different between cohesive vs signpost

English

Etymology

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Compare French cohésif.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??.hi?.s?v/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ko??hi?.s?v/

Adjective

cohesive (comparative more cohesive, superlative most cohesive)

1. Having cohesion.

Derived terms

• cohesively

Related terms

Translations

Noun

cohesive (plural cohesives)

1. A substance that provides cohesion

   • The thesaurus (Chapman, 1977) lists two pages of mechanical tools, two pages of joining functions, and a half page of adhesives, binders, and cohesives used to build or repair consumer goods.

   • Direct comparison meta-analysis showed that viscoadaptives lead to a lower loss in cell density compared with very low viscosity dispersives, and compared with super viscous cohesives.

2. (linguistics) A device used to establish cohesion within a text

   • The fourth of this group of cohesives is the anaphoric, same UT.

Anagrams

• ice shove

English

Alternative forms

• sign-post

Etymology

sign +? post

Noun

signpost (plural signposts)

1. a post bearing a sign that gives information on directions
2. (cryptic crosswords) A word or phrase within a clue that serves as an indicator, rather than being fodder.

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Verb

signpost (third-person singular simple present signposts, present participle signposting, simple past and past participle signposted)

1. (transitive) To install signposts on.

   The route wasn't signposted, and we got lost on the way.

2. (transitive) To direct (somebody) to services, resources, etc.
   • 2008, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee, Valuing and Supporting Carers (volume 1, page 31)

     We believe that some Carers' Centres already offer an effective 'first stop shop' for signposting carers to local organisations, services and benefits, and for providing ongoing support as carers' circumstances change.

3. To indicate logical progress of a discourse using words or phrases such as now, right, to recap, to sum up, as I was saying, etc.

   • Bede, never one to shrink from a challenge, focused his energies not only onto calculating Easter but also onto describing why the maths mattered as much as the result. In this, his elevated rhetoric is balanced by a very human enthusiasm — it's hard not to love a writer who signposts his core hypotheses with phrases such as 'now to gut the bowels of this question!'

4. To signal, as if with a signpost

Translations

See also

• fingerpost
• guidepost
• waymark

Anagrams

• postings, stop sign, stopings, stopsign