salute

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When his salute is acknowledged he resumes the carry, faces about, and commands: = 1.

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  1. transitive verb To greet or address with an expression of welcome, goodwill, or respect.
  2. transitive verb To recognize (a superior) with a gesture prescribed by military regulations, as by raising the hand to the cap.
  3. transitive verb To honor formally and ceremoniously.
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  • As far as the salute is concerned, we are ordered to salute in this way and being soldiers we carry out our orders. —  THE BANTAM WAR BOOK SERIES
  • Killeen made a clipped half-salute, a gesture he had perfected.
  • Khanpur has a seventeen-gun salute, which is big for its size--the girl's family was important The Mutiny was a long time ago The Mutiny was yesterday, as far as every white man in the country is concerned. —  The Game--Laurie King--Mary Russell 07
  • He gave a kind of salute, and then he was lost in the shadows. —  Night Cry
  • This is very often confused with the 21 gun salute, which is actually for honors not associated with funerals at all. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
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greet ·  nod ·  salutation ·  courtesy ·  gesture ·  compliment ·  farewell ·  acknowledgment ·  bow ·  cheer ·  kiss ·  reply

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salute:   salutes ·  saluted ·  saluting
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  1. Middle English saluten, from Latin salūtāre, from salūs, salūt-, health; see sol- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin salutare (later Italian salutare = Spanish Provencal saludar = Portuguese saudar = French saluer, later Middle English saluen: see salue), wish health to, greet, salute, from L. salus (salut-), a safe and sound condition, health, welfare, prosperity, safety, a wish for health or safety, a greeting, salute, salutation, from salvus, safe, well: see safe. The English noun is partly from the verb, though in L. the noun precedes the verb. Cf. salute.
  2. from salute, v.
  3. Middle English salut (plural saluz), from Old French salut, saluts, salutz, a coin so called from the salutation of Gabriel to the Virgin Mary being represented on the obverse; literally ‘salutation,’ ‘salute’: see salute.
 

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