SIGNING
Dictionary entry overview: What does signing mean? • SIGNING (noun)
The noun SIGNING has 1 sense:
1. language expressed by visible hand gestures
Familiarity information: SIGNING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SIGNING (noun)
Meaning:
Language expressed by visible hand gestures
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
sign language; signing
Hypernyms ("signing" is a kind of...):
language; linguistic communication (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols)
Meronyms (parts of "signing"):
sign (a gesture that is part of a sign language)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "signing"):
finger spelling; fingerspelling (an alphabet of manual signs)
American sign language; ASL (the sign language used in the United States)
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