| assignation | (noun) a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers) | Synonyms: tryst |
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| (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, parceling, parcelling |
| assignee | (noun) (law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred) | - |
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| assigning | (noun) the act of distributing something to designated places or persons | Synonyms: assignment |
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| assignment | (noun) a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces) | Synonyms: duty assignment |
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| (noun) the act of putting a person into a non-elective position | Synonyms: appointment, designation, naming |
| (noun) the act of distributing something to designated places or persons | Synonyms: assigning |
| (noun) an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor) | - |
| (noun) the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another | - |
| (noun) (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance | Synonyms: grant |
| assignor | (noun) (law) the party who makes an assignment | - |
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| battlesight | (noun) an arrangement of sights that makes possible the rapid aiming of a firearm at short ranges | Synonyms: battle sight |
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| bombsight | (noun) a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs | - |
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| consignee | (noun) the person to whom merchandise is delivered over | - |
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| consigner | (noun) the person who delivers over or commits merchandise | Synonyms: consignor |
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| consignment | (noun) the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) | Synonyms: commitment, committal |
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| (noun) the delivery of goods for sale or disposal | - |
| (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, freight, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment |
| consignor | (noun) the person who delivers over or commits merchandise | Synonyms: consigner |
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| cosignatory | (noun) one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration) | Synonyms: cosigner |
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| cosigner | (noun) one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration) | Synonyms: cosignatory |
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| (noun) a signer in addition to the principal signer (to verify the authenticity of the principal signature or to provide surety) | - |
| countersign | (noun) a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed | Synonyms: countersignature |
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| (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: parole, password, watchword, word |
| countersignature | (noun) a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed | Synonyms: countersign |
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| design | (noun) the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan) | Synonyms: designing |
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| (noun) a decorative or artistic work | Synonyms: figure, pattern |
| (noun) a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something | - |
| (noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: conception, excogitation, innovation, invention |
| (noun) an arrangement scheme | Synonyms: plan |
| (noun) something intended as a guide for making something else | Synonyms: blueprint, pattern |
| (noun) an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Synonyms: aim, intent, intention, purpose |
| designation | (noun) the act of putting a person into a non-elective position | Synonyms: appointment, assignment, naming |
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| (noun) the act of designating or identifying something | Synonyms: identification |
| (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellation, appellative, denomination |
| designatum | (noun) something (whether existing or not) that is referred to by a linguistic expression | - |
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| designer | (noun) someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings) | Synonyms: architect |
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| (noun) someone who designs clothing | Synonyms: clothes designer, couturier, fashion designer |
| (noun) a person who specializes in interior design | Synonyms: interior designer |
| (noun) a person who devises plots or intrigues | Synonyms: intriguer |
| (noun) someone who specializes in graphic design | Synonyms: graphic designer |
| designing | (noun) the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan) | Synonyms: design |
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| ensign | (noun) colors flown by a ship to show its nationality | - |
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| (noun) an emblem flown as a symbol of nationality | Synonyms: national flag |
| (noun) a person who holds a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant junior grade | - |
| eyesight | (noun) normal use of the faculty of vision | Synonyms: seeing, sightedness |
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| fansign | (noun) a sign made by a fan, usually with the target's name on it | - |
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| farsightedness | (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: foresight, prevision, prospicience |
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| (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia, longsightedness |
| (noun) a reduced ability to focus on near objects caused by loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens after age 45 | Synonyms: presbyopia |
| fogsignal | (noun) a loud low warning signal that can be heard by fogbound ships | Synonyms: foghorn |
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| foresight | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresightedness, foresightfulness |
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| (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: farsightedness, prevision, prospicience |
| foresightedness | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresight, foresightfulness |
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| foresightfulness | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresight, foresightedness |
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| gunsight | (noun) a sight used for aiming a gun | Synonyms: gun-sight |
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| hindsight | (noun) understanding the nature of an event after it has happened | - |
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| insight | (noun) grasping the inner nature of things intuitively | Synonyms: sixth sense |
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| (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainstorm, brainwave |
| (noun) clear or deep perception of a situation | Synonyms: penetration |
| (noun) a feeling of understanding | Synonyms: perceptiveness, perceptivity |
| insightfulness | (noun) shrewdness shown by keen insight | Synonyms: acumen |
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| insignia | (noun) a badge worn to show official position | - |
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| insignificance | (noun) the quality of having little or no significance | - |
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| intransigence | (noun) the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise | Synonyms: intransigency |
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| intransigency | (noun) the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise | Synonyms: intransigence |
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| longsightedness | (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: farsightedness, hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia |
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| nearsightedness | (noun) (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred | Synonyms: myopia, shortsightedness |
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| oversight | (noun) a mistake resulting from inattention | Synonyms: lapse |
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| (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | Synonyms: superintendence, supervising, supervision |
| (noun) an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something | Synonyms: inadvertence |
| reassignment | (noun) assignment to a different duty | - |
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| resignation | (noun) the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.) | - |
