semaphore
noun
an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
semaphored
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past participleof semaphore.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof semaphore.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
semaphorenounan apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
Example Sentences
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The start of today’s race has been semaphored and a group of six riders have attacked off the front of the bunch.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2019
With these ones ripped up and destroyed, and made into something else entirely, they perhaps semaphored a new era.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 9, 2014
Elsewhere in the opening episode nothing happened that wasn't first semaphored in the previous scene.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2011
Then, languidly raising his hairy legs and wagging them like flags, the old hand semaphored a request for jam to a pal in the port mizzen.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had hardly made a cable's length, however, when the Captain received a message semaphored from the quay to the effect that his agent had secured enough goods to complete his freight.
From The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas by Mrs. Herbert Strang
