0 past simple and past participle of signify --
2 to make something known; to show: --
3 to have importance or to matter: --
Don't worry about being late - it doesn't signify.
Against the background of structuralism, the signified is a meaning.
That which is signified is the thing proposed about which we speak; that which signifies is the demonstration unfolded in systems of precepts.
On the other, they did the opposite: they signified and enriched personal identities and social ties.
These areas of weakness signified problems concerning the ability to maintain old age pensions in the long term.
This signified a clearly expressed empirical turn for him.
Their behaviour signified a fundamental change in the relationships between bosses and workers that would have been inconceivable a decade earlier.
Since arsenal workers held the legal status of active soldiers, arbitrarily leaving the factory signified desertion.
Forms of content are similarly constituted by the configuration of light which emanates from the signified (things).