VISUAL SIGNAL Synonyms

• a slight indication

• evidence that helps to solve a problem

• roll into a ball

• an actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech

• evidence that helps to solve a problem

• a stimulus that provides information about what to do

• sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards

• assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned

• special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc.

• a visible symbol representing an abstract idea

• emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design

• a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc.

• plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals

• a rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device

• flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green

• stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones

• a conspicuously marked or shaped tail

• communicate or signal with a flag

• provide with a flag

• droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness

• decorate with flags

• become less intense

• motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling

• the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals

• something done as an indication of intention

• show, express or direct through movement

• something that serves to indicate or suggest

• the act of indicating or pointing out by name

• (medicine) a reason to prescribe a drug or perform a procedure

• something (as a course of action) that is indicated as expedient or necessary

• a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument

• a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time

• a signal for attracting attention

• a device for showing the operating condition of some system

• (chemistry) a substance that changes color to indicate the presence of some ion or substance; can be used to indicate the completion of a chemical reaction or (in medicine) to test for a particular reaction

• some conspicuous object used to distinguish or mark something

• a distinguishing symbol

• a writing implement for making a mark

• a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)

• a public display of a message

• any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message

• structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted

• (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided

• (medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease

• having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges)

• an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come

• a gesture that is part of a sign language

• a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified

• a character indicating a relation between quantities

• used of the language of the deaf

• mark with one's signature; write one's name (on)

• approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation

• be engaged by a written agreement

• engage by written agreement

• communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs

• place signs, as along a road

• communicate in sign language

• make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate

• an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance

• something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible