See signpost in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"To install signposts on."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To install signposts on."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2008, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee, Valuing and Supporting Carers (volume 1, page 31)",
"text": "We believe that some Carers' Centres already offer an effective 'first stop shop' for signposting carers to local organisations, services and benefits, and for providing ongoing support as carers' circumstances change."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To direct (somebody) to services, resources, etc."
],
"links": [
[
"direct",
"direct"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To direct (somebody) to services, resources, etc."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2013 August 8, Charlotte Mulcare, “The lost mathematicians: Numbers in the (not so) dark ages”, in plus.maths.org, retrieved 2013-09-08:",
"text": "Bede, never one to shrink from a challenge, focused his energies not only onto calculating Easter but also onto describing why the maths mattered as much as the result. In this, his elevated rhetoric is balanced by a very human enthusiasm — it's hard not to love a writer who signposts his core hypotheses with phrases such as 'now to gut the bowels of this question!'",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To indicate logical progress of a discourse using words or phrases such as now, right, to recap, to sum up, as I was saying, etc."
],
"links": [
[
"discourse",
"discourse"
],
[
"now",
"now"
],
[
"right",
"right"
],
[
"recap",
"recap"
],
[
"sum up",
"sum up"
],
[
"as I was saying",
"as I was saying"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To signal, as if with a signpost."
],
"links": [
[
"signal",
"signal"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
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}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sign-post"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "install signposts",
"word": "senyalitzar"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "install signposts",
"word": "bewegwijzeren"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "install signposts",
"word": "viitoittaa"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "install signposts",
"word": "sinalizar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "install signposts",
"word": "ausschildern"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "install signposts",
"word": "beschildern"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "install signposts",
"word": "kitábláz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "install signposts",
"word": "táblával/táblákkal jelez/jelöl"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "install signposts",
"word": "jelzőtáblával/jelzőtáblákkal ellát"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "install signposts",
"word": "sinalizar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "install signposts",
"word": "señalizar"
}
],
"word": "signpost"
}
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