Sign Sentence Examples

There was no sign of anyone.

There was no sign of anyone else about.

She showed no sign of life until he locked the door behind them.

He was alone, and as he alighted from his vehicle carrying his cardboard sign, he spotted them.

His light was off, a sign he'd been sleeping too hard to notice someone come in.

It's a sign of the ultimate respect.

With his left hand he drew Bagration toward him, and with his right, on which he wore a ring, he made the sign of the cross over him with a gesture evidently habitual, offering his puffy cheek, but Bagration kissed him on the neck instead.

Maybe that was a good sign.

That's a sign of a good harvest next year.

Her breath caught as she gazed at him, and she looked for any sign he was still angry at her.

Deidre wasn't certain if there was any affection for his daughter, though his persistence in healing her was a sign of either care or obligation.

When you're done frolicking, I need Alex to sign this.

Before the guns an artillery sentry was pacing up and down; he stood at attention when the officer arrived, but at a sign resumed his measured, monotonous pacing.

The words were the first sign of something very, very wrong.

Helen remained motionless through them all, not once showing the least sign that she realized what was going on.

It has no border guards, only a sign identifying when one has entered Liechtenstein.

Cynthia noticed him picking at his fingers, a sure sign he was a bundle of nerves.

He looked around to make sure he hadn't missed anything else that might give him a sign as to what Darkyn was doing by killing off an Ancient Immortal.

The very fact that we have debated in recent years whether we can use torture to get information that will save lives is a sign of the effects of civilization.

The commander-in-chief made a sign that the men should continue to march at ease, and he and all his suite showed pleasure at the sound of the singing and the sight of the dancing soldier and the gay and smartly marching men.

But the idea he did want her was almost a relief, another sign he was capable of providing at least some form of affection.

He even produced a notebook, a sure sign of expanding curiosity.

I saw a sign back in Kansas last month.

She read the sign.

That's a good sign.

Turning in a full circle, Gabe waited for a sign the deity still sought him.

A Cleveland mother had reported an infant child was taken from his crib while napping yet when Howie was able to enter the location before and during the alleged time, there was no sign of the child.

At the first sign of real trouble, those who weren't had begun to show their true allegiances.

The massive vamp hadn't attacked or turned his back at the first sight of him, a sign Jule took as positive.

He stared into Darian's gold eyes, seeking some sign of the man he'd known.

To make matters worse, half of Bird Song's guests who passed by congratulated him on the debate, a sure sign they hadn't been there.

It was a good sign that the foal would be born soon.

When did you two learn to speak sign language?

Jonathan had taken the time to learn sign language so that he could talk to Alex and she had kept him away from the hospital.

If he couldn't sign it, he simply didn't convey it.

The doctor said a sign she was deteriorating would be hallucinations.

There was no sign of the gentle man who made love to her last night, nothing but the cold, stony features of death.

No sign of what happened remained.

It was a sign, brother.

She made the "c-a," then stopped and thought, and making the sign for eating and pointing downward she pushed me toward the door, meaning that I must go downstairs for some cake.

The dark sky stretched far overhead, no sign of morning yet visible.

To the three of them, the drastic changes that occurred over such a short time span after thousands of years of no change were a warning sign.

Deidre didn't think it was a good sign that she cheered on the Dark One.

He tilted his head in a sign of genuine curiosity.

Gabriel was quiet for a long moment, which she took as a bad sign.

She sucked in a steadying breath, praying any sign of the violence from her last visit was gone.

Some sign he was an Immortal?

It's not a good sign.

He gazed at her, shifting to lean forward, the only sign of his unease.

There was no sign Ne'Rin's betrayal affected him at all.

There was no further sign of either Edith Shipton or the boy.

Fred began eating his cereal, with a serving spoon, a sure sign he wanted to accelerate the process and get on with the day's activities.

There was still no sign of Edith.

Unfortunately, 'No Trespassing' is a more familiar sign to this sport, than this one.

There was no sign of Edith.

He shifted in his seat and rubbed his mouth, a rare sign of his nervousness.

When she spells "milk," she points to the mug, and when she spells "mug," she makes the sign for pouring or drinking, which shows that she has confused the words.

And if Pierre was often struck by Andrew's lack of capacity for philosophical meditation (to which he himself was particularly addicted), he regarded even this not as a defect but as a sign of strength.

God is my witness," and she made the sign of the cross, "I love her so much, and all of you, only Vera...

I keep trying to tell myself that her not telephoning is a good sign.

Taken aback by his anger, she watched him run a hand through his hair in an unusual sign of agitation.

He had a feeling Kisolm, the crown prince of Qatwal, would not even hear him out but would view his attempt to barter peace as a sign of weakness and keep him as a trophy.

She couldn't sleep, even when the computer turned her lights out in the only sign it was bedtime.

The new guest smiled in return but gave no overt sign of knowing the woman.

