semaphore
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Definition of semaphore
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semaphore
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semaphore 2: alphabet; 3 positions following Z: error, end of word, numerals follow; numerals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0 same as A through J
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The truck hit the rear of the car, rolled onto its side, left the road and hit a semaphore light. — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, "Dump truck driver who died after swerving to avoid crash ID’d as Cottage Grove man," 13 Aug. 2019 Some of our fleeing units had hauled even more frozen Russian bodies out of the woods and propped them upright, their arms stilled in various eerie semaphore. — Arna Bontemps Hemenway, The Atlantic, "Wolves of Karelia," 19 July 2019 At their disposal are agreed-upon symbols and semaphores. — Rick Paulas, Popular Mechanics, "The Graffiti That Will Save Your Life," 22 Feb. 2016 Customers should be advised to bring semaphores in order to gain the attention of the waitstaff, which seems unaccustomed to any action at all and slightly bemused to encounter actual humans in their midst. — Fox, Town & Country, "A Table for Mr. Fox," 21 Nov. 2012 At one point, six of them line up front to back and do a kind of semaphore. — Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, "Boston Ballet opens with high-octane ‘Parts in Suite’," 11 Mar. 2018 Aquatic extinctions happen silently, beneath the surface, lacking any clear semaphore. — Nick Pyenson, Smithsonian, "There Are Possibly Only 30 of These Rare Porposies Left on the Planet," 26 Oct. 2017 When inflated, they can also be used as fishing bobbers or signaling devices for semaphore, according to SensiblePrepper. — Alex Williams, New York Times, "How to Survive the Apocalypse," 23 Sep. 2017 Some towns used a clockwork device with no lights at all, while others used the semaphore system, with Stop and Go placards rotating in and out of a housing like mechanical arms. — Bob Sorokanich, Car and Driver, "Traffic Signals Were a Flippin’ Mess in the 1930s [Video]," 20 Sep. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'semaphore.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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