英和和英

語源

From sign +‎ post.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈsaɪnˌpoʊst/

名詞

signpost (plural signposts)

1. A post bearing a sign that gives information on directions.
   • 2020 November 26, Philip Oltermann in Berlin, “Fugging hell: tired of mockery, Austrian village changes name”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 15 January 2021:

     Dozens of signposts have been stolen, forcing the local authorities to put up the sign at a 2m height and embed it in theft-resistant concrete when putting up replacements.

2. (crosswording) A word or phrase within a clue that serves as an indicator, rather than being fodder.
   • 2012, David Astle, Puzzled: Secrets and clues from a life in words:

     In the first example — Dance revolutionised Burma — you know the middle word is the signpost as revolutionised is too long to be the fodder (or letters to scramble). […] And bang, out jumps RUMBA.

動詞

signpost (third-person singular simple present signposts, present participle signposting, simple past and past participle signposted) (transitive)

1. (chiefly passive voice) To install signposts on.

   The route wasn't signposted, and we got lost on the way.

2. (figuratively)
   1. To direct (somebody) to services, resources, etc.
      • 2008, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee, Valuing and Supporting Carers (volume 1, page 31)

        We believe that some Carers' Centres already offer an effective 'first stop shop' for signposting carers to local organisations, services and benefits, and for providing ongoing support as carers' circumstances change.

   2. To signal (something) intentionally, as if with a signpost.

      Coordinate term: telegraph

      Hypernym: signal

      1. To indicate (as the logical progress of a discourse) using words or phrases such as now, right, to recap, to sum up, as I was saying, etc.
         • 2013 August 8, Charlotte Mulcare, “The lost mathematicians: Numbers in the (not so) dark ages”, in plus.maths.org‎, retrieved 8 September 2013:

           Bede, never one to shrink from a challenge, focused his energies not only onto calculating Easter but also onto describing why the maths mattered as much as the result. In this, his elevated rhetoric is balanced by a very human enthusiasm — it's hard not to love a writer who signposts his core hypotheses with phrases such as 'now to gut the bowels of this question!'

派生語

参考

• fingerpost
• guidepost
• waymark

アナグラム

• postings, stop sign, stopings, stopsign