It was a sure sign he was forgiven for his irreverent try at changing the age-old ritual of greeting card purchasing.

It is a large house, devoid of boarders, though a weathered sign offers such accommodations.

Priscilla handed the Weller a coffee cup without being asked, a sure sign the sheriff was a regular.

Bird Song was as quiet as an empty church with none of the remaining guests in evidence, nor was there any sign the police had returned.

It was the sign of someone with a secret he couldn't risk anyone discovering.

Lana yielded without any sign of hesitation, returning his kisses with timidity born of both inexperience and hunger.

The commo room where he sat was large with marble walls and leather chairs, a sign of the upper class's decadence.

If the flares going up short distance away were any sign, the five men were part of a larger force between them and their destination.

The parking lot was empty, and the only sign of unusual activity was the open gate.

Any sign they were traveling together?

He searched for another hour, finding no sign of human travelers on the trail.

We thought she would be in one of them or at least, would've left some sign she was.

Just give me some sort of sign you're out there.

Just give me some sort of sign.

She leaned back to see Brady's body, praying for a sign he was still alive.

It was dark.  The dual moons of the underworld were high overhead, another sign she hadn't slept more than an hour or two.  The trees overhead hissed as the branches moved like snakes in a soft breeze.  Gabriel held out a hand and pulled her up, silent despite his size and small armory of weapons.

The odd sense of someone following – a sign she now knew was the phantom trailing them - returned.

A faint smile, the first sign of human emotion, crossed its face.

Rhyn stared at him, looking for any sign the death-dealer wasn't his friend.

A quick look around the chamber showed no sign of his mate.

I just need you to sign these papers and I'll be out of your hair.

He had awakened a few moments before the usual time, ordinarily a good sign, but after rubbing open his eyes, he discovered it was a white day, hazy and sultry, without a speck of blue in the sky.

He paused, "You just have to sign the checks."

Can't I just sign for them without having to go through every­thing?

Perhaps if you just sign it....

She accepted his report, not without obvious sadness but with business-like decorum and no sign of tears.

As Dean smeared his whole-wheat toast with a coating of peanut butter, Fred poured the coffee, a sure sign he was looking for a favor.

She noticed that one of the puppies was much smaller than the others, and she spelled "small," making the sign at the same time, and I said "very small."

He winked and made the OK hand sign.

Her sign language vocabulary had increased, but many things were still difficult to understand.

He could hear the strains of some lost cowboy lover coming from Fred's room, a sure sign the door to the old man's room was open.

She took his sarcasm as a sign that he felt better.

Sarah gave him the thumbs up sign.

Your call sign for the radio is Angel.

Just then, Dean noticed a sign for Delbart Regional High School, which serviced the township where young "Mr. Jones," the third guest at Whitney's Motel, was attending school.

He thought he was still in Pennsylvania—he hadn't seen a sign wel­coming him to another state.

Then there's a sign for a rest area so you start to pull in but it's closed.

They climbed the stairs but there was no sign of life and no answer to knocks.

He handed the old man ten dollars and was handed a slip of paper with the phone number from the rental sign Mrs. Glass was apparently an early riser and answered the phone on the second ring.

The first sign of the ground Dean spotted was a rain puddle reflecting the glow from the lights of the plane as the wheels touched the runway—one, two, three times before the tired air­craft glided to the taxiway.

Cynthia laughed, the first sign of life since the ordeal had begun.

It was a good sign.

There was no answer at Collingswood Avenue—not a good sign.

He took a few moments to sign the guest book but didn't bother looking at the names before his.

He was surprised however, when a "For Sale" sign greeted him on the front lawn.

It seems he was in Europe someplace and didn't sign up for the tour in advance so he stopped by Cortez just to see if he could pick up a last minute cancellation.

No sign of number 888, whoever he is?

Fred didn't disagree, a sure sign he too was discouraged.

There was no sign of Cynthia Byrne or another car.

God, I thought I was so damn smart, changing names, changing vehicles and some old guy and a small town detective find me like I've got a sign around my neck.

Fortunately there had been no sign of slain deer or wild dogs.

No. We went riding today and didn't see any sign of wild dogs.

Actually, she only intended to ride along the forest line and see if there was any sign of deer.

Today I signed my name Carmen Pullock and then had to mark through it and sign it with my new name.

Crossing the creek and field to her house, she studied the hillside beyond for any sign of a deer.

I haven't seen any sign of strange dogs around.

Surely she would have had to sign papers if he had changed that.

He left and walked through the snowstorm to the Realtor sign hanging at the end of the long driveway.

One eye still glowed gold, the telltale sign of those born into the White God's family.

A different instinct went off in Darian's mind, one that recognized the look on the Black God's face as being another sign Jenn was in more trouble than expected.

Jenn looked calm, but she was squeezing and releasing her fists in a sign that she was ready to explode.

