Talk:signature

RFV discussion
This looks to me like attributive use of a sense of signature, one we have had. Can this be shown to be a true adjective? See English adjectives. DCDuring TALK 13:40, 26 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Perhaps...
 * 2005,Paul Duchscherer, Linda Svendsen, Beyond the bungalow: grand homes in the arts & crafts tradition — Considered the most signature effect of the Tudor Revival style, half-timbering derived its distinctive ...
 * 2001, Lawrence J. Vale, Sam Bass Warner, Imaging the city: continuing struggles and new directions — Consider Las Fallas of Valencia, Spain, arguably the most signature of signature ephemera.
 * 2005, Brett Dawson, Tales from the 2004-05 Fighting Illini — But it was perhaps the most signature shot Williams ever made in an Illinois uniform, a bullying basket in which he used his power to pound Stoudamire, ...
 * —Pingku 01:18, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Also (with some difficulty) "this property is considered to be very signature of standard EL2 centers." Mglovesfun (talk) 01:26, 27 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Cited Thanks. DCDuring TALK 04:28, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Possible missing senses
Chambers 1908 has these two additional senses (my numbering): "1. a sign or mark; 2. a sheet after being folded, the figure or letter at the foot of the page indicating such". I hardly even understand the second one. Equinox ◑ 05:10, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

RFV discussion: March 2019
"The act of signing one's name": NOT the signature itself. ("Signature is something not to be undertaken lightly"?!) Equinox ◑ 05:09, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Seems very reasonable. Even the OED has "3 a. The action of signing one's name; authorization or authentication of a document, letter, etc., by signing it. Also: an instance of this." SemperBlotto (talk) 06:40, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Examples:, , , . --Lambiam 06:48, 10 March 2019 (UTC)


 * I found a few citations (Citations:signature) by searching for "during (the) signature of". See also . - -sche (discuss) 06:51, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 21:21, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

radar signature
Is this sense covered? "A mark or sign of implication" is vaguely correct (the echo signals imply that a certain type of thing is there) but the existing citations about God make it feel rather different. Equinox ◑ 03:30, 19 February 2021 (UTC)