Decline
(v. i.) To bend, or lean downward |
Decline
(v. i.) To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction |
Decline
(v. i.) To turn or bend aside |
Decline
(v. i.) To turn away |
Decline
(v. t.) To bend downward |
Decline
(v. t.) To cause to decrease or diminish. |
Decline
(v. t.) To put or turn aside |
Decline
(v. t.) To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of |
Decline
(v. t.) To run through from first to last |
Decline
(v. i.) A falling off |
Decline
(v. i.) That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence |
Decline
(v. i.) A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties |
Deterioration
(n.) The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse. |
Re-sign
(v. t.) To affix one's signature to, a second time |
Re sign
(n.) Resignation. |
Sign
(n.) That by which anything is made known or represented |
Sign
(n.) A remarkable event, considered by the ancients as indicating the will of some deity |
Sign
(n.) An event considered by the Jews as indicating the divine will, or as manifesting an interposition of the divine power for some special end |
Sign
(n.) Something serving to indicate the existence, or preserve the memory, of a thing |
Sign
(n.) Any symbol or emblem which prefigures, typifles, or represents, an idea |
Sign
(n.) A word or a character regarded as the outward manifestation of thought |
Sign
(n.) A motion, an action, or a gesture by which a thought is expressed, or a command or a wish made known. |
Sign
(n.) Hence, one of the gestures of pantomime, or of a language of a signs such as those used by the North American Indians, or those used by the deaf and dumb. |
Sign
(n.) A military emblem carried on a banner or a standard. |
Sign
(n.) A lettered board, or other conspicuous notice, placed upon or before a building, room, shop, or office to advertise the business there transacted, or the name of the person or firm carrying it on |
Sign
(n.) The twelfth part of the ecliptic or zodiac. |
Sign
(n.) A character indicating the relation of quantities, or an operation performed upon them |
Sign
(n.) An objective evidence of disease |
Sign
(n.) Any character, as a flat, sharp, dot, etc. |
Sign
(n.) That which, being external, stands for, or signifies, something internal or spiritual |
Sign
(n.) To represent by a sign |
Sign
(n.) To make a sign upon |
Sign
(n.) To affix a signature to |
Sign
(n.) To assign or convey formally |
Sign
(n.) To mark |
Sign
(v. i.) To be a sign or omen. |
Sign
(v. i.) To make a sign or signal |
Sign
(v. i.) To write one's name, esp. as a token of assent, responsibility, or obligation. |
Symptom
(n.) Any affection which accompanies disease |
Symptom
(n.) A sign or token |
Babinski
Babinski reflex
Babinski sign | extension upward of the toes when the sole of the foot is stroked firmly on the outer side from the heel to the front, normal in infants under the age of two years but a sign of brain or spinal cord injury in older persons |
signboard
sign | structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted, the highway was lined with signboards |
| sign manual | the signature of a sovereign on an official document |
| sign mark | a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened), he showed signs of strain, they welcomed the signs of spring |
signal
signaling
sign | any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message, signals from the boat suddenly stopped |
| sign | a public display of a message, he posted signs in all the shop windows |
| street sign | a sign visible from the street |
| symptom | anything that accompanies X and is regarded as an indication of X's existence |
| high sign | a silent signal of warning or recognition, she started to speak but he gave her the high sign |
pound
pound sign | a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain) |
| sign | a character indicating a relation between quantities, don't forget the minus sign |
| equal sign | a sign indicating that the quantities on either side are equal |
| plus sign | a sign indicating the operation of addition |
| minus sign | a sign indicating the operation of subtraction |
| radical sign | a sign indicating the extraction of a root |
dollar mark
dollar sign | a mark ($) written before a number to indicate that it stands for the number of dollars |
dollar
dollar mark dollar sign | a symbol of commercialism or greed, he worships the almighty dollar, the dollar sign means little to him |
percent sign
percentage sign | a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by |
sign language
signing | language expressed by visible hand gestures |
ASL
American sign language | the sign language used in the United States |
| sign | a gesture that is part of a sign language |
| V sign | a sign (for victory), making a V with the index and middle fingers |
| sign of the cross | a gesture with the right hand moving to form a cross, used by Catholics as a profession of faith |
| sign | a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified, The bond between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary--de Saussure |
augury
sign
foretoken
preindication | an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come, he hoped it was an augury, it was a sign from God |
| sign industry | an industry that produces signs |
sign of the zodiac
star sign
sign
mansion
house
planetary house | (astrology) one of equal areas into which the zodiac is divided |
descent
declivity
fall
decline
declination
declension
downslope | a downward slope or bend |
| sign painter | someone who paints signs and billboards etc. |
| decay decline | a gradual decrease, as of stored charge or current |
| decline diminution | change toward something smaller or lower |
deterioration
decline in quality
declension
worsening | process of changing to an inferior state |
polarity
sign | having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges), he got the polarity of the battery reversed, charges of opposite sign |
| Jacquemier's sign | a purplish discoloration of the mucous membrane of the vagina that occurs early in pregnancy |
| Kernig's sign | symptom of meningitis, patient cannot extend the leg at the knee when the thigh is flexed because of stiffness in the hamstrings |
| symptom | (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease |
| sign | (medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease, there were no signs of asphyxiation |
| vital sign | sign of life, usually an indicator of a person's general physical condition, he was still alive but his vital signs were weak |
acrocyanosis
Raynaud's sign | cyanosis of the extremities, can occur when a spasm of the blood vessels is caused by exposure to cold or by strong emotion |
| withdrawal symptom | any physical or psychological disturbance (as sweating or depression) experienced by a drug addict when deprived of the drug |
decline
declination | a condition inferior to an earlier condition, a gradual falling off from a better state |
deterioration
impairment | a symptom of reduced quality or strength |
worsen
decline | grow worse, Conditions in the slum worsened |
decline
go down
wane | grow smaller, Interest in the project waned |
refuse
decline | show unwillingness towards, he declined to join the group on a hike |
| bless sign | make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection, consecrate |
| sign | be engaged by a written agreement, He signed to play the casino on Dec. , The soprano signed to sing the new opera |
| sign | communicate in sign language, I don't know how to sign, so I could not communicate with my deaf cousin |
check in
sign in | announce one's arrival, e.g. at hotels or airports |
| sign off | cease broadcasting, get off the air, as of radio stations |