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Discover LudwigThe phrase "term signifies" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when defining or explaining the meaning of a specific term or concept. Example: "In this context, the term signifies a fundamental principle of economics."
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The term signifies the formation of genetic mutations.
The term signifies a being unburdened by the expectations of others.
The word century is a clue: although the term signifies a voting unit, it is military in character.
In rhetoric the term signifies the repetition of a word in an altered grammatical function, as in the line "Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death?" from William Blake's poem Jerusalem (1804), in which the word sleep is used as both a verb and a noun.
It's harder to see his connection to Minimalist art, because, at least from an art perspective, the term signifies, among other things, the use of machine-made materials, the lack of human touch, the emphasis on geometric shapes and formal simplicity among sculptors and painters of the 1960's.
For the Middle Ages, a term "signifies" what it makes us think of.
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The word pagan derives from a Latin term signifying a rural dweller.
This one gave new meaning to "evergreen," a journalistic term signifying a feature that can run at any time.
At the time of the adoption of the Constitution 'tonnage' was a well-understood commercial term signifying in America the internal cubic capacity of a vessel.
He turned pro in August 1965, with financial backing from businessmen calling themselves the Cloverlay Group (from cloverleaf, for good luck, and overlay, a betting term signifying good odds).
The event was part of an occasional series of concerts called Tertulia, the name a Spanish term signifying a social gathering with an artistic bent.
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