Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to sign
Participle: signed
Gerund: signing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | sign |
| you | sign |
| he;she;it | signs |
| we | sign |
| you | sign |
| they | sign |
Perfect
| I | have signed |
| you | have signed |
| he;she;it | has signed |
| we | have signed |
| you | have signed |
| they | have signed |
Past
| I | signed |
| you | signed |
| he;she;it | signed |
| we | signed |
| you | signed |
| they | signed |
Pluperfect
| I | had signed |
| you | had signed |
| he;she;it | had signed |
| we | had signed |
| you | had signed |
| they | had signed |
Future
| I | will sign |
| you | will sign |
| he;she;it | will sign |
| we | will sign |
| you | will sign |
| they | will sign |
Future Perfect
| I | will have signed |
| you | will have signed |
| he;she;it | will have signed |
| we | will have signed |
| you | will have signed |
| they | will have signed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | sign |
| you | sign |
| he;she;it | sign |
| we | sign |
| you | sign |
| they | sign |
Perfect
| I | have signed |
| you | have signed |
| he;she;it | have signed |
| we | have signed |
| you | have signed |
| they | have signed |
Imperfect
| I | signed |
| you | signed |
| he;she;it | signed |
| we | signed |
| you | signed |
| they | signed |
Pluperfect
| I | had signed |
| you | had signed |
| he;she;it | had signed |
| we | had signed |
| you | had signed |
| they | had signed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would sign |
| you | would sign |
| he;she;it | would sign |
| we | would sign |
| you | would sign |
| they | would sign |
Perfect
| I | would have signed |
| you | would have signed |
| he;she;it | would have signed |
| we | would have signed |
| you | would have signed |
| they | would have signed |
Imperative
| you | sign |
| we | Let's sign |
| you | sign |
Verbs conjugated like 'sign'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'sign'
sigh,
sin,
align,
assign,
big,
bigg,
bin,
cosign,
deign,
design,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- indicate
- gesture, signal, express, wave, mean, betoken, signify
- endorse
- confirm, approve, acknowledge, inscribe, initial, autograph
- bless
- ordain, hallow, consecrate, dignify
- hire
- employ, contract, engage
Antonyms
- indicate
- conceal, falsify, misdirect, contradict
- bless
- curse, deprive, impoverish, sadden
- hire
- fire, discharge, retire, purchase
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
~ away something,
~ something away,
~ for something,
~ in (somebody),
~ (somebody) in,
~ off (something),
~ off,
~ off somebody,
~ somebody off,
~ off on something,
~ on,
~ on somebody,
~ somebody on,
~ out something,
~ something out,
~ out (somebody),
~ (somebody) out,
~ over something,
~ something over,
~ up,
~ up somebody,
~ somebody up,
~ with something,
Etymology
From Middle English signen, seinen, seinien, partly from Old English seġnian (“to mark; sign”) and partly from Anglo-Norman seigner, seiner et al., Old French signer et al., and their source Latin signāre (“to mark, seal, indicate, signify”); all from Latin signum (“a mark, sign”); see Etymology 1, above. Compare sain. See: Latin '
signare'.
Verbs referencing "sign"
Maori haina, Swahili
saini, Xhosa
sayina, Zulu
sayina, Thai
เซ็น, Scots Gaelic
soidhn.
Sample Sentences
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If it were _your_ Harry, mother, or your Willie, that were going to be torn from you by a brutal trader, tomorrow morning,—if you had seen the man, and heard that the papers were signed and delivered, and you had only from twelve o’clock till morning to make good your escape,—how fast could _you_ walk ? How many miles could you make in those few brief hours, with the darling at [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] library is a favourable school for the study of such topics, it has very scant allusion to fine clothes, fine marriages, fine houses, or fine life. Some persons might object to the papers being signed occasionally with rather fine names, but this is an American fashion. One of the provinces of the state legislature of Massachusetts is to alter ugly names into pretty ones, as the children improve [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] alone,—a baby that had never been away from his mother in his life ! I couldn't stand it, ma’am. I knew I never should be good for anything, if they did; and when I knew the papers the papers were signed, and he was sold, I took him and came off in the night; and they chased me,—the man that bought him, and some of Mas’r's folks,—and they were coming down right behind me, and I heard ’ em. I jumped [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ Why, it's a bill of sale, signed by John Fosdick, ” said the man, “ making over to you the girl Lucy and her child. It's all straight enough, for aught I see. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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I was very much interested in looking over a number of treaties made from time to time with the poor Indians, signed by the different chiefs at the period of their ratification, and preserved in the office of the Secretary to the Commonwealth. These signatures, traced of course by their own hands, are rough [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] faith, and quibble out of forms and bonds. I wonder, too, how many times the credulous Big Turtle, or trusting Little Hatchet, had put his mark to treaties which were falsely read to him; and had signed away, he knew not what, until it went and cast him loose upon the new possessors of the land, a savage indeed.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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As each one took their gift, Miss Ophelia, who was apprehensive for the effect of all this excitement on her little patient, signed to each one to pass out of the apartment.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] I 'm in the hands of a Yankee, there is nothing for it but to concede; ” and St. Clare rapidly wrote off a deed of gift, which, as he was well versed in the forms of law, he could easily do, and signed his name to it in sprawling capitals, concluding by a tremendous flourish.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)