different between signal vs symptom
signal
English
Alternative forms
- signall
Etymology
From Old French segnal, seignal or Medieval Latin sign?le; noun use of the neuter of Late Latin sign?lis, from Latin signum; verb use from 1805, as a shortened from signalize (1650s).
Pronunciation
- enPR: s?g?n?l, IPA(key): /?s??n?l/
- Hyphenation: sig?nal
Noun
signal (plural signals)
- A sequence of states representing an encoded message in a communication channel.
- Any variation of a quantity or change in an entity over time that conveys information upon detection.
- A sign made to give notice of some occurrence, command, or danger, or to indicate the start of a concerted action.
- An on-off light, semaphore, or other device used to give an indication to another person.
- (of a radio, TV, telephone, internet, etc.) An electromagnetic action, normally a voltage that is a function of time, that conveys the information of the radio or TV program or of communication with another party.
- My mobile phone can't get a signal in the railway station.
- An action, change or process done to convey information and thus reduce uncertainty.
- A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year
- There was not the least signal of the calamity to be seen.
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year
- Useful information, as opposed to noise.
- (computing, Unix) A simple interprocess communication used to notify a process or thread of an occurrence.
- (biochemistry) A signalling interaction between cells
Antonyms
- (useful information): noise
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- tocsin
Verb
signal (third-person singular simple present signals, present participle (UK) signalling or (US) signaling, simple past and past participle (UK) signalled or (US) signaled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To indicate; to convey or communicate by a signal.
- (transitive) To communicate with (a person or system) by a signal.
- Seeing the flames, he ran to the control room and signalled headquarters.
Derived terms
- missignal
- oversignal
- undersignal
Translations
Adjective
signal (not comparable)
- Standing above others in rank, importance, or achievement.
- a signal exploit; a signal service; a signal act of benevolence
Synonyms
- eminent, noteworthy, significant; see also Thesaurus:important or Thesaurus:notable
Related terms
- signature (adjective)
Anagrams
- Saling, algins, aligns, lasing, liangs, lingas
Danish
Etymology
From Medieval Latin signale
Noun
signal n (singular definite signalet, plural indefinite signaler)
- a signal
References
- “signal” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
Re-latinization of Old French segnal, from Medieval Latin signale, from Late Latin sign?lis, from Latin signum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si.?al/
Noun
signal m (plural signaux)
- signal
Related terms
- signe
Further reading
- “signal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- lignas
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Medieval Latin signale
Noun
signal n (definite singular signalet, indefinite plural signal or signaler, definite plural signala or signalene)
- a signal
Derived terms
References
- “signal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Medieval Latin signale
Noun
signal n (definite singular signalet, indefinite plural signal, definite plural signala)
- a signal
Derived terms
References
- “signal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Etymology
From French signal.
Noun
signal n (plural signale)
- signal
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From German Signal, from Medieval Latin signale, from Latin signum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??na?l/
- Hyphenation: sig?nal
Noun
sìgn?l m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)
- signal
Declension
References
- “signal” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
signal c
- a signal
Declension
Anagrams
- inslag, ligans, singla, slinga
Vilamovian
Etymology
From Old French segnal, seignal or Medieval Latin sign?le, noun use of the neuter of Late Latin sign?lis, from Latin signum.
Pronunciation
Noun
signal n (plural signale)
- signal
signal From the web:
- what signals the opening of chichicastenango
- what signals a tree to prepare for winter
- what signals the end of menopause
- what signaled the end of the cold war
- what signaled the beginning of the great depression
- what signaled the end of reconstruction
- what signals the part of speech for cryptanalysts
- what signals the end of the cell cycle
symptom
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???????? (súmpt?ma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”), from stem of ???????? (sumpípt?, “? befall”), from ???- (sun-, “together”) + ????? (pípt?, “I fall”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?m(p)t?m/
- Hyphenation: symp?tom
Noun
symptom (plural symptoms)
- (medicine) A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash.
- (figuratively) A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable.
Synonyms
- indication
- manifestation
- sign, signal
- See also Thesaurus:symptom
Antonyms
- Treatment of symptoms versus treatment of cause
Derived terms
- symptomatology
- symptomless
Related terms
- asymptomatic
- asymptote
- symptomatic
Translations
Further reading
- symptom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- symptom in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Czech
Etymology
From German Symptom from Ancient Greek ???????? (súmpt?ma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”), from stem of ???????? (sumpípt?, “? befall”), from ???- (sun-, “together”) + ????? (pípt?, “I fall”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?s?mptom]
Noun
symptom m
- symptom
Declension
Related terms
- symptomatický
References
Danish
Noun
symptom n (singular definite symptomet, plural indefinite symptomer)
- symptom
Declension
Derived terms
- symptomfri
Related terms
- symptomatisk
References
- “symptom” in Den Danske Ordbog
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???????? (súmpt?ma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”), from stem of ???????? (sumpípt?, “? befall”), from ???- (sun-, “together”) + ????? (pípt?, “I fall”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?mp?tu?m/
- Rhymes: -u?m
- Hyphenation: symp?tom
Noun
symptom n (definite singular symptomet, indefinite plural symptom or symptomer, definite plural symptoma or symptomene)
- symptom
Derived terms
- abstinenssymptom
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
symptom n (definite singular symptomet, indefinite plural symptom, definite plural symptoma)
- symptom
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?m.pt?m/
Noun
symptom m inan
- symptom
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
In the Swedish language since 1730. From Ancient Greek ???????? (súmpt?ma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”).
Noun
symptom n
- Dated form of symtom (“symptom”).
symptom From the web:
- what symptoms of covid
- what symptom is an indicator of nicotine withdrawal
- what symptoms can stress cause
- what symptoms warrant a covid test
- what symptoms are not covid
- what symptoms of covid come first
- what symptoms of pregnancy
- what symptoms start first with covid
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