It is the actor's art to find the conventional sign.

The subtraction gives the conventional sign to the equation of time.

The various features shown on the map are represented by conventional signs or symbols.

But only a mental content or conventional sign, not a substance, is of such nature as to be predicated.

Identify the conventional signs in use on air maps.

The children punched air, made conventional signs of ecstasy.

Yet there are no conventional signs of concern.

There are, however, three conventional signs that can be exchanged between partners:

Because in most cases the parents do not sign the children are also not exposed to a conventional sign language.

Some towns have turned them down; others are negotiating everything from a quota for conventional signs to the brightness of the digital images.

It is in this sense that language is a system of conventional signs, even though the signs were at first arbitrary.

When the army sergeant salutes his officer he is performing, giving the conventional sign that describes the hierarchical relationship between the two men.

In his fundamental books of the 1860's and 70's, language was defined as a system of arbitrary and conventional signs.

An actor in desperate earnest himself, he must have be- lieved in the absolute value of conventional signs.

The internal correspondence employed encryption, conventional signs, and fake personal and committee names.

Everything is done in pantomime in Naples, and that is the conventional sign for hunger.

Hathor now wore her conventional sign of the cat instead of the Horus mask.

Joint authorship of a work shall belong to the persons under whose names, pseudonyms or conventional signs it has been used.

A cross-hatched area that might be a conventional sign for a city, and what seems to be a road leading from it, the trail we followed.

"The use of conventional signs is my definition of writing," Dr. Urton said.

Lieutenant D'Hubert's face exhibited no conventional signs of gladness.

So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply "They are merely conventional signs! "

The marquee has another strategic advantage that conventional signs cannot offer: advertising directly over pedestrians' heads on a constantly crowded sidewalk.

For as long as utterances needed to be emotionally expressive and convincing, it was not possible to complete the transition to purely conventional signs.

There are conventional signs for syllables and logograms which act as word signs or for their rebus content.