sign

1. noun

1) (a mark used to mean something; a symbol: is the sign for addition.) znamenje

2) (a notice set up to give information (a shopkeeper's name, the direction of a town etc) to the public: road-sign.) znak

3) (a movement (eg a nod, wave of the hand) used to mean or represent something: He made a sign to me to keep still.) znamenje

4) (a piece of evidence suggesting that something is present or about to come: There were no signs of life at the house and he was afraid they were away; Clouds are often a sign of rain.) znamenje

2. verb

1) (to write one's name (on): Sign at the bottom, please.) podpisati (se)

2) (to write (one's name) on a letter, document etc: He signed his name on the document.) podpisati (se)

3) (to make a movement of the head, hand etc in order to show one's meaning: She signed to me to say nothing.) pomigniti

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- signboard

- signpost
- sign in/out
- sign up

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I [sáin]

noun

znak, znamenje; pismeni znak; signal; pomig, kretnja, mahanje z roko; astronomy živalski krog; čudežno znamenje na nebu; music & mathematics predznak, interpunkcija; simbol, tajna oznaka, značilna poteza; podpis; izvesek, napis (krčme, brivnice itd.); medicine simptom

in sign of — v znak (česa)

sign and countersign — tajni znak(i) za sporazumevanje (zaveznikov), geslo

a sign of decay — znak, znamenje propadanja

the signs of the time — znaki časa

deaf and-dumb signs — jezik gluhonemih

manual sign — (lastnoročni) podpis

minus sign, negative sign — znak minus (-)

no sign of life — nobenega znaka življenja

plus sign — znak plus (+)

there were signs in heaven — bila so (čudežna) znamenja na nebu

to give s.o. a sign — dati komu znak

to make the sign of the cross — pokrižati se

to make no sign — ne se premakniti, nobenega znaka (življenja) ne dati od sebe, ne se braniti

to speak by signs — govoriti z znaki, s kretnjami

II [sain]

transitive verb & intransitive verb

zaznamovati, označiti; podpisati, signirati; figuratively zapečatiti; dati (komu) znak, pomigniti, namigniti, pomahati (z roko); commerce nameniti (for za kaj); religion napraviti križ nad, blagosloviti

he signed to me to come — pomignil mi je, naj pridem

to sign o.s. with the sign of the cross — podpisati se s križcem

to sign one's will — podpisati svojo oporoko

to sign on the dotted line — podpisati se na pikčasti črti, figuratively sprejeti pogoje, slepo slediti, suženjsko se pokoravati