Semaphore is valid Scrabble Word

Is semaphore a scrabble word?
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Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is semaphore valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for SEMAPHORE in dictionary:

VERB:

to signal in this way
send (a message) by semaphore or by signals resembling semaphore
send signals by or as if by semaphore
convey by semaphore, of information
signal (information) by semaphore

NOUN:

a method of signalling with flags
a system of sending messages by holding the arms or two flags or poles in certain positions according to an alphabetic code
an apparatus for sending messages by semaphore, consisting of an upright with movable parts
a signal sent by semaphore
system of signalling by holding two flags in different positions to represent letters of the alphabet

A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.
an apparatus for visual signaling with lights or mechanically moving arms

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

an apparatus for visual signaling (as by the position of one or more movable arms)

Words related to SEMAPHORE

semaphored18 semaphores17 semaphoric19 semaphorically26 semaphoring19

Words that contain SEMAPHORE

semaphored18 semaphores17

How to use SEMAPHORE in a sentence

Had they been easily discouraged we might still be dependent upon the semaphore and the pony express for the transmission of news.
The semaphore as a means of communication was extensively used on land commercially as well as by the army.
A regular semaphore telegraph system, working in relays over considerable distances was in operation in France a century ago.
Other semaphore telegraphs were developed in England.
He was told that the semaphore was all that was required for communication.
Signaling by the two-arm semaphore is the most rapid method of sending spelled-out messages.
For use with General Service Code or semaphore hand flags.
The edifice is surmounted by a spherical cupola that serves as a base to a semaphore provided with masts and rigging.
Ten minutesâ€™ hurried walking brought them to the cliffs, and standing boldly on the verge she enacted, to the great admiration of a small crowd, the part of a human semaphore.
Such was not his purpose, however, for, having attained his greatest possible altitude, he partially sat down and elevated his right arm after the manner of a semaphore.

There was no possibility of making a mistake, because you could see the semaphore from anywhere, and you would know when you got to the town because the road stopped there.
On the roof of the building is a Semaphore telegraph, which communicates orders by signal to the principal ports of the empire.
At one point they were allowed to stand with a semaphore and hold up the crowd, not allowing anyone to pass who could not show a certain number of tags from the various booths.
A rough description of semaphore, too, was constructed on the highest point of the building, by means of which we were able to communicate with the Residency.
Sir Colin, meanwhile, had fixed his Head-Quarters in the Martiniere, on the topmost pinnacle of which he caused a semaphore to be erected for communication with Outram.
If the express had not passed the semaphore she might yet be stopped.
The semaphore was nearly a quarter of a mile from the station, and the arm was down.
A few more steps and the lever that worked the semaphore was in my hands.
I quickly released the wire which held down the distant semaphore arm.
His presence was only discovered through the erratic movements of the hands of the church clock, which he was using to signal his friends by an improvised semaphore code.
Between ships and the land there are used what are called semaphore signals, which are made by means of a mast provided with three arms and a disk placed at the upper part.
Under the same guidance he moulded the steam engine, the typewriter, shorthand, the semaphore, and all kinds of signals.
Searching this glowing Moon surface, our tiny local semaphore beams would certainly pass unnoticed.
This man, having gone outside, had observed a small party of Union troops on the Maryland side of the river who were making semaphore signals to somebody on the Virginia side.
Semaphore telegraphs have been put up on all the high public buildings.
The one in the middle on the tallest camel made a signal with a long strip of cloth waved like a semaphore against the moonlight.
Some passion of want, some sheer intensity of feeling, had found and used its warning semaphore.
On the other side he felt a coarse curtain, and where the semaphore stood, appeared a perpendicular bar of dim light.
Telegraph Hill and its semaphore and time-ball were features of business life.
Blue chins, and sympathy expressed by semaphore action, in the good old time-honoured fashion.
Once he has mastered the mysteries of the Semaphore and Morse codes, the most laborious part of his education is over.
Certainly a horse would have been quite visible, but there was no hint of guns, except a semaphore which announced it was forbidden to pass that way, as the battery was firing.
In the daytime the movable arms of the semaphore indicate by their horizontal, oblique, or vertical position whether the tracks are clear.
To the east, behind the white semaphore on the hills, black clouds crowded up over the horizon.
Pritchett proposes that his apparatus shall give external evidence outside the house by ringing a gong, and by dropping a semaphore arm released by an electromagnet.

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