different between signature vs warlording

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French signature, or from Medieval Latin signatura, future active periphrastic of verb signare (“to sign”) from signum (“sign”), + -tura, feminine of -turus, future active periphrastic suffix.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s??n?t??(r)/, /?s??n?t??(r)/
• (US) enPR: s?g?n?ch?r, s?g?n?ch?r, IPA^(key): /?s??n?t??/, /?s??n?t??/

Noun

signature (plural signatures)

2. A person's name, written by that person, used as identification or to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract.
3. An act of signing one's name; an act of producing a signature.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:signature.
4. (medicine) The part of a doctor’s prescription containing directions for the patient.
5. (music) Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo, composed of the key signature and the time signature.
6. (printing) A group of four (or a multiple of four) sheets printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book.
7. (computing) A pattern used for matching the identity of a virus, the parameter types of a method, etc.
8. (cryptography) Data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source.
9. (figuratively) A mark or sign of implication.
   • 1975, United States. Office of Noise Abatement and Control, First Report on Status and Progress of Noise Research and Control Programs in the Federal Government (volume 1, page 6-13)

     The TACOM Vehicle Signature Reduction program is concerned with reducing the noise signature detectability of military vehicles in combat.
10. A dish that is characteristic of a particular chef.
11. (mathematics) A tuple specifying the sign of coefficients in any diagonal form of a quadratic form.
12. (medicine, obsolete) A resemblance between the external character 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.
13. (Internet) Text (or images, etc.) appended to a user's emails, newsgroup posts, forum posts, etc. as a way of adding a personal touch or including contact details.

    Synonyms: sig, siggy

Hyponyms

• biosignature

Derived terms

• signature-compatible

Translations

See also

• autograph

Adjective

signature (not generally comparable, comparative more signature, superlative most signature)

1. Distinctive, characteristic, indicative of identity.
   • 2001, Lawrence J. Vale, Sam Bass Warner, Imaging the city: continuing struggles and new directions,

     Consider Las Fallas of Valencia, Spain, arguably the most signature of signature ephemera.

   • 2005, Paul Duchscherer, Linda Svendsen, Beyond the bungalow: grand homes in the arts & crafts tradition,

     Considered the most signature effect of the Tudor Revival style, half-timbering derived its distinctive […] .

   • 2005, Brett Dawson, Tales from the 2004-05 Fighting Illini,

     But it was perhaps the most signature shot Williams ever made in an Illinois uniform, a bullying basket in which he used his power to pound Stoudamire, […] .

   • 2005, CBS News website, Paul Winchell Dead At Age 82,

     He credited his wife, who is British, for giving him the inspiration for Tigger’s signature phrase: TTFN. TA-TA for now.

Translations

References

• signature at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• antisurge, gauntries, sautering

French

Etymology

signer +? -ture; cf. Medieval Latin signatura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.?a.ty?/

Noun

signature f (plural signatures)

1. signature (a person's name written in their own handwriting)

   désavouer sa signature

2. the act of signing

   Le décret est à la signature.

Related terms

• signer
• signataire

Further reading

• “signature” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Participle

sign?t?re

1. vocative masculine singular of sign?t?rus

English

Etymology

Named after the Usenet group alt.fan.warlord which was established as a forum for warlording, itself named after the Usenet user with the handle "Death Star, War Lord of the West" who became infamous among certain circles in the Usenet community for possessing a particularly bloated signature block.

Noun

warlording (uncountable)

1. (Internet) The act of denouncing, dissecting or mocking bloated signature blocks in Usenet postings.

Further reading

• McQuary limit
• alt.fan.warlord on Wikipedia.Wikipedia