When you sign your name in your own handwriting, that is your signature. Things you can put your signature on include checks, permission slips, letters, stays of execution, and declarations of independence.
A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal.
Noun
a distinguishing style; "this room needs a woman''s touch"
Noun
a sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book
Noun
your name written in your own handwriting
Noun
the sharps or flats that follow the clef and indicate the key
Noun
a melody used to identify a performer or a dance band or radio/tv program
v. t.
A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal.
v. t.
Especially, the name of any person, written with his
own hand, employed to signify that the writing which precedes accords
with his wishes or intentions; a sign manual; an autograph.
v. t.
An outward mark by which internal characteristics
were supposed to be indicated.
v. t.
A resemblance between the external characters of a
disease and those of some physical agent, for instance, that existing
between the red skin of scarlet fever and a red cloth; -- supposed to
indicate this agent in the treatment of the disease.
v. t.
The designation of the key (when not C major, or its
relative, A minor) by means of one or more sharps or flats at the
beginning of the staff, immediately after the clef, affecting all notes
of the same letter throughout the piece or movement. Each minor key has
the same signature as its relative major.
v. t.
A letter or figure placed at the bottom of the first
page of each sheet of a book or pamphlet, as a direction to the binder
in arranging and folding the sheets.
v. t.
The printed sheet so marked, or the form from which
it is printed; as, to reprint one or more signatures.
v. t.
That part of a prescription which contains the
directions to the patient. It is usually prefaced by S or Sig. (an
abbreviation for the Latin signa, imperative of signare to sign or
mark).
v. t.
To mark with, or as with, a signature or signatures.
Signature
The brain, being well furnished with various traces, signatures, and images.
The natural and indelible signature of God, which human souls . . . are supposed to be stamped with.2.
Some plants bear a very evident signature of their nature and use.4.
Signature
A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal.
To mark with, or as with, a signature or signatures.
Usage Examples
All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.
We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.
Art is the signature of civilizations.
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Other Usage ExamplesI don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.
A man's kiss is his signature.
From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.
The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.
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