It's a mysterious mechanism that allows this to happen, a gestural form of communication that has no international semaphore.
Cameron demonstrated yet again that for him sleeves rolled up and no jacket semaphores getting down to business.
It cinches the beat no less than the flamboyant semaphore of his gestures, and the cut-and-thrust of his pelvic moves.
Lots of us saw blind, ugly panic during the '70s gas crises — long lines, fistfights, color-coded flags that signaled who might buy on which day, or the dreaded semaphore of the red flag: No Gas.
"I wanted to make a piece that possessed, in the words of Thomas Pynchon, 'a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning, of an intent to communicate.' My hope is that when you look at the Semaphore, even if you have no idea what it is, that you wonder: is that thing trying to tell me something?
The song, which is uncharacteristically oblique, is an attempt to deconstruct Morecambe and Wise's high jinks — their dreamscape of caprice, in which gestures become a semaphore of joy, and ignorance, insult, humiliation, and ambition have no consequences but delight.
Another limitation is the lack of semaphore or locking primitives for shared writable memory, so threads have no mechanism to coordinate memory writes and prevent one thread from overwriting another.
(Before that, semaphore).
That the practice of letter-writing is roughly as relevant to a child of the 21st century as the practice of semaphore was to a child of the 20th is a painful fact, but there is no use denying it.
Mariah Carey's smile is a complicated semaphore.
