SIGNIFY

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Traducere în limba română

signify verb A. tranzitiv

1. a însemna; a avea înţeles de.

2. a face cunoscut, a declara (intenţii, dorinţi etc.);

to signify one’s consent a-şi face cunoscut consimţământul.

3. a fi un semn de, a fi un indiciu de.

signify verb B. intranzitiv

a avea importanţă;

it does not signify nu are importanţă;

what signifies his coming or not? ce importanţă are dacă vine sau nu?

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

What can it signify to you, what we are talking of.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

There, I had a friend's face under my gaze; and what did it signify that those young ladies turned their backs on me?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Wickham will soon be gone; and therefore it will not signify to anyone here what he really is.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

He hasn't been able to draw it up yet, without introducing that mode of expressing himself; but it don't signify; it keeps him employed.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I held them in my hands, till I came within two hundred yards of the gate, and desired them to signify my arrival to one of the secretaries, and let him know, I there waited his majesty’s command.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

He told Patty this, but bid her not mind it, and be sure not to say any thing to us about it, for Mrs. Hodges would be cross sometimes, and as long as so many sacks were sold, it did not signify who ate the remainder.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

It need not frighten you: it is a nothing of a part, a mere nothing, not above half a dozen speeches altogether, and it will not much signify if nobody hears a word you say; so you may be as creep-mouse as you like, but we must have you to look at.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Well, it don't signify talking; but when a young man, be who he will, comes and makes love to a pretty girl, and promises marriage, he has no business to fly off from his word only because he grows poor, and a richer girl is ready to have him.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

It was dirty, indeed, but what did that signify?

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

It does not signify if I knew twenty ways; for he has seen me.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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