"signal" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

signal verbo

signal + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 29
signal one's intention • signal the beginning • signal the start • signal a change • signal the end • ...
(6) desire, distress
Kolokacji: 2
1. signal one's desire = sygnał czyjś ochota signal one's desire
2. signal distress = udręka sygnału signal distress
  • She fired her guns to signal distress, which brought out several boats from the dockyard.
  • Biggest Not Always First But even New York City itself ranks behind other major cities in several categories that signal economic and social distress.
  • The owner and captain, John Noyes, signaled distress, flying the ensign at half-mast and union-down.
  • Chaff can also be used to signal distress by an aircraft when communications are not functional.
  • There are echoes of English oratorio and church traditions and the occasional inclusion of a dissonance to signal pain or distress.
  • Apart from contact communication, bleating may signal distress, frustration or impatience; however, sheep are usually silent when in pain.
  • Its frantic little banners seemed to be signaling distress now, on account of MamaTataba's vigorous washings in the river.
  • Vera waved her flashlight at them to signal distress.
  • I had not, until that moment, realized that the initials of the new Scully on Spring signaled distress.
  • Is this infidelity meant to signal distress in the marriage to Lizzie?
(7) interest, man, concern
Kolokacji: 3
(8) commitment, flexibility
Kolokacji: 2
(9) danger, silence, order
Kolokacji: 3
verbo + signal
Kolokacji: 4
seem to signal • used to signal • try to signal • begin signaling
signal + preposición
Kolokacji: 16
signal to • signal for • signal by • signal with • signal from • ...
signal + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 18
clearly signal • signal frantically • immediately signal • necessarily signal • effectively signal • ...

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