词汇 | signer |
释义 | signer noun[ C ] uk /ˈsaɪ.nər/ us /ˈsaɪ.nɚ/ a person, organization, or country that has signed an official document: The Academy boasts a proud list of former students, including two signers of the Declaration of Independence. Nearly 300 letter writers and petition signers have questioned the fairness of the plan. Synonym signatory See also co-signer Compare non-signer a person who uses sign language(= a system of hand and body movements representing words, used by and to people who cannot hear or speak): She liked the idea of living in a community with signers and a mixture of hearing and deaf residents. The Director of Special Education has hired interpreters who go from class to class, providing relief for the regular signer. Compare non-signer Facsimiles of the Declaration of Independence will be available during the day for tourists to add their names to the list of original signers. He was the signer of a longterm contract that locked in relatively low power rates for the next five years. In some cases, the witness or the signer did not date their signatures, thus invalidating the documents. Sometimes the addresses listed by signers of the petition did not match addresses of registered voters of the same name. Our research showed that baby signers actually learn to talk sooner - and at age 8, they had higher IQs. Accepting & agreeing accepting accommodation accreditation agree to something agree with something assent compact conclusion countenance currency formal pre-approved presumed consent ratification re-establish regrant root signatory unquestioning without a murmuridiom You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Ways of speaking Using other languages Examples of signersigner Every utterance, indeed every use of a conventional sign, contains an element manifesting the speaker's (signer's) commitment with regard to the proposition expressed. It is not signed on the body, but rather in the space in front of the signer. All signing occurs in "sign space," an area in front of the signer. Here we explore the role of gestural communication among deaf signers and the neural correlates associated with this type of communication. Mutual gaze at the end of an utterance indicates the signer's or speaker's willingness to give up the floor to the addressee. Even for nouns and adjectives, the grammatical classes with the greatest percentage of citation forms, signers chose cf variants 32% of the time. Mutual gaze at the beginning of an utterance signals that the signer or speaker has the addressee's visual attention. However, signers frequently use body and facial gestures simultaneously with sign. We are limited at this point in what we can say about the signers' adherence to a shared set of linguistic norms. However, when describing a bottle of water falling, signers do not use their body together with the hands to show the direction of falling. In contrast, in other sites, working-class signers selected the cf variant for the majority of 1 handshape signs. To indicate anaphoric reference, the signer indexes the location previously assigned to that referent. Interestingly, signers was correctly identified as requiring protection, but the implementation of the class failed to enforce the designer's intention. Younger signers, in contrast, use verb forms in which agreement is marked with both subject and object. In the other sites, the situation was the reverse, with working-class signers using more citation forms than middle-class signers. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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