He'd given no more details, a sign something was up.

There was no sign of her inner angst in her deep brown eyes or on her beautiful features.

She didn't move away from him, the first sign she'd given that maybe she had come to terms with their relationship moving to the next level.

Darian froze, listening for a moment for any sign she was somewhere else in the house.

He stumbled forward at the impact but showed no other sign of faltering.

He moved against her, and she responded, parting her knees and raising her hips in an ancient sign of invitation.

The numbers atop the walls had been doubled, a sign of impending battle.

While you were gone I had the sign painted on Dad's old truck.

The refrigerator was clean and there was no sign of mice or insects.

That was the summer he learned a third language – sign language.

Carmen formed the OK sign with her fingers and winked.

He hadn't seen any bear sign in a long time.

A green sign indicated Huntsville was only 17 miles away.

After thirty minutes she spotted the sign indicating the state highway where she was supposed to turn.

There was no street sign, but according to the map, it had to be the correct road.

A real estate sign advertising a house for sale peeped out from tall grass beside the road.

In pure algebra Descartes expounded and illustrated the general methods of solving equations up to those of the fourth degree (and believed that his method could go beyond), stated the law which connects the positive and negative roots of an equation with the changes of sign in the consecutive terms, and introduced the method of indeterminate coefficients for the solution of equations.'

His own children, who sign deeds along with him, use every mode except Napier, the form now adopted by the family, and which is comparatively modern.

Many rules of etiquette govern the proper conduct of the chopsticks; laying them across the bowl is a sign that the guest wishes to leave the table; they are not used during a time of mourning, when food is eaten with the fingers; and various methods of handling them form a secret code of signalling.

As among most people, a sign on the right side was favourable, but the same sign on the left side unfavourable.

This vas the first and ominous sign of a coming change.

He sees no sign of an attack upon him or his gospel.

Physicians to this day head their prescriptions with a sign that originally meant an invocation to Jupiter, but now represents the word recipe.

We have seen that the starch is preceded by the formation of sugar, and its appearance is now interpreted as a sign of stfrplus manufacture.

Yellowing is a common sign of water-logged roots, and if accompanied by wilting may be due to drought.

The change in the name is the sign of a thorough change, if not in the people themselves, yet in their historical position.

The 10th century is the time of the settlement of the Northmen in Gaul, and of the change in religion and language of which the softening of the name is the outward sign.

A complication is caused by the fact that the consonants are grouped into three classes, to each of which a special tone applies, and consequently the application of a tonal sign to a letter has a different effect, according to the class to which such letter belongs.

She kept going to the door, as if she expected some one, and every now and then she would touch her cheek, which is her sign for her mother, and shake her head sadly.

Taking the bullet she made her habitual sign for SMALL--that is, by pinching a little bit of the skin of one hand.

The deaf child who has only the sign language of De l'Epee is an intellectual Philip Nolan, an alien from all races, and his thoughts are not the thoughts of an Englishman, or a Frenchman, or a Spaniard.

If you can hear me, give me a sign.

Frustrated, Katie looked both directions down the pristine, eerily quiet hallway before following the kid toward the far end, where a bright red exit sign hung over the door.

The placards on each of the other doors were blank, the doors closed with no sign of light around the edges.

He felt dread knot in his stomach at the sign she wasn't going to give Rhyn yet another chance.

He saw no sign of the letter.

Rhyn found he didn't need to respond; Giovanni was capable of discussing himself --and his Hannah --without any sign of stopping.

A stone cottage up the road was the only sign of inhabitation, and a herd of sheep raised their heads as he neared.

Waiting for some sign of rejection, he lowered his head until his lips brushed hers.

He rose and began to pace, the first sign of his anxiety.

She wandered the courtyard, looking for any sign of Ully or anyone she recognized.

Though his side was soaked with blood, he showed no sign of slowing.

Sign away, and I'll get your cash.

The Council wants nothing to do with them and views the presence of your father's betrayer and your people on the planet as a sign the Yirkin are willing to share your planet rather than take it over.

She took that as a good sign.

Just when I think the light is green, you hit the breaks and sling out a caution sign.

Only mankind would consider the ability to destroy the earth, a sign of intelligence - and call it civilization.

He hadn't wanted to admit that the sudden muting of her thoughts was a sign of her sliding into death.

He stared at the flowers, a sign of disorder in his otherwise sterile condo.

Too much was riding on that necklace for her to give any sign she was there for any other reason.

It was the second sign he was serious.

It wasn't a good sign.

The counter was stacked with books, and there was a single chair behind the stand for him to sit and sign.

His gaze was out the window, and he gave no sign he was deceiving her.

She glanced towards the blocky sign as they passed it.

She was gradually accepting his touch, a subtle sign of a thaw she probably didn't realize she was doing.

Put finishing college on hold for awhile, she said without any sign of resentment.

It's a good sign he hasn't.

