SEMAPHORE LINE Synonyms

• emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design

• a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc.

• plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals

• a rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device

• flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green

• stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones

• a conspicuously marked or shaped tail

• communicate or signal with a flag

• provide with a flag

• droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness

• decorate with flags

• become less intense

• an apparatus for visual signaling with lights or mechanically moving arms

• send signals by or as if by semaphore

• convey by semaphore, of information

• any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message

• any incitement to action

• an electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength) whose modulation represents coded information about the source from which it comes

• notably out of the ordinary

• communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs

• be a signal for or a symptom of

• any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message

• apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code)

• send cables, wires, or telegrams

• a system of conveying information by means of visual signals, using towers with pivoting shutters; information is encoded by the position of the mechanical elements.