Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which makes signals; a person or an instrument employed in signaling.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who signals.
  • noun A device that sends a signal.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who communicates by signals

Etymologies

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to signal + -er

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Examples

  • Especially, I suspect, a signaler to law clerks who have just come off journals where obsessive BB compliance was expected, and are now exposed to a constant stream of briefs with random or incoherent citation formats.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Case for Abolishing the Bluebook 2010

  • Especially, I suspect, a signaler to law clerks who have just come off journals where obsessive BB compliance was expected, and are now exposed to a constant stream of briefs with random or incoherent citation formats.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Case for Abolishing the Bluebook 2010

  • One lance corporal, a signaler who had not been assigned to advance, watched his friends try to cross, only, he said, to be “mown down like meadow grass.”

    The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

  • After Comey stops an erupting volcano from killing anyone, he receives a call via his JLA signaler that Hawkman gave him, and he disappears.

    Archive 2009-05-01 rob! 2009

  • They effect a change in others: they may decrease social distance between the signaler and those around him, calling someone closer; or increase social distance, frightening someone away.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • After Comey stops an erupting volcano from killing anyone, he receives a call via his JLA signaler that Hawkman gave him, and he disappears.

    Super-Team Family #13 - Nov. 1977 rob! 2009

  • They effect a change in others: they may decrease social distance between the signaler and those around him, calling someone closer; or increase social distance, frightening someone away.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • Equip each of these with a driver, navigator, weapons handler and signaler.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » WW question from Jose. 2009

  • One important thing to think about when considering what profit opportunity really exists: how does the military compare as a signaler?

    Credentialism Trap Rejoinder, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Paradoxically, according to the Stanford professors who taught Bio 50, cold is actually a more effective signaler for sleep onset, but it