semaphore
1
8.5
- noun
- /ˈsɛmɪˌfɔr/
- Archaic
:
semaforo
- The monkey holds up cue cards, which the octopus reads, and then waves nautical semaphore flags.
- semaphore station
Very practical actually, like semaphores or an aquifer.
- Very practical actually, like semaphores or an aquifer.
Examples
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In Minnesota, county highway engineers would have torn those down long ago, replaced them with four $30,000 semaphores at each intersection, widened the street, and torn down every tree for a hundred feet, all in the interest of highway safety.
Fiction book (1998) -
I thought of the arms of the semaphore.
Fiction book (1990) -
Some versions the Java library does this as well, allows you to initialize A semaphore with a negative number.
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This can manage simple interlocks or counted semaphores.
Blog text (20) -
The horse track to Gorky Street stuck the blue light on the car roof, leaned on his horn, and raced down the middle lane while traffic officers, like so many semaphores in slickers and batons, cleared the way ahead.
Fiction book (1992) -
The ship used a semaphore to communicate its location to the coastguard.
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During the night, the lighthouse switched to semaphore signals to warn incoming vessels of the rocky coastline.
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From a distance, I could see the semaphore arms moving to signal the train schedule.
Synonyms
A tower with moving arms that shows messages to people far away
A flag you wave to send messages to people far away
Compounds
- Archaic
A way to send visible messages over long distances using towers with moving arms
How Visible
65
1.8
66
4.3
1
3.2
- Archaic
1
8.5
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Semaphore comes from the Greek parts sema 'sign' and phoros 'bearer', so it literally means a 'sign-bearer' and refers to a device that carries visual signs to show information over a distance.