Land, homes, furniture, holidays, cars, food, fashion, sports, anything signifying success and choice are avidly devoured.
During the last stages of his illness, unable to speak, Grant penned a note to his doctor: "A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; to suffer; I signify all three".
Think of the deleted scenes and bloopers as foreplay or crab rangoon or anything that signifies that something bigger and greater and fully baked is coming.
Only the name of the manufacturer, Titleist, was on the ball, but it did not say Pro V1 or Pro V1x or anything that signified exactly what kind of ball he was playing.
Post-normal, atemporal, post-cultural, post-ironic choose your favorite descripost-ironic chooseist: Harambe is an entropic heat death anti-narrative that can mean anyourng while signifavoritething.
One idea that has been used in such characterizations, and that is also present in Aristotle, is that logical expressions do not, strictly speaking, signify anything; or, that they do not signify anything in the way that substantives, adjectives and verbs signify something.
This notion of signification was unanimously accepted; although there was great dispute over what terms signified, there was agreement over the criterion.[15] Ockham, unlike many (but no means all) other medieval logicians, held that terms do not in general signify thought, but can signify anything at all (including things not presently existing).
(Most are redheads, if that signifies anything).
In metaphor, it signifies anything especially tiny.
None of them, however, signifies anything.
It signifies anything from frustration to anger to grief.