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| (noun) a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign | - |
| (noun) acceptance of despair | Synonyms: surrender |
| shortsightedness | (noun) a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources | Synonyms: improvidence |
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| (noun) (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred | Synonyms: myopia, nearsightedness |
| sigeh | (noun) a Shiite tradition of temporary marriage permitted in Iran that allows a couple to specify the terms of their relationship; can last from a few minutes to 99 years | - |
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| sigh | (noun) an utterance made by exhaling audibly | Synonyms: suspiration |
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| (noun) a sound like a person sighing | - |
| sight | (noun) the act of looking or seeing or observing | Synonyms: survey, view |
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| (noun) the ability to see; the visual faculty | Synonyms: vision, visual modality, visual sense |
| (noun) an instance of visual perception | - |
| (noun) the range of vision | Synonyms: ken |
| (noun) a range of mental vision | - |
| (noun) a place of interest, especially to visitors | - |
| (noun) anything that is seen | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| sightedness | (noun) normal use of the faculty of vision | Synonyms: eyesight, seeing |
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| sighting | (noun) the act of observing | - |
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| sightlessness | (noun) the state of being blind or lacking sight | Synonyms: blindness, cecity |
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| sightreader | (noun) a performer who reads without preparation or prior acquaintance (as in music) | - |
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| sights | (noun) an optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument | - |
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| sightseeing | (noun) going about to look at places of interest | Synonyms: rubber-necking |
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| sightseer | (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: excursionist, rubberneck, tripper |
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| siglum | (noun) a sign, abbreviation, letter, or character standing for words in ancient manuscripts or on coins or medals. | - |
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| sigma | (noun) the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| sigmoidectomy | (noun) surgical removal of part or all of the sigmoid colon (usually to remove a malignant tumor) | - |
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| sigmoidoscope | (noun) an endoscope (a flexible fiberoptic probe) for examining the sigmoid colon | Synonyms: flexible sigmoidoscope |
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| sigmoidoscopy | (noun) visual examination (with a sigmoidoscope) of the lower third of the colon in a search for polyps | Synonyms: flexible sigmoidoscopy |
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| sign | (noun) structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted | Synonyms: signboard |
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| (noun) a public display of a message | - |
| (noun) a gesture that is part of a sign language | - |
| (noun) any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message | Synonyms: signal, signaling, signalling |
| (noun) a character indicating a relation between quantities | - |
| (noun) a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened) | Synonyms: mark |
| (noun) a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified | - |
| (noun) an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come | Synonyms: augury, foretoken, preindication |
| (noun) (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided | Synonyms: house, mansion, planetary house, sign of the zodiac, star sign |
| (noun) having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges) | Synonyms: polarity |
| (noun) (medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease | - |
| signage | (noun) signs collectively (especially commercial signs or posters) | - |
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| signal | (noun) any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message | Synonyms: sign, signaling, signalling |
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| (noun) any incitement to action | - |
| (noun) an electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength) whose modulation represents coded information about the source from which it comes | - |
| signaler | (noun) someone who communicates by signals | Synonyms: signaller |
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| signaling | (noun) any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message | Synonyms: sign, signal, signalling |
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| signalisation | (noun) a conspicuous indication | Synonyms: signalization |
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| signalization | (noun) a conspicuous indication | Synonyms: signalisation |
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| signaller | (noun) someone who communicates by signals | Synonyms: signaler |
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| signalling | (noun) any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message | Synonyms: sign, signal, signaling |
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| signalman | (noun) a railroad employee in charge of signals and point in a railroad yard | - |
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| signatory | (noun) someone who signs and is bound by a document | Synonyms: signer |
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| signature | (noun) a distinguishing style | Synonyms: touch |
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| (noun) your name written in your own handwriting | - |
| (noun) a sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book | - |
| (noun) the sharps or flats that follow the clef and indicate the key | Synonyms: key signature |
| (noun) a melody used to identify a performer or a dance band or radio/tv program | Synonyms: signature tune, theme song |
| signboard | (noun) structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted | Synonyms: sign |
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| signer | (noun) someone who signs and is bound by a document | Synonyms: signatory |
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| (noun) someone who can use sign language to communicate | - |
| signet | (noun) a seal (especially one used to mark documents officially) | - |
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| significance | (noun) the quality of being significant | - |
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| (noun) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | Synonyms: implication, import |
| (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, meaning, signification |
| signification | (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, meaning, significance |
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| signified | (noun) the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted | Synonyms: sense |
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| signifier | (noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Synonyms: descriptor, form, word form |
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| signing | (noun) language expressed by visible hand gestures | Synonyms: sign language |
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| signior | (noun) used as an Italian courtesy title; can be prefixed to the name or used separately | Synonyms: signor |
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| signor | (noun) used as an Italian courtesy title; can be prefixed to the name or used separately | Synonyms: signior |
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| signora | (noun) an Italian title of address equivalent to Mrs. when used before a name | - |
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| signore | (noun) an Italian title of respect for a man; equivalent to the English `sir'; used separately (not prefixed to his name) | - |
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| signorina | (noun) an Italian courtesy title for an unmarried woman; equivalent to `Miss', it is either used alone or before a name | - |
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| signory | (noun) the estate of a seigneur | Synonyms: seigneury, seigniory |
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| signpost | (noun) a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way | Synonyms: guidepost |
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| unsightliness | (noun) ugliness that is unpleasant to look at | - |
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