Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to a semaphore or to semaphores; telegraphic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a semaphore, or semaphores; telegraphic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective using
semaphore - adjective involving
waving the arms, as if using semaphore
Etymologies
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Examples
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Requisite disclaimer: The following is not an endorsement of Sarah Palin's views, merely a cultural deconstruction of the semaphoric qualities of the title of her new book.
Adam Hanft: Title Genius; Peeling Back the Language of America By Heart Adam Hanft 2010
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Requisite disclaimer: The following is not an endorsement of Sarah Palin's views, merely a cultural deconstruction of the semaphoric qualities of the title of her new book.
Adam Hanft: Title Genius; Peeling Back the Language of America By Heart Adam Hanft 2010
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Requisite disclaimer: The following is not an endorsement of Sarah Palin's views, merely a cultural deconstruction of the semaphoric qualities of the title of her new book.
Adam Hanft: Title Genius; Peeling Back the Language of America By Heart Adam Hanft 2010
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Requisite disclaimer: The following is not an endorsement of Sarah Palin's views, merely a cultural deconstruction of the semaphoric qualities of the title of her new book.
Adam Hanft: Title Genius; Peeling Back the Language of America By Heart Adam Hanft 2010
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You, on the other hand, do not claim the semaphoric use of electricity.
Letters and Journals 02] Morse, Samuel F B 1914
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His face, death-like in its pallor, flashed before and above her like a semaphoric sign of imminent danger.
Phantom Wires A Novel Arthur Stringer 1912
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The coloured woman leaped into the air like an athlete, and, turning with a swiftness astounding in one of her weight, beheld the semaphoric arm of Gipsy again extended between the bars and hopefully reaching for her.
Penrod and Sam Booth Tarkington 1907
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"Now's your time, sir," roared the semaphoric policeman.
The Firm of Girdlestone Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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One of the advancing figures lifted a semaphoric arm.
Bertram Cope's Year Henry Blake Fuller 1893
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Near this place formerly arose a great semaphoric telegraph with its gaunt arms tossed up against the horizon.
Urban Sketches Bret Harte 1869
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