signifier in English

noun
1
a sign's physical form (such as a sound, printed word, or image) as distinct from its meaning.
In Saussure's theory of linguistics, the signifier is the sound and the signified is the thought.
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1. Codifications are, hopefully, defined independently of any particular symbol or signifier

2. 19 In its usage of the real or referent as signifier, surrealism eminently illustrated de-differentiated signification.

3. 10 words related to Acronym: snafu, MPEG, descriptor, form, signifier, word form, DINK, weakly interacting massive particle, WIMP, NIMBY

4. ‘“Harlots, Wine and Chibouks”: Tobacco Smoking as a Cultural Signifier in the Age of Pushkin’, Zeitschrift für slavische Philologie 73.2 (2017): 285–330

5. While there are Butches who have a complex relationship with gender, it is a common misconception that butchness is a signifier of (eventually or present) manhood.

6. It is in La relation d'objet that Lacan introduces the algebraic symbol for the barred Other, and lack comes to designate the lack of the signifier in the Other.

7. 15 What specifies, I repeat, the axiomatic statement that the signifier cannot signify itself, will have the consequence of specifying something which, as such, would not be in the Universe of discourse.

8. The Cockcrow was a temporal signifier in the Middle Ages, but is there any biological basis for these sorts of connections? Do Roosters Crow at Dawn? Sure they do! Chickens have a circadian cycle.

9. The act of Ablution is sympathetic magic, based as it is on the "like produces like" principle, the principle that action on the signifier (physical dirt) is, or results in, parallel action on the signified (spiritual sin)

10. Dans la tradition judéo-chrétienne, où il n'est pas sûr que le mot soit utilisé comme tel, on utilise le terme d' "Agapes" pour signifier un repas quotidien suivi d'une forme christianisée de la prière juive du

11. Essai sur l'Abjection) is a 1980 book by Julia Kristeva.The work is an extensive treatise on the subject of Abjection, in which Kristeva draws on the theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan to examine horror, marginalization, castration, the phallic signifier, the "I/Not I" dichotomy, the Oedipal complex, exile, and