Crossword-Solution: SEMAPHORE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Semaphore | n. | A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SEMAPHORE | anagram | OHSPAREME |
We have 20 clues for the answer “SEMAPHORE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| *Distant communication system | 1 answer |
| Visual signaling apparatus | 1 answer |
| System of signaling. | 1 answer |
| Signaling apparatus. | 1 answer |
| Signal Corps specialty. | 1 answer |
| Old communications system | 1 answer |
| Flagging conversation? | 1 answer |
| Flag-waver's specialty | 1 answer |
| Engineer's guide. | 1 answer |
| Communication means at sea | 1 answer |
| *Army communication? | 1 answer |
| Signal flag. | 2 answers |
| railroad signal | 3 answers |
| Signaling device | 6 answers |
| AN APPARATUS FOR VISUAL SIGNALING WITH LIGHTS OR MECHANICALLY MOVING ARMS | 11 answers |
| Get in Touch | 33 answers |
| Indicator | 47 answers |
| Signal | 75 answers |
| Harbinger | 81 answers |
| Indication | 98 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with SEMAPHORE (5)
Directly ahead of him rose a semaphore, placed at a point where evidently a derailing switch branched from the line.
But at twelve o'clock MacWilliams lowered the glass quickly, with a little gasp of excitement, rubbed its moist lens on the inside of his coat and turned it again toward a limp strip of bunting that was crawling slowly up the halyards of the semaphore.
They were men of a speculative turn, and a recent and somewhat daring speculation in France, connected with the old semaphore telegraph, had rendered it necessary for them to withdraw for a time from their native land.
Chappe, the inventor of the semaphore, tried about the year 1790 to introduce a synchronous electric telegraph, and failed.
Give my love to Lady Brandon, and Agatha, and the dear children; and thanks so much for a very pleasant--” Here the train moved off, and Sir Charles, melting, smiled and waved his hat until he caught sight of Trefusis looking back at him with a grin which seemed, under the circumstances, so Satanic, that he stopped as if petrified in the midst of his gesticulations, and stood with his arm out like a semaphore.
Quotes with SEMAPHORE (3)
They spoke in semaphore, all punctuation unnecessary.“You?”“Great.” They’d trimmed the language to its essentials. Before long it would just be consonants. Then silence.
Geez, what do I need to do, use semaphore? I told you I was unclaimed.
When we neared the orchard a flock of birds lit from its outer rows. They hadn't been there long. The branches shook with their absent weight and the birds circled above in the riddy mackerel sky, where they made an artless semaphore. I was afraid, I smelled copper and cheap wine. The sun was up, but a half-moon hung low on the opposite horizon, cutting through the morning sky like a figure from a child's pull-tab book. We were lined along the ditch up to our ankles in a soup…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1960–2024).