SIGNER (signer)

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Irregular inflected form: signer   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does signer mean? 

• SIGNER (noun)
  The noun SIGNER has 2 senses:

1. someone who can use sign language to communicate

2. someone who signs and is bound by a document

  Familiarity information: SIGNER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIGNER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who can use sign language to communicate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("signer" is a kind of...):

communicator (a person who communicates with others)

Derivation:

sign (communicate in sign language)

sign (communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who signs and is bound by a document

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

signatory; signer

Hypernyms ("signer" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "signer"):

cosignatory; cosigner (one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration))

cosigner (a signer in addition to the principal signer (to verify the authenticity of the principal signature or to provide surety))

abhorrer (a signer of a 1679 address to Charles II in which those who petitioned for the reconvening of parliament were condemned and abhorred)

endorser; indorser (a person who transfers his ownership interest in something by signing a check or negotiable security)

attestant; attestator; attestor; witness ((law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature)

Derivation:

sign (be engaged by a written agreement)

sign (mark with one's signature; write one's name (on))

sign (engage by written agreement)

sign (approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation)

 Context examples 

Allen says the document "scrambles the names of the signers" and "they are no longer grouped by state."

(Parchment Copy of Declaration of Independence Found in Small British Town, VOA)

One group was made up of participants who were fluent in ASL, while the other was made up of non-signers.

(The Rhythms of Sign Language, NSF)

While the ASL-fluent and non-signer groups demonstrated entrainment, it was stronger in the frontal cortex for ASL-fluent participants, compared to non-signers.

(The Rhythms of Sign Language, NSF)

The authors postulate that frontal entrainment may be stronger in the fluent signers because they are more able to predict the movements involved and therefore more able to predict and entrain to the rhythms they see.

(The Rhythms of Sign Language, NSF)