semaphore

How To Use semaphore In A Sentence

• Possession of these books allowed British ships or personnel placed ashore to read the signals being relayed by the semaphore stations, which frequently included operational tasking to French fleet units.
• She fans her movements outward toward the sides of the body like a semaphore of swooping and crumpling limbs.
• South Australia also had its own prison hulks, moored at Semaphore.
• He semaphores his designerlyness by wearing flouncy shirts and exuding a faint whiff of camp.
• Theft of the enemy's semaphore codebooks became an important part of the business of war.
• Multitask and semaphore mechanism are used to assure the real time.
• The wait queue is a list of processes blocking on the semaphore.
• It doesn't stop him later that evening from capering madly around the stage, all jack-in-a-box bouncing and extravagant semaphore gestures.
• Chappe moved to a secure semaphore system (the Chappe code assigns numbers to flag positions; the meaning of these numbers is known only to those in charge).
• The signalling system is being upgraded from the mechanical semaphore system to a modern computerised one.