Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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signal | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
provocation | Yes | No | No | No |
signal (noun) | provocation (noun) |
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any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message | unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment |
any incitement to action | needed encouragement |
an electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength) whose modulation represents coded information about the source from which it comes | something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action |
signal (adjective) | provocation (adjective) |
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notably out of the ordinary |
signal (verb) | provocation (verb) |
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communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs | |
be a signal for or a symptom of |