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Signature   /sˈɪgnətʃər/   Listen
Signature

noun
1.
Your name written in your own handwriting.
2.
A distinguishing style.  Synonym: touch.
3.
A melody used to identify a performer or a dance band or radio/tv program.  Synonyms: signature tune, theme song.
4.
The sharps or flats that follow the clef and indicate the key.  Synonym: key signature.
5.
A sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book.



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"Signature" Quotes from Famous Books



... he was led to suspect that its contents were of a somewhat serious kind by catching sight of the signature—which was in her full name, never used in her correspondence with him since her ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
... of a shock that he had none at all. The letter he carried was merely a copy without Hiram's signature; besides, he had no desire to reveal its contents. For an instant he was considerably embarrassed. But Morris ...
— The Sky Line of Spruce • Edison Marshall
... de Chenier!" Lucien exclaimed again and again. "It fills one with despair!" he cried for the third time, when David surrendered the book to him, unable to read further for emotion.—"A poet rediscovered by a poet!" said Lucien, reading the signature of ...
— Two Poets - Lost Illusions Part I • Honore de Balzac
... into his hands. And it is still less worthwhile to inquire—though Lord Holland in his place in Parliament did desire the House to consult the judges on the point—whether, if Napoleon were a prisoner of war, he "were not entitled to his habeas corpus, if detained after the signature of a treaty of peace with all the powers, or any of which he could ...
— The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860 • Charles Duke Yonge
... pages were given to reminiscences,—recollections of all the droll things and all the good and glad things of the rugged past. Every here and there, but especially where the lines drew toward the signature, the words of longing multiplied, but always full of sunshine; and just at the end of each letter love spurned its restraints, and rose ...
— Dr. Sevier • George W. Cable


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