sign

/sʌɪn/

US pronunciation

American sound/sʌɪn/

sign

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> sign

Myanmar meaning

(n) သင်္ကေတ (v) လက်မှတ်ထိုး

Full entry

sign /saÇn/ n

၁။ သင်္ကေတ။ လက္ခဏာ။ အမှတ်။ mathematical signs (eg +, –, ¥ , ÷).
၂။ ဆိုင်းဘုတ်။ အမှတ်အသား။ traffic signs (eg for a speed limit or a bend in the road) ❍ a shop-sign/pub-sign ❍ Look out for a sign to the hospital. ❍ The sign says it's 10 miles to Brighton.
၃။ လက် ဟန်ခြေဟန်။ ကိုယ်အမူအရာ။ make the sign of the cross (ie a movement in the shape of a cross made with the hand, eg in order to bless sb) ❍ She gave me a sign to sit down (eg by pointing at a chair).
၄။ ~ (of sth) အရိပ် လက္ခဏာ။ လက္ခဏာ။ ပုံ။ signs of suffering on his face ❍ some signs of improvement in her work ❍ There wasn't a sign of life in the place (ie There appeared to be no one present). ❍ The rain shows no/little sign of stopping. ❍ All the signs are that things will get worse.
၅။ (also sign of the zodiac ) (ဆယ့်နှစ်) ရာသီရုပ်။ ရာသီ။ What sign were you born under? See also STAR SIGN
v
၁။ လက်မှတ်ထိုးသည်။ sign a letter/cheque/contract ❍ sign one's autograph ❍ sign oneself ‘Azed’ ❍ an article signed ‘Sirius’ ❍ Sign (your name) here, please.
၂။ (no passive) လက်ဟန်ခြေဟန်ပြသည်။ အမူအရာပြသည်။ sign to sb that it is time to go/where to go ❍ The police officer signed (for) them to stop.
၃။ ~ (sb) (for/with/to sb/sth) (ဘောလုံးအသင်းတွင်ကစားပေးရန်၊ တေးသံသွင်း
ကုမ္ပဏီတွင်သီဆိုရန် စသည်) စာချုပ်သည်။ Arsenal have just signed a new striker. ❍ He signed for Arsenal yesterday. ❍ The band signed to/with Creature Records.
❏ sign sth away [PHRV ] လက်မှတ်ထိုး၍(တရားဝင်) လက်လွှတ်လိုက်သည်၊ အဆုံးခံသည်။ I'll never get married — it's like signing your life away!
❏ sign for sth [PHRV ] လက်ခံရရှိကြောင်း လက်မှတ် ထိုး သည်။ The courier asked me to sign for the package.
❏ sign (sb) in/out [PHRV ] အဝင်၊ အထွက်၌ လက်မှတ်ထိုး သည်။ You must sign guests in when they enter the club.
❏ signing n လူပုဂ္ဂိုလ်အား စာချုပ်ပြီးငှားရမ်းခြင်း။ the team's recent signings.
❏ sign language n [U, C] (နားမကြားသူများအတွက်)လက်ဟန်အနေအထားဖြင့် နားလည်စေသည့် ဆက်သွယ်မှုစနစ်။
❏ a sign of the times [IDM ] (often derog ) ခေတ်ကြီး၏ လက္ခဏာ။ ခေတ်ကြီး၏ပြရုပ်။ The rising level of crime is a sign of the times.
❏ sign off [PHRV ] (Brit )
၁။ စာသဝဏ်ကိုအဆုံးသတ်သည်။ She signed off with ‘Yours ever, Janet’.
၂။ အသံလွှင့် အစီအစဉ်ကို မေတ္တာပို့သ၍ နိဂုံးချုပ်ရပ်နားသည်။ This is your resident DJ signing off and wishing you all a pleasant weekend.
❏ sign on [PHRV ]
၁။ (Brit infml ) အလုပ်လက်မဲ့အဖြစ် မှတ်ပုံတင်သည်။ She's been signing on for the past six months.
၂။ အလုပ်ဝင်သည် (သို့) သင်တန်းတက်ရန် အမည်ပေး သည်။ sign on for five years in the army/for a secretarial course.
❏ sign (sb) on/up (for sth) [PHRV ] (တစ်ဦးတစ်ယောက် စသည်ကို)အလုပ်ခန့်သည်။
We need to sign on some more deck hands for the next trip. ❍ The club has signed up a new goalkeeper this season.
❏ sign on the dotted line [IDM ] (infml ) တရားဝင် လက်မှတ်ရေးထိုးသည်။ Just sign on the dotted line and the car is yours.
❏ sign sth over (to sb) [PHRV ] ပိုင်ဆိုင်ခွင့်စသည် လက်မှတ် ထိုးပြီး လွှဲပြောင်းပေးသည်။ She has signed the house over to her daughter.
❏ sign sb's/sign one's own death-warrant [IDM ] ကိုယ့်သေတွင်း ကိုယ်တူးသည်။
By informing on the gang, he was signing his own death-warrant.

More examples

[sure sign] : She began tapping her foot, a sure sign of annoyance.
[sign that] : He had somehow missed the signs that she was upset.
[no/little etc sign] : There were few signs of an upturn in the economy.
[sign of] : I couldn’t see any sign of progress.
[see/take something as a sign] : Ann took his silence as a sign of rejection.
[show no/little/every etc sign] : Interest rates show no sign of falling.
The fact that he phoned you is a good sign.
[warning/danger sign] : Looking back now, I realize I failed to spot the warning signs.
[a sign of things to come] : Recent job losses are probably a sign of things to come.
[sign of] : When we came out of the station there was no sign of her.
A flashing neon sign
The shop had a ‘closed’ sign in the window.
[follow the signs] : Turn right and follow the signs to the zoo.
[obey/ignore a sign] : Several people were ignoring the no-smoking sign.
[a sign to someone (to do something)] : Mandy winked, our sign to each other to remain silent.
[give a sign] : He turned and gave the familiar thumbs-up sign to the crowd.
A pound sign
A multiplication/division sign
I’m a Scorpio. What sign are you?

Synonyms

symbol, mark, acknowledge, assurance, augury, auspice, authorize, autograph, badge, beacon, beckon, bell, billboard, board, caution, character, cipher, clue, confirm, contract, crest, device, divination, emblem, employ, endorse, engage, ensign, evidence, express, flag, flash, footprint, foreboding, foreknowledge, foreshadowing, foretoken, forewarning, gesticulate, gesture, giveaway, guidepost, handwriting on wall, harbinger, herald, high sign, hint, hire, hoarding, indicate, indication, initial, ink, inscribe, insignia, light, logo, make signs, manifestation, motion, nod, note, notice, omen, placard, portent, poster, precursor, prediction, premonition, presage, presentiment, prognostic, proof, put John Hancock on, put John Henry on, representation, retain, road sign, rubber-stamp, scent, set one's hand to, sign up, sign your name, signal, signalize, signature, signboard, signify, signpost, subscribe, suggestion, symbolization, symptom, take on, token, trace, track, trail, type, use sign language, vestige, warning, wave, whistle, wink, witness, write name

Antonyms

deny, dismiss, obscurity, oppose