Semaphore vs Communicate - What's the difference?
semaphore | communicate |
Any visual signaling system with flags, lights, or mechanically moving arms.
* 2008 , Gene Weingarten, Old Dogs: Are the Best Dogs , Simon & Schuster, page 4 [http://books.google.com/books?id=GOUMoGLf9tYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=gene+weingarten&source=bl&ots=BgRdWbPGYP&sig=gd-Mgu3cNEgerci0w2psNOA6ZjM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GDIVUNqbDcOYqAGZx4HgBQ&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=semaphore&f=false]:
A visual system for transmitting information by means of two flags that are held one in each hand, using an alphabetic and numeric code based on the position of the signaler’s arms.
(computing) A bit, token, fragment of code, or some other mechanism which is used to restrict access to a shared function or device to a single process at a time, or to synchronize and coordinate events in different processes.
(intransitive) To signal using (or as if using) a semaphore.
* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 425:
To impart
# To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) (to) someone; to make known, to tell.
# To impart or transmit (an intangible quantity, substance); to give a share of.
#* Jeremy Taylor
# To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc.
To share
# (obsolete) To share (in); to have in common, to partake of.
#* Ben Jonson
# (Christianity) To receive the bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist; to take part in Holy Communion.
#* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 148:
# (Christianity) To administer the Holy Communion to (someone).
#* Jeremy Taylor
# To express or convey ideas, either through verbal or nonverbal means; to have intercourse, to exchange information.
# To be connected (with) (another room, vessel etc.) by means of an opening or channel.
As a noun semaphore
is .As a verb communicate is
to impart.semaphore
English
(wikipedia semaphore)Noun
(en noun)- Consider the wagging tail, the most basic semaphore in dog/human communication.
Verb
(semaphor)- Minutes later, unseen by the defenders, he semaphored back across the valley that he was going to make a fresh attempt.
communicate
English
Verb
(communicat)- It is vital that I communicate this information to you.
- to communicate motion by means of a crank
- Where God is worshipped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences.
- The disease was mainly communicated via rats and other vermin.
- We shall now consider those functions of intelligence which man communicates with the higher beasts.
- thousands that communicate our loss
- The ‘better sort’ might communicate on a separate day; and in some parishes even the quality of the communion wine varied with the social quality of the recipients.
- She [the church] may communicate him.
- Many deaf people communicate with sign language.
- I feel I hardly know him; I just wish he'd communicate with me a little more.
- The living room communicates with the back garden by these French windows.
