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Перевод: semaphore
[существительное] семафор ; ручная сигнализация; [глагол] сигнализировать; семафорить
Тезаурус:
- At Chatley Heath, south-west of the village, is a brick tower built in 1823 to relay messages passed by semaphore between Portsmouth and the Admiralty in London.
- As humans we can transmit messages to each other by speaking, writing, morse code, semaphore and smoke signals.
- "The semaphore flags!" she cried suddenly to the Brownies.
- In 1991 there is still a fine example of a GCR signal box at Shireoaks East Junction complete with an array of semaphore signals.
- Another telegraph station in the chain is at Pewley Hill, Guildford, and is now a private dwelling called Semaphore House.
- While it may not now be possible fully to recover their critique of mass culture from the totalizing force of its own negative rhetoric, it is at least possible to regret the ease with which it has been adopted as the convenient apostasy of a new rhetoric, operating as a kind of semaphore, signalling correct positions across great distances with a simplified and purely functional code.
- "No," agreed Cheryl, "and that's the best of all, because Angela's helping me with my semaphore, which is one of the Challenges I'm doing on the Brownie Highway."
- A number of the farms have ornate towers based on Italian belvederes, which local legend says were fitted with semaphore arms to send messages to the tower on Grittleton, even though the Grittleton tower was too short to be seen by any of them.
- She was very good at semaphore and had won the Signaller Badge.
- THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines, the semaphore signals, the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone, yet the long-distance service is faster, more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history, and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high.
- It was long enough to need a semaphore to signal from one end to the other, dark enough so you would never have seen the flags, and so narrow we had to squeeze past the single bed by the door to reach the open land before the next one.
- Built in 1821 as one of 17 semaphore towers, it was equipped with a time-ball in 1854 which drops daily at 1pm down a 15 ft-mast on the roof.
- London's Waterloo City tube line, where the 1940 vintage cars sport NSE livery on the outside and Southern Railway ventilator grilles on the inside, and the individualistic Manchester-Bury line, where Lancashire Yorkshire influence still shines through with battered 1959 BR stock rattling up and down the short, but unique 1,200V DC side contact third rail complete with semaphore signals.
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