The difference between Signify and Spell
When used as verbs, signify means to give (something) a meaning or an importance, whereas spell means to put under the influence of a spell.
Spell is also noun with the meaning: words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
check bellow for the other definitions of Signify and Spell
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Signify as a verb:
To give (something) a meaning or an importance.
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Signify as a verb:
To show one's intentions with a sign etc.; to indicate, announce.
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Signify as a verb:
To mean; to betoken.
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Signify as a verb:
To make a difference; to matter (in negative or interrogative expressions).
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Spell as a noun:
Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
Examples:
"He cast a spell to cure warts."
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Spell as a noun:
A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
Examples:
"under a spell"
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Spell as a noun (obsolete):
Speech, discourse.
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Spell as a verb:
To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
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Spell as a verb (obsolete):
To speak, to declaim.
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Spell as a verb (obsolete):
To tell; to relate; to teach.
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Spell as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.
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Spell as a verb (transitive, sometimes with “out”):
To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
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Spell as a verb (intransitive):
To be able to write or say the letters that form words.
Examples:
"I find it difficult to spell because I'm dyslexic."
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Spell as a verb (transitive):
Of letters: to compose (a word).
Examples:
"The letters “a”, “n” and “d” spell “and”."
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Spell as a verb (transitive, figuratively):
To indicate that (some event) will occur.
Examples:
"This spells trouble."
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Spell as a verb (transitive, figuratively, with “out”):
To clarify; to explain in detail.
Examples:
"Please spell it out for me."
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Spell as a verb:
To constitute; to measure.
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Spell as a verb (transitive):
To work in place of (someone).
Examples:
"to spell the helmsman"
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Spell as a verb (transitive):
To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
Examples:
"They spelled the horses and rested in the shade of some trees near a brook."
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Spell as a verb (intransitive, colloquial):
To rest from work for a time.
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Spell as a noun (rare):
A (of work); a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
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Spell as a noun (informal):
A definite (of work or other activity).
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Spell as a noun (colloquial):
An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); a relatively short distance.
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Spell as a noun:
A period of rest; time off.
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Spell as a noun (colloquial, US):
A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
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Spell as a noun (cricket):
An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
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Spell as a noun (dialectal):
A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
Examples:
"rfquotek Holland"
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Spell as a noun:
The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.