He fell silent, which she took as a horrible sign.

His solid body was warm at her back, the arm wrapped tightly around her a sign she wasn't going anywhere.

He gave no sign of what he might be thinking.

Visually exploring the interior of the stone cellar, she was unable to find any sign of windows in the wall.

The wall met another, and she quickened her step, scouring the area above her for some sign of a window.

She saw no sign that the kids were here; the place was meticulous.

It was founded on the 16th of July 17 9 1 by several members of the Jacobin Club, who refused to sign a petition presented by this body, demanding the deposition of Louis XVI.

If, for example, the porta hepatis was long on the right side and short on the left side, it was a good sign for the king's army, but if short on the right side and long on the left, it was unfavourable; and similarly for a whole series of phenomena connected with any one of the various subdivisions of the liver.

A sign of industrial development is to be found in the growing number of manufacturing companies, both Italian and foreign.

In these buildings, as in those of Aquitaine, the pointed arch is the surest sign of Saracenic influence; it must never be looked on as marking the approach of the Gothic of the North.

But we see no sign of the growth of a body made up of patricians and leading plebeians who contrived to keep office to themselves by a social tradition only less strong than positive law.

Only in the Urals, the Caucasus, the Timan Mountains, the region of the Donets coalfield, and the Kielce Hills is there any sign of the great folding from which nearly the whole of the rest of Europe has suffered at one time or another.

Having annihilated at Poltava the army of Charles XII., Peter was not at all indisposed to renew the struggle with Turkey, and began the campaign in the confident hope of making extensive conquests; but he had only got as far as the Pruth when he found himself surrounded by a great Turkish army, and, in order to extricate himself from his critical position, he had to sign a humiliating treaty by which Azov and other conquests were restored to the sultan.

In 1773 a Don Cossack called Pugachev, who was so uneducated that he could not even sign the manifestoes written for him, declared himself to be Peter III., and announced that he was going to St Petersburg to punish his faithless wife and place his son Paul on the throne.

He had but one acquaintance in the place, the clerk of the federal court, who permitted him to occupy a desk in his office and place at the door his sign as a lawyer.

This assumption has the great advantage, that the intrinsic energy of a compound relatively to its elements now appears as the heat of formation of the compound with its sign reversed.

With knowledge then of the heats of formation of the substances involved in any chemical action, we can at once calculate the thermal effect of the action, by placing for each compound in the energy-equation its heat of formation with the sign reversed, i.e.

Apart from these bitter provocations - the prohibition of the sign of the covenant and the desecration of the sacred place - the Jews had a leader who was recognized as Messiah by the rabbi Aqiba.

The constellation and sign of the zodiac known as "the fishes" is treated under Pisces.

This quarter of the palace shows the double axe sign constantly repeated on its walls and pillars, and remains of miniature wall-paintings showing pillar shrines, in some cases with double axes stuck into the wooden columns.

The liturgical colour for Easter was everywhere white, as the sign of joy, light and purity, and the churches and altars were adorned with the best ornaments that each possessed.

The third provincial congress, which met on the 21st of August 1775, still required its members to sign an oath of allegiance to King George III.

It appears, therefore, contemporaneously with Christianity, and is a sign of the world-weariness and deep religious need that mark the decay of the old world.

There is no sign that Tauler, for example, or Ruysbroeck, or Thomas a Kempis had felt the dogmatic teaching of the Church jar in any single point upon their religious consciousness.

He was a missionary to the Indians when the prince de Joinville, son of Louis Philippe, met him, and after some conversation asked him to sign a document abdicating his rights in favour of Louis Philippe, in return for which he, the dauphin (alias Eleazar Williams), was to receive the private inheritance which was his.

The Books devoted by Malory to Lancelot are also drawn from this latter section of the romance; there is no sign that the English translator had any of the earlier part before him.

The first sign we have of his interest in economics is a letter (1749) on paper money, written to his fellow student the abbe de Cice, refuting the abbe Terrasson's defence of Law's system.

The revenge of the autocrat was characteristic. Besides driving Stein from office, he compelled Prussia to sign a convention(8th of September) for the payment to France of a sum of 140,000,000 francs, and for the limitation of the Prussian army to 42,000 men.

July and the first decade of August came and went, but brought no sign of pacification.

The taking of the Bastille, however, and the events by which it was preceded, were a sign that the times had changed; and on the 18th of July Desmoulins's work was issued.

Shortly before his death he was forced to sign an agreement whereby the Byzantine empire undertook to pay tribute to the sultan.

In 1792 he joined the allies against France, but in 1799 he was compelled to sign a treaty of neutrality.

About 1220 James of Vitry was already hoping that 4000 knights would, with the assistance of the Mongols, recover Jerusalem; but it is in 1245 that the first definite sign of an alliance with the Mongols appears.

