Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A light, shown especially at night, either alone or with others, to make signals. Compare
signal-lamp .
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Examples
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Sparks said traffic engineers who control things like signal-light timing are monitoring what's happening at the Norbeck bottleneck and can make adjustments.
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Sparks said traffic engineers who control things like signal-light timing are monitoring what's happening at the Norbeck bottleneck and can make adjustments.
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Sinon, as it had been arranged with him, secretly showed a signal-light to the Hellenes.
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If those ships guarding the river's mouth were only anchored, our problem would have been simplified; but they were constantly shifting, and as they showed no sailing lights, no telling where, after a signal flashed, they would fetch next up; and always, showing no signal-light whatever, would be the others guarding what they would like to have us mistake for an open passage in the dark.
Wide Courses 1912
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In a minute more, the major and the captain were crawling over the rocks and through the brush, directly for the place whence the signal-light had appeared.
An Undivided Union Edward Stratemeyer 1896
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They were burning a coloured signal-light on board of the vessel.
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They were burning a coloured signal-light on board of the vessel.
The Captain of the Polestar Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Star-like, Barbara's signal-light flamed out into the gloom, with its eager message.
Flower of the Dusk Myrtle Reed 1892
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So would be the hovering boat -- the signal-light and -- yes! this sound overheard of steps on a rattling planking.
The Woman in the Alcove Anna Katharine Green 1890
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Over on Sumter's walls the signal-light was being waved.
Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman William Elliot Griffis 1885
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