Signifier

Signifier

A pattern of sense impressions, such as a series of sounds or written symbols, that expresses a meaning. See phoneme, morpheme, semiotics.

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signifier

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A pattern of sense impressions, such as a series of sounds or written symbols, that expresses a meaning. See phoneme, morpheme, semiotics.

signified

Language; General language

For Saussure, the signified was one of the two parts of the sign (which was indivisible except for analytical purposes). Saussure's signified is the mental concept represented ...

signifier

Language; General language

For Saussure, this was one of the two parts of the sign (which was indivisible except for analytical purposes). In the Saussurean tradition, the signifier is the form which a ...

signified

Philosophy; General philosophy

The entity, state of affairs, meaning, or concepts referred to by a sign. For example, the word 'Socrates' refers to an actual person (the signified). The signified is often ...

signifier

Philosophy; General philosophy

A sign that conveys meaning. For example the word 'red' is a signifier for a color. Signifiers are contrasted with the “signified.”

signify

Language; Dictionaries

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 ...

band

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A line or separation in the presentation of an image; see drop out. Also, a strip or stripe of color; see illustration. Also, a track or channel, as audio segment or computer ...

queue

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A sequence of ordered items awaiting processing, especially for some electronic action in a computer system. See pagination, gang.

paper

Printing & publishing; Publishing

An absorbent material made from plant pulp or fibrous substances, usually in thin sheets or leaves, dyed or bleached to a desired hue, pressed or polished into a desired texture, ...

language

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Communication using a formalized system of arbitrary vocal sounds, orthographic symbols and signs, or nonverbal gestures in conventional ways with conventional meanings, such as ...

blanket

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Rubber-coated pad, mounted on a cylinder of an offset press, that receives the inked image from the plate, and transfers it to the surface to be printed by the impression ...

hypertext markup language (HTML)

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The language format used to develop and write document pages on the World Wide Web. Webpages are built with HTML codes or tags (qv) embedded into the text. HTML defines the ...

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