The unbelieving receive the external sign or sacramentum; but the believing receive in addition, although invisibly, the reality represented by the sign, the res sacramenti.

His funeral was a most remarkable display of public esteem, in which nearly all the ruling princes of Germany joined, and was a striking sign of the position to which, after twenty years of incessant struggle, he had raised his party.

Subsequently electrum (an alloy of gold and silver) disappeared as a specific metal, and tin was ascribed to Jupiter instead, the sign of mercury becoming common to the metal and the planet.

The Macedonian kingdoms, strained by continual wars, increasingly divided against themselves, falling often under the sway of prodigals and debauchees, were far 12 sign from realizing the Hellenic idea of sound govern- of ment as against the crude barbaric despotisms of the older East.

The mark set upon Cain is usually regarded as some tribal mark or sign analogous to the cattle marks of Bedouin and the related usages in Europe.

The Turks succeeded in surrounding Peter the Great near the Pruth, and his army was menaced with total destruction, when the Turkish commander, the grand vizier Baltaji Mahommed Pasha, was induced by the presents and entreaties of the empress Catherine to sign the preliminary treaty of the Pruth (July 21, 1711), granting terms of peace far more favourable than were justified by the situation of the Russians.

Meanwhile, within the Ottoman Empire there was every sign of a rapidly approaching disintegration.

When in 1585 John Davis visited it there was no sign of any people save the Eskimo, among whose traditions are a few directly relating to the old Norsemen, and several traces of Norse influence.'

In all benedictions the sign of the cross is made.

At the conclusion the priest, his shoulders wrapped in the humeral veil, takes the monstrance and with it makes the sign of the cross over the kneeling congregation, whence the name Benediction.

But the temperature coefficient of conductivity is now generally less than before; thus the effect of temperature on ionization must be of opposite sign to its effect on fluidity.

Hence, if we assume that, in the Daniell's cell, the temperature coefficients are negligible at the individual contacts as well as in the cell as a whole, the sign of the potential-difference ought to be the same at the surface of the zinc as it is at the surface of the copper.

In the summer of 1864 a sermon which he preached and printed on Baptismal Regeneration (a doctrine which he strenuously repudiated, maintaining that immersion was only an outward and visible sign of the inward conversion) led to a difference with the bulk of the Evangelical party, both Nonconformist and Anglican.

Hence the transposition of columns merely changes the sign of the determinant.

Similarly it is shown that the transposition of any two columns or of any two rows merely changes the sign of the determinant.

Interchange of any two rows or of any two columns merely changes the sign of the determinant.

Now a11A11= alla22a33...ann, wherein all is not to be changed, but the second suffixes in the product a 22 a 33 ...a nn assume all permutations, the number of transpositions necessary determining the sign to be affixed to the member.

We can see that (abc)a x b x c x is not a covariant, because it vanishes identically, the interchange of a and b changing its sign instead of leaving it unchanged; but (abc) 2 is an invariant.

Yet in October 1902 he established a "Commission for the Progress of Biblical Studies," preponderantly composed of seriously critical scholars; and even one month before his death he still refused to sign a condemnation of Loisy's Etudes evangeliques.

The alchemists designated it by the sign of Saturn k.

But no magnet can have a single pole; if there is one, there must also be at least a second, of the opposite sign and of exactly equal strength.

If m, and m 2 are the strengths of two poles, d the distance between them expressed in centimetres, and f the force in dynes, f=ml m2/d2 (I) The force is one of attraction or repulsion, according as the sign of the product m l m 2 is negative or positive.

For small bodies other than spheres the coefficient will be different, but its sign will always be negative for diamagnetic substances and positive for others; hence the forces acting on any small body will be in the same directions as in the case of a sphere' Directing Couple acting on an Elongated Body.

The twist effect exhibited by iron under moderate longitudinal magnetization has been called by Knott a positive Wiedemann effect; if the twist were reversed, the other conditions remaining the same, the sign of the Wiedemann effect would be negative.

For each of the metals tabulated in the first column all the effects hitherto observed have the same sign; there is no single instance in which some are positive and others negative.

Hall, the positive sign indicating that the electromotive force is in the same direction as the mechanical force acting upon the conductor.

The sign of the thermo-electric effect for nickel, as given by Rhoads, is incorrect.

When it rose early it was a sign of summer; when late, of winter and stormy weather; when it rose about midnight it heralded the season of vintage.

He has ever been the patron saint of Mediterranean sailors, who regard St Elmo's fire as the visible sign of his guardianship. The phenomenon was known to the ancient Greeks, and Pliny in his Natural History states that when there were two lights sailors called them Castor and Pollux and invoked them as gods.

Holding fast then on the one hand to the individual as the only true substance, and on the other to the traditional definition of the genus as that which is predicated of a number of individuals (quod praedicatur de pluribus), Abelard declared that this definition of itself condemns the Realistic theory; only a name, not a thing, can be so predicated - not the name, however, as a flatus vocis or a collection of letters, but the name as used in discourse, the name as a sign, as having a meaning - in a word, not vox but sermo.

