signature

signature is a 9-letter English word with 14 senses as transitive verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal.
2. transitive verb. Especially, the name of any person, written with his own hand, employed to signify that the writing which precedes accords with his wishes or intentions; a sign manual; an autograph.
3. transitive verb. An outward mark by which internal characteristics were supposed to be indicated.
4. transitive verb. A resemblance between the external characters 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.
5. transitive verb. The designation of the key (when not C major, or its relative, A minor) by means of one or more sharps or flats at the beginning of the staff, immediately after the clef, affecting all notes of the same letter throughout the piece or movement. Each minor key has the same signature as its relative major.
6. transitive verb. A letter or figure placed at the bottom of the first page of each sheet of a book or pamphlet, as a direction to the binder in arranging and folding the sheets.
7. transitive verb. The printed sheet so marked, or the form from which it is printed; as, to reprint one or more signatures.
8. transitive verb. That part of a prescription which contains the directions to the patient. It is usually prefaced by S or Sig. (an abbreviation for the Latin signa, imperative of signare to sign or mark).
9. transitive verb. To mark with, or as with, a signature or signatures.
10. noun. a distinguishing style

    "this room needs a woman's touch"

    Synonyms: touch

11. noun. a sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book
12. noun. your name written in your own handwriting
13. noun. the sharps or flats that follow the clef and indicate the key
14. noun. a melody used to identify a performer or a dance band or radio/tv program

Synonyms

touch

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in signature:

gauntries

Common word forms

signatured, signatures, signaturing, signatureless

Words from these letters

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