Sign on the dotted line

Definition

sign /saÇn/ n ၁။ သေကၤတ။ လကၡဏာ။ အမွတ္။ mathematical signs (eg +, –, ¥ , ÷). ၂။ ဆိုင္းဘုတ္။ အမွတ္အသား။ 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။ လက္ ဟန္ေျခဟန္။ ကိုယ္အမူအရာ။ 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) အရိပ္ လကၡဏာ။ လကၡဏာ။ ပံု။ 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 ) (ဆယ့္ႏွစ္) ရာသီ႐ုပ္။ ရာသီ။ What sign were you born under? See also STAR SIGN v ၁။ လက္မွတ္ထိုးသည္။ sign a letter/cheque/contract ❍ sign one's autograph ❍ sign oneself ‘Azed’ ❍ an article signed ‘Sirius’ ❍ Sign (your name) here, please. ၂။ (no passive) လက္ဟန္ေျခဟန္ျပသည္။ အမူအရာျပသည္။ 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) (ေဘာလံုးအသင္းတြင္ကစားေပးရန္၊ ေတးသံသြင္း ကုမၸဏီတြင္သီဆိုရန္ စသည္) စာခ်ဳပ္သည္။ Arsenal have just signed a new striker. ❍ He signed for Arsenal yesterday. ❍ The band signed to/with Creature Records. ❏ sign sth away [ PHRV ] လက္မွတ္ထိုး၍(တရားဝင္) လက္လႊတ္လိုက္သည္၊ အဆံုးခံသည္။ I'll never get married — it's like signing your life away! ❏ sign for sth [ PHRV ] လက္ခံရရိွေၾကာင္း လက္မွတ္ ထိုး သည္။ The courier asked me to sign for the package. ❏ sign (sb) in/out [ PHRV ] အဝင္၊ အထြက္၌ လက္မွတ္ထိုး သည္။ You must sign guests in when they enter the club. ❏ signing n လူပုဂၢိဳလ္အား စာခ်ဳပ္ၿပီးငွားရမ္းျခင္း။ the team's recent signings. ❏ sign language n [U, C] (နားမၾကားသူမ်ားအတြက္)လက္ဟန္အေနအထားျဖင့္ နားလည္ေစသည့္ ဆက္သြယ္မႈစနစ္။ ❏ a sign of the times [ IDM ] ( often derog ) ေခတ္ႀကီး၏ လကၡဏာ။ ေခတ္ႀကီး၏ျပ႐ုပ္။ The rising level of crime is a sign of the times. ❏ sign off [ PHRV ] ( Brit ) ၁။ စာသဝဏ္ကိုအဆံုးသတ္သည္။ She signed off with ‘Yours ever, Janet’. ၂။ အသံလႊင့္ အစီအစဥ္ကို ေမတၱာပို႔သ၍ နိဂံုးခ်ဳပ္ရပ္နားသည္။ This is your resident DJ signing off and wishing you all a pleasant weekend. ❏ sign on [ PHRV ] ၁။ ( Brit infml ) အလုပ္လက္မဲ့အျဖစ္ မွတ္ပံုတင္သည္။ She's been signing on for the past six months. ၂။ အလုပ္ဝင္သည္ (သို႔) သင္တန္းတက္ရန္ အမည္ေပး သည္။ sign on for five years in the army/for a secretarial course. ❏ sign (sb) on/up (for sth) [ PHRV ] (တစ္ဦးတစ္ေယာက္ စသည္ကို)အလုပ္ခန္႔သည္။ 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 ) တရားဝင္ လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးသည္။ Just sign on the dotted line and the car is yours. ❏ sign sth over (to sb) [ PHRV ] ပိုင္ဆိုင္ခြင့္စသည္ လက္မွတ္ ထိုးၿပီး လႊဲေျပာင္းေပးသည္။ She has signed the house over to her daughter. ❏ sign sb's/sign one's own death-warrant [ IDM ] ကိုယ့္ေသတြင္း ကိုယ္တူးသည္။ By informing on the gang, he was signing his own death-warrant.

Examples

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