simple past tense and past participle of semaphore

(transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To signal using, or as if using, a semaphore, with the implication that it is done nonverbally.

Any equipment used for visual signalling by means of flags, lights, or mechanically moving arms, which are used to represent letters of the alphabet, or words.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of semaphore

plural of semaphore

using semaphore / involving waving the arms, as if using semaphore

By means of a semaphore.

present participle of semaphore

Alternative form of semaphoric

Alternative form of semaphoront