It is a natural sign representing these singulars, but it has no reality beyond that of the mental act by which it is produced and that of the singulars of which it is predicated.

Signatures to documents of the period are rare; seals served instead of signatures, because most of the nobles were unable to sign their names.

Luynes and the king recalled him to the post at Angouleme with the queen-mother, who received him ungraciously but who soon yielded to his judgment and allowed him to sign the treaty of Angouleme with the Cardinal de la Rochefoucauld, acting for the king.

The king gave a sign of yielding, appointing the brother of Marillac, Marie's counsellor, to the command of the army in Italy.

For many centuries algebra was confined almost entirely to the solution of equations; one of the most important steps being the enunciation by Diophantus of Alexandria of the laws governing the use of the minus sign.

If it is intended that the first number is to be multiplied by the second, a special sign such as X should be used.

The sign X coming immediately before, or immediately after, a bracket may be omitted; e.g.

Sign of Equality.-The various meanings of the sign of equality (_) must be distinguished.

This is a definition of x 3; the sign = is in such cases usually replaced by =.

In the graphic method of representation the sign - may be taken as denoting a reversal of direction, so that, if + 3 represents a length of 3 units measured in one direction,-3 represents a length of 3 units measured in the other direction.

We see first that any operation with 4a-3b can be regarded as an operation with (+)4a+(-)3b, subject to the conditions (I) that the signs (+) and (-) obey the laws (+)=(+),(+)(-)=(-)(+)= (-), (-) (-)=(+), and (2) that, when processes of multiplication are completed, a quantity is to be added or subtracted according as it has the sign (+) or (-) prefixed.

We are then able to combine any number with the + or the - sign inside the bracket, and to deal with this constructed symbol according to special laws; i.e.

It is remarkable that Mobius employs the symbols AB, ABC, Abcd In Their Ordinary Geometrical Sense As Lengths, Areas And Volumes, Except That He Distinguishes Their Sign; Thus Ab = Ba, Abc= Acb, And So On.

Stifel introduced the sign (+) for addition or a positive quantity, which was previously denoted by plus, pia, or the letter p. Subtraction, previously written as minus, mene or the letter m, was symbolized by the sign (-) which is still in use.

He introduced the sign (=) for equality, and the terms binomial and residual.

Madame de Lamotte had told the cardinal that Marie Antoinette would make him a sign to indicate her thanks, and Rohan believed that she did make him a sign.

The component vibrations at P due to the successive zones are thus nearly equal in amplitude and opposite in phase (the phase of each corresponding to that of the infinitesimal circle midway between the boundaries), and the series which we have to sum is one in which the terms are alternately opposite in sign and, while at first nearly constant in numerical magnitude, gradually diminish to zero.

The sum of such a series is very approximately zero, each term being neutralized by the halves of its immediate neighbours, which are of the opposite sign.

In 1726 Antonio was suddenly imprisoned along with his mother on the 8th of August; on the 16th he suffered the first interrogation, and on the 23rd of September he was put to the torment, with the result that three weeks later he could not sign his name.

In times of persecution the martyrs were buried among the rest of the faithful, but one can understand that their tombs, at which gatherings took place at least on the day of their anniversary, were distinguished from the ordinary tombs by some sign.

It seems difficult also to believe that Map's name should be so constantly connected with our Arthurian tradition without any ground whatever; though it must be admitted that he himself never makes any such claim - the references in the romances are all couched in the third person, and bear no sign of being other than the record by the copyist of a traditional attribution.

There is no sign in the Homeric poems of the subordination of medicine to religion which is seen in ancient Egypt and India, nor are priests charged, as they were in those countries, with medical functions - all circumstances which throw grave doubts on the commonly received opinion that medicine derived its origin in all countries from religious observances.

The objects produced show no sign of Venetian influence, but are distinctly Oriental in form.

They are distinguished from the Hindus by no outward sign except a slight laxity in the matter of caste observances.

According to the developed cuneiform system of writing, words may be written by means of a sign (or combination of signs) expressive of the entire word, or they may be spelled out phonetically in syllables.

So, for -example, the word for " name " may be written by a sign MU, or it may be written out by two signs shu-mu, the one sign MU representing the " Sumerian " word for " name," which, however, in the case of a Babylonian or Assyrian text must be read as shumu - the Semitic equivalent of the Sumerian MU.

Thus the name of the deity, which enters as an element in a large proportion of the proper names,' was almost invariably written with the sign or signs representing this deity, and it is only exceptionally that the name is spelled phonetically.

The moon-god Sin is written by a sign which has the force of " thirty," and is a distinct reference to the monthly course of the planet; or the name is written by two signs to be pronounced EN-ZU, which describe the god as the " lord of wisdom."

The god Nebo appears as PA - the sign of the stylus, which is associated with this deity as the originator and patron of writing and of knowledge in general, - or it is written with a sign AK, which describes the god as a " creator."

In many cases, therefore, we may be in doubt how the sign IM is to be read, more particularly since this same god appears to have had other designations besides Ramman and Adad.

Even when the sign indicative of the verb is clearly recognised there still remains to be determined the form of the verb intended.

Similarly in the case of the sign MU, which, besides signifying " name " as above pointed out, is also the Sumerian word for " give," and therefore may be read iddin, " he gave," from nadanu, or may be read nadin, " giver "; and when, as actually happens, a name occurs in which the first element is the name of a deity followed by MU-MU, a new element of doubt is introduced through the uncertainty whether the first MU is to be taken as a form of the verb nadanu and the second as the noun shumu, " name," or vice versa.

Messerschmidt, editor of the best collection of Hittite texts up to date, made a tabula rasa of all systems of decipherment, asserting that only one sign out of two hundred the bisected oval, determinative of divinity - had been interpreted with any certainty; and in view of this opinion, coupled with the steady refusal of historians to apply the results of any Hittite decipherment, and the obvious lack of satisfactory verification, without which the piling of hypothesis on hypothesis may only lead further from probability, there is no choice but to suspend judgment for some time longer as to the inscriptions and all deductions drawn from them.

Under the guidance of such a principle the writer naturally expected the world's culmination in evil to be the immediate precursor of God's intervention on behalf of the righteous, and every fresh growth in evil to be an additional sign that the time was at hand.

The first sign of its presence is the appearance of a minute spot, which is greyish in the centre, with a brown border.

If the configuration of d-saccharic acid were given by either 6 or To, bearing in mind the relation of mannose to glucose, it would then be necessary to represent d-mannosaccharic acid by either 7 or 8 - as the forms 6 and Io pass into 7 and 8 on changing the sign of a terminal group; but this cannot be done as mannosaccharic acid is optically active.

After two hardly fought campaigns (1828, 1829) Mahmud was at length, on the 14th of September 1829, compelled to sign the peace of Adrianople.

Warned by a hurried sign by Hamud that his life was in danger, Mahommed at once attacked Bandar, stabbed him and took possession of the citadel; a general massacre of all members of the house of Ibn Rashid followed, and next day Mahommed appeared with his cousin Hamud in the market-place of Hail, and announced his assumption of the amirship. A strong and capable ruler, he soon established his authority over all northern and western Nejd, and in 1872 the opportunity arrived for his intervention in the east.

The divine chariots and horses that make the round of the world by Yahweh's orders return to the heavenly palace and report that there is still no movement among the nations, no sign of the Messianic crisis.

Being compelled to leave the convention before its adjournment, he did not sign the instrument, but used his influence to secure its ratification by his native state.

The only organs that exhibit any sign of degeneration are those of sense, but in the ectoparasitic Trematodes simple eye-like structures are present and perhaps serve as organs of temperature.

Nor is there any sign of moraines, glacier-scorings or other traces of the ice-age.

Microscopic accuracy has to be attained in cutting out the space for the insertion of the design, and while the latter must be soldered firmly in its place, not the slightest trace of solder or the least sign of junction must be discernible between the metal of the inserted picture and that of the field in which it is inserted.

In November 1677 he married Mary, eldest daughter of James, duke of York, afterwards King James II., and undertook negotiations with England in the following year which forced Louis to make terms and sign the treaty of Nijmwegen in August 1678, which gave Franche Comte and other places in Spanish Flanders to France.

Portions of the pediments of this temple have been found in the excavations; but no sign has been found of the pediments mentioned by Pausanias, representing on the east Apollo and the Muses, and on the west Dionysus and the Thyiades (Bacchantes), and designed by Praxias, the pupil of Calanias.

The sign of the electrification imparted to the electroscope when so charged - that is, whether positive or negative - can be determined by rubbing the sealing-wax rod with flannel and the glass rod with silk, and approaching them gently to the electroscope one at a time.

This experiment proves that when a charged body acts by induction on an insulated conductor it causes an electrical separation to take place; electricity of opposite sign is drawn to the side nearest the inducing body, and that of like sign is repelled to the remote side, and these quantities are equal in amount.

Every tube of electric force must therefore begin and end on electrified surfaces of opposite sign, and the quantities of positive and negative electricity on its two ends are equal, since the force E just outside an electrified surface is normal to it and equal to a/41r, where a is the surface density; and since we have just proved that for the ends of a tube of force EdS = E 1 dS', it follows that adS = a'dS', or Q = Q', where Q and Q' are the quantities of electricity on the ends of the tube of force.

Accordingly, since every tube sent out from a charged conductor must end somewhere on another charge of opposite sign, it follows that the two electricities always exist in equal quantity, and that it is impossible to create any quantity of one kind without creating an equal quantity of the opposite sign.

In the notation of the calculus the relations become - dH/dp (0 const) = odv /do (p const) (4) dH/dv (0 const) =odp/do (v const) The negative sign is prefixed to dH/dp because absorption of heat +dH corresponds to diminution of pressure - dp. The utility of these relations results from the circumstance that the pressure and expansion co efficients are familiar and easily measured, whereas the latent heat of expansion is difficult to determine.

But on the left there was every sign of incipient disaster, and to avert this only the, cavalry were at hand.

Since the accession of the emperors of the Han dynasty, 206 B.C., the civil year of the Chinese has begun with the first day of that moon in the course of which the sun enters into the sign of the zodiac which corresponds with our sign Pisces.

Though the /see' are thus strictly portions of solar time, yet what is remarkable, though not peculiar to China, they give their name to the lunar months, each month or lunation having the name of the chung-ki or sign at which the sun arrives during that month.

It must happen sometimes that in the course of a lunation the sun enters into no new sign; in this case the month is intercalary, and is called by the same name as the preceding month.

The moons of the civil year are also distinguished by their place in the cycle of sixty; and as the intercalary moons are not reckoned, for the reason before stated, namely, that during one of these lunations the sun enters into no new sign, there are only twelve regular moons in a year, so that the cycle is renewed every five years.

Nevertheless, he became more anxious than ever to emancipate himself from French thraldom, and his first sign of independence was his visit to Venice in 1687, where he conferred on political affairs with Prince Eugene of Savoy and other personages, without consulting Louis.

He refused to sign a convention requiring that he should perform his duties only under the authority of the military governor of Brussels, and reserved to himself the rights of a free agent.

Persia indeed for many years showed a strong disposition to reassert the supremacy over Herat which was exercised by the Safawid kings, but great Britain, disapproving of the advance of Persia towards the Indian frontier, steadily resisted the encroachment; and, indeed, after helping the Heratis to beat off the attack of the Persian army in 1838, the British at length compelled the shah in 1857 at the close of his war with them to sign a treaty recognizing the further independence of the place, and pledging Persia against any further interference with the Afghans.

All that is wanting in his writings, especially in his Isagoge in artem analyticam (1591), in order to make them look like a modern school algebra, is merely the sign of equality - a want which is the more striking because Robert Recorde had made use of our present symbol for this purpose since 1 557, and Xylander had employed vertical parallel lines since 1575.

When Pippin was crowned king of the Franks at St Denis on the 28th of July 754 by Pope Stephen II., Charles, and his brother Carloman were anointed by the pope as a sign of their kingly rank.

Without being formally opposed to Robespierre, he did not support him, and he was the only member of the Committee of Public Safety who did not sign the order for the execution of Danton and his party.

It is remarkable that Collier makes no reference to Locke, and shows no sign of having any knowledge of his works.

When, nearer the end of the century (1481-1495), King pitch, and brand themselves with the sign of the cross in token of their baptism "(Libro del conocimiento de todos reynos, &c., printed at Madrid, 1877).

After the battle of Marengo an Austrian envoy had come to Paris in response to a proposal of Bonaparte, and Talleyrand persuaded him to sign terms of peace.

It must be admitted, however, that both the tools and the processes have escaped the archaeologist, as they did "the ablest goldsmiths in Spain, for they never could conceive how they had been made, there being no sign of a hammer or an engraver or any other instrument used by them, the Indians having none such" (Herrera).

Thus he evidently made " the willing covenant " of conscious faith the essence of the matter, and regarded the sign or seal as secondary.

Io, I I it is Jesus who sees the Spirit descending upon Himself on His emerging from beneath the water, and it is to Himself that God's voice is addressed; in John, Jesus' baptism is ignored, only the Spirit remains hovering above Him, as a sign for the Baptist's instruction.

A sign for uv also probably existed, but does not occur in the known inscriptions.

But for very small times the assumption may perhaps be made, and the result at least shows the way in which the velocity is affected by the addition of a small term depending on and changing sign with u.

If we measure t from an instant at which the two trains exactly coincide, then as U for the other train has the opposite sign, its displacement is represented by y2= a sin (x+Ut).

The ordinate of the curve changes sign as we pass through a node, so that successive sections are moving always in opposite directions and have opposite displacements.

In October 1849 Moshesh was induced to sign a new arrangement considerably curtailing the boundaries of the Basuto reserve.

Let t be the statical breaking strength of a bar, loaded once gradually up to fracture (t = breaking load divided by original area of section); u the breaking strength of a bar loaded and unloaded an indefinitely great number of times, the stress varying from u to o alternately (this is termed the primitive strength); and, lastly, let s be the breaking strength of a bar subjected to an indefinitely great number of repetitions of stresses equal and opposite in sign (tension and thrust), so that the stress ranges alternately from s to -s.