Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
signal . - noun the use of signals in
communications , especially the sending of signals intelecommunications - noun rail transport the signals and associated equipment required for their operation.
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Examples
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It's a great illustration of how we as cyclists can help drivers to not crash into us, and drivers signalling is just the other side of the coin - it's a simple way each driver can help everyone else to not kill them.
A Scintillating Rant About Small Flashing Lights « PubliCola 2010
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Just because signalling is powerful doesn't mean that it follows that reform at the margin is impossible.
Abolish High School?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The reason economists are sympathetic to signalling is that they are very smart (yes, really) and are among the people who probably don't benefit greatly from college, they learned how to think at high school and are mostly self-educated anyway.
Free Education Valued at Cost, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Regarding havoc in signalling, you may be right – and sadly the havoc works both ways.
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In a few slow-motion minutes the name "Aberfan" entered the language as a word signalling the kind of loss too deep to be described directly.
Villages of Britain: The Five Hundred Villages that Made the Countryside by Clive Aslet – review Kathryn Hughes 2010
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NATo's nuclear arsenal thus serves a fundamental political purpose in signalling that aggression would not be tolerated; it would provoke retaliation and unacceptable consequences.
Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Arms Control: Canada and the Western Alliance in 1987 1987
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Then the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) is known to have done this kind general "signalling" - as in the case of the PIDC building blast.
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That would do far more good in signalling to the people there that we’re not the bad guys, than most anything else we could do.
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That would do far more good in signalling to the people there that we’re not the bad guys, than most anything else we could do.
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It's called signalling, and it's not just up to cars.
People Are People: Dealing With It BikeSnobNYC 2010
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