Difference between Signifier and Form

What is the difference between Signifier and Form?

Signifier as a noun is the sound of spoken word or string of letters on a page that a person recognizes as a sign. while Form as a noun is the shape or visible structure of a thing or person.

Signifier

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The sound of spoken word or string of letters on a page that a person recognizes as a sign.

Form

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages.Characteristics not involving atomic components.A criminal record.A class or year of students (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in ).

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To give shape or visible structure to (a thing or person).To take shape.To develop a conception in mind.To change a word by inflection.

Example sentence: I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

We hope you now know whether to use Signifier or Form in your sentence.

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