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Signature

noun

Your name written in your own handwriting.

A distinguishing style. Synonym: touch.

A melody used to identify a performer or a dance band or radio/tv program. Synonyms: signature tune, theme song.

The sharps or flats that follow the clef and indicate the key. Synonym: key signature.

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

... one of his Secretaries, for his better assistance in that expedition: and besides his many other directions, whereof part were to be deliuered by word of mouth, and the rest set downe in a letter vnder the Emperours signature, addressed to her Maiesty: he had in speciall charge to sollicit her Maiesty to send ouer with him to his maister an ambassador from her, to treat and contract of such affaires of importance as concerned both the realmes, which was the ...

— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation v. 4 • Richard Hakluyt

... signature—Lafontaine, Capitaine des Chasseurs legers. I had never heard the name before. I begged to know "the nature of his business with me, as it ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine--Vol. 54, No. 333, July 1843 • Various

... held out his hand, took the greasy little book in its black oil-cloth binding, scrawled his signature in the proper blank, and received the message ...

— The Day of Days - An Extravaganza • Louis Joseph Vance

... seclusion, Oak never came at all when she was likely to be there, only entering at unseasonable hours when her presence in that part of the house was least to be expected. Whenever he wanted directions he sent a message, or note with neither heading nor signature, to which she was obliged to reply in the same offhand style. Poor Bathsheba began to suffer now from the most torturing sting of all—a sensation ...

— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy

... fashionable and profitable. No part of the career of George III deserves more commendation than his patronage of high farming. That he felt keen interest in the subject appears from the letters which he sent to "The Annals of Agriculture" over the signature of "Ralph Robinson," one of his shepherds at Windsor. A present of a ram from the King's fine flock of merinos was a sign of high favour. Thanks to this encouragement and the efforts of that prince of agricultural reformers, ...

— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose

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