Word Meanings - SEMAPHORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.

Related words: (words related to SEMAPHORE)

• OSCILLATING
  That oscillates; vibrating; swinging. Oscillating engine, a steam engine whose cylinder oscillates on trunnions instead of being permanently fixed in a perpendicular or other direction. Weale.
• SIGNALIZE
  1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
• GIVES
  Fetters.
• TELEGRAPHIC
  Of or pertaining to the telegraph; made or communicated by a telegraph; as, telegraphic signals; telegraphic art; telegraphic intelligence.
• GIVING
  1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving
• OSCILLATING CURRENT
  A current alternating in direction.
• FLAGSHIP
  The vessel which carries the commanding officer of a fleet or squadron and flies his distinctive flag or pennant.
• OSCILLATOR
  Any device for producing electric oscillations; esp., an apparatus for generating electric waves in a system of wireless telegraphy. An instrument for measuring rigidity by the torsional oscillations of a weighted wire.
• SIGNALLY
  In a signal manner; eminently.
• TELEGRAPHONE
  An instrument for recording and reproducing sound by local magnetization of a steel wire, disk, or ribbon, moved against the pole of a magnet connected electrically with a telephone receiver, or the like.
• SIGNAL
  1. A sign made for the purpose of giving notice to a person of some occurence, command, or danger; also, a sign, event, or watchword, which has been agreed upon as the occasion of concerted action. All obeyed The wonted signal and superior voice
• OSCILLATIVE
  Tending to oscillate; vibratory. I. Taylor.
• FLAGSTAFF
  A staff on which a flag is hoisted.
• GIVER
  One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes. It is the giver, and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the Christian. Kollock.
• TELEGRAPHER
  One who sends telegraphic messages; a telegraphic operator; a telegraphist.
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• TELEGRAPHY
  The science or art of constructing, or of communicating by means of, telegraphs; as, submarine telegraphy.
• TELEGRAPH PLANT
  An East Indian tick trefoil , whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like the arms of a semaphore, and also rotate on their axes.
• SIGNALITY
  The quality or state of being signal or remarkable. Sir T. Browne.
• TELEGRAPHOSCOPE
  An instrument for telegraphically transmitting a picture and reproducing its image as a positive or negative. The transmitter includes a camera obscura and a row of minute selenium cells. The receiver includes an oscillograph, ralay, equilibrator,
• PANTELEGRAPH
  See TELEGRAPH
• TERGIVERSATOR
  One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
• THANKSGIVING
  1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee
• ALMSGIVING
  The giving of alms.
• MISGIVING
  Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South.
• BLACK FLAGS
  An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their
• BLOCK SIGNAL
  One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block system. The signal is often so coupled with a switch that act of opening or closing the switch operates the signal also.
• FUNGIVOROUS
  Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.
• REGIVE
  To give again; to give back.
• FORGIVER
  One who forgives. Johnson.
• OGIVE
  The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally.
• RADIOTELEGRAPHY
  Telegraphy using the radiant energy of electrical waves; wireless telegraphy; -- the term adopted for use by the Radiotelegraphic Convention of 1912.
• THANKSGIVER
  One who gives thanks, or acknowledges a kindness. Barrow.