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  • n  an apparatus for visual signaling with lights or mechanically moving arms
  • v  send signals by or as if by semaphore
  • v  convey by semaphore, of information

  • Instead of pigeons, he has a semaphore to flash messages across the English channel.
  • And why are he and his aides waving them before the media like so many semaphore flags? (See PTI's Person of the Year, People Who Mattered, and more.
  • He had arrived at the image by combining the semaphore signals for the letters N, for nuclear, and D, for disarmament.
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  • Chuck Reed in CBS 5
    Bob and Mark's discovery will further attract attention to San Jose Semaphore and help elevate its status as a beacon for downtown San Jose,Reed said.
  • Chris Munce in Sydney Morning Herald
    It [Mimi Lebrock] spotted the semaphore board,Munce said. "It has cost it the race for sure. It ducked out two or three horses."
  • Gordon Brown in Aljazeera.net
    Project Semaphore, which will be underway by the end of the year, is a key first step in putting in place comprehensive electronic analysis of passenger travel data, which will be crucial to being able to register entry and exit without gross... David Blunkett http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blunkett&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHDZVG2bWaXHBAJdI9BDfYRNHPCuw BBC News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3700232.stm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEbZaxz09OzJs6O1oADh6sJaPpxaw Sep 29, 2004 87998 117370 semblance Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, said on Friday that if the 2010 elections are to have any semblance of credibility, she and all political prisoners must be freed to participate".

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