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How to use semaphore in a sentence

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Throwing the balls out to the players, they hold their hands in the air like a secret sporting semaphore.
The signalling system is being upgraded from the mechanical semaphore system to a modern computerised one.
By that time electronic telegraph was in the ascendent, and would grow to supplant the European semaphore networks.
Devices like this were not some kind of semaphore code, but simple, effective images that we could easily respond to.
It doesn't stop him later that evening from capering madly around the stage, all jack-in-a-box bouncing and extravagant semaphore gestures.
Use of semaphore flags was limited to within range of telescopes in earlier days and binoculars today.
The development of spin off technologies, such as the telegraph and semaphore flags, linked Civil War commanders on the first information net.
I have stood on the shed and waved my arms about the place making ham-fisted attempts at semaphore.
She fans her movements outward toward the sides of the body like a semaphore of swooping and crumpling limbs.
Theft of the enemy's semaphore codebooks became an important part of the business of war.
The semaphore arms, or trafficators, disappeared as the new winkers were gradually fitted to the fleet.
Later, runners, telegraph, semaphore, heliograph and line were used to communicate.
Root may be able to reduce the security level by taking advantage of an integer overflow when the semaphore limits are made very large.
Its cobbled streets lead to the El Atiqa mosque, the oldest in the city and on to the old semaphore platform.
They rely on team-mates at the other end to direct them, using highly untechnical language plus a kind of bowling semaphore for the hard-of-hearing.
Rochlitz doesn't know what to do with the chorus, who strut in formation and communicate in semaphore, though he is insightful when it comes to the principals.
The wait queue is a list of processes blocking on the semaphore.
During the First World War, signals troops transmitted messages by telephone, heliograph, semaphore and runner.
Bloggers and tweeters are quoted freely as semaphore from the streets.
She is an expert blinker and semaphore signaler and in these two ways she can communicate with the ships whenever they are in the harbor.
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The battery in general was also put through a strenuous course in the use of the semaphore and the wigwag.
You should have seen his face when the semaphore went behind the gate-post.
Rare is it that you do not see a semaphore or an ardois combination flashing.
Sorry, but we don't have staff to receive snail-mail, faxes, smoke signals, semaphore or heliograph.
A semaphore is a kernel object that one or more processes can acquire or release for synchronization or mutual exclusion purposes.
And again, with slow-moving white arms she began to semaphore.
Each company had been teaching all the men the semaphore code.
You ought to wear a semaphore with a red lamp burning at the end of it.
A second method of signaling was by the use of the semaphore.
Delivering decades' worth of late post would itself be problem enough, but it is in the interests of the unscrupulous semaphore company that he fail.
Youngsters who visited the Bailiffgate Museum Gallery, in Alnwick, were able to learn about semaphore railway signals, with the help of ICE North East volunteers.
Utilize Semaphore for enabling effective migration, records retention, disposition, and data loss prevention within SharePoint.
The Semaphore established from kedgeree to Calcutta, is of very great advantage to the shipping interest of the place.
The British Home Office has awarded IBM a support deal to extend the use of its Semaphore border system, following the cancellation of the e-Borders contract.
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