Signifier

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  signifier
       n : the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a
           word that can be used to describe or identify something;
           "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a
           stem and a list of inflections to be attached" [syn: {form},
            {word form}, {descriptor}]