Grace Lee Whitney â better known as Captain Kirkâs sometime love interest, Yeoman Janice Rand â died of natural causes at her home in California, her son Jonathan Dweck told the Associated Press.
verb (used with object), codified, codifying. 1. to reduce (laws, rules, etc.) to a code. 2. to make a digest of; arrange in a systematic collection. Origin of codify. 1795-1805.
1 Boasting, bragging, loud talking, rapping, signifying, and, to a degree, playing the dozens have elements of indirection. . . .  2 While signifying is a way of encoding a message, one's shared cultural knowledge is the basis on which any reinterpretation of the message is made. Signifying can affirm, critique, or build community through the involvement of its participants.. ( 2 Carole Boyce Davies, Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture. 3  ABC-CLIO, 2008).  4 Women, and to a certain extent children, commonly use more indirect methods of signifying.