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  1. semaphored: Merriam-Webster
  2. semaphored: Collins English Dictionary
  3. semaphored: Vocabulary.com
  4. semaphored: Wordnik
  5. semaphored: Wiktionary
  6. semaphored: Dictionary.com
  7. semaphored: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. semaphored: Legal dictionary

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  1. semaphored: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (semaphore)

noun:  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.
noun:  A visual system for transmitting information using the above equipment; especially, by means of two flags held one in each hand, using an alphabetic and numeric code based on the position of the signaller's arms; flag semaphore.
noun:  (programming) A bit, token, fragment of code, or some other mechanism which is used to restrict access to a shared function or device to a single process at a time, or to synchronize and coordinate events in different processes.
verb:  (ambitransitive, figurative) To signal using, or as if using, a semaphore, with the implication that it is done nonverbally.
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