action that conveys information)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- сигнал noun (sign made to give notice)
Lao
1 entries- ສັນຍານ noun (sign made to give notice)
Latvian
1 entries- signāls noun (sign made to give notice)
Lithuanian
2 entries- signalas noun (sign made to give notice)
- signalizuoti verb (to indicate)
Macedonian
1 entries- сигнал noun (sign made to give notice)
Malay
1 entries- isyarat noun (sign made to give notice)
Mongolian
2 entries- дохио noun (sign made to give notice)
- ᠳᠣᠬᠢᠶᠠ noun (sign made to give notice)
Māori
4 entries- hū verb (to indicate)
- rota verb (to indicate)
- rotarota verb (to indicate)
- whakapua verb (to indicate)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- sînyal noun (sign made to give notice)
- îşaret noun (sign made to give notice)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- signal noun (sign made to give notice)
- signal noun (device to give indication)
- signal noun (telecommunication: electromagnetic action that conveys information)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- signal noun (sign made to give notice)
- signal noun (device to give indication)
- signal noun (telecommunication: electromagnetic action that conveys information)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- اشارت noun (sign made to give notice)
Pashto
3 entries- اشاره noun (sign made to give notice)
- زيګنال noun (sign made to give notice)
- سيګنل noun (sign made to give notice)
Polish
4 entries- sygnał noun (sign made to give notice)
- sygnał noun (device to give indication)
- sygnalizować verb (to indicate)
- zasygnalizować verb (to indicate)
Portuguese
4 entries- rede noun (telecommunication: electromagnetic action that conveys information)
- sinal noun (sign made to give notice)
- sinal noun (device to give indication)
- sinal noun (telecommunication: electromagnetic action that conveys information)
Romanian
4 entries- semnal noun (sign made to give notice)
- semnal noun (telecommunication: electromagnetic action that conveys information)
- semnal indicator noun (device to give indication)
- semnalizator noun (device to give indication)
Russian
4 entries- знак noun (sign made to give notice)
- знак noun (foreshadowing)
- семафо́р noun (device to give indication)
- сигна́л noun (sign made to give notice)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- sìgnāl noun (sign made to give notice)
- сѝгна̄л noun (sign made to give notice)
Sicilian
3 entries- nnicari verb (to indicate)
- sincalijari verb (to indicate)
- sinnari verb (to indicate)
Slovak
2 entries- signál noun (sign made to give notice)
- znamenie noun (sign made to give notice)
Slovene
1 entries- signal noun (sign made to give notice)
Spanish
4 entries- señal noun (sign made to give notice)
- señal noun (device to give indication)
- señal noun (telecommunication: electromagnetic action that conveys information)
- señal noun (action, change or process to convey information)
Swahili
1 entries- ishara noun (sign made to give notice)
Swedish
3 entries- signal noun (sign made to give notice)
- signal noun (device to give indication)
- signal noun (telecommunication: electromagnetic action that conveys information)
Tajik
3 entries- ишора noun (sign made to give notice)
- ишорат noun (sign made to give notice)
- сигнал noun (sign made to give notice)
Telugu
2 entries- సంకేతం noun (sign made to give notice)
- సంజ్ఞ noun (sign made to give notice)
Thai
1 entries- สัญญาณ noun (sign made to give notice)
Turkish
3 entries- işaret noun (sign made to give notice)
- sinyal noun (sign made to give notice)
- sinyal noun (telecommunication: electromagnetic action that conveys information)
Turkmen
2 entries- signal noun (sign made to give notice)
- yşarat noun (sign made to give notice)
Ukrainian
4 entries- знак noun (sign made to give notice)
- сигна́л noun (sign made to give notice)
- просигналізува́ти verb (to indicate)
- сигналізува́ти verb (to indicate)
Urdu
1 entries- اِشارَہ noun (sign made to give notice)
Uyghur
2 entries- ئىشارەت noun (sign made to give notice)
- سىگنال noun (sign made to give notice)
Uzbek
2 entries- ishora noun (sign made to give notice)
- signal noun (sign made to give notice)
Vietnamese
2 entries- tín hiệu noun (sign made to give notice)
- tín hiệu noun (telecommunication: electromagnetic action that conveys information)
Yiddish
1 entries- סיגנאַל noun (sign made to give notice)
Sample sentences
26 total sentences available.
Drivers have to pay attention to the traffic signal.
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The violinist waits for the signal to play.
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The taxi stopped dead at the traffic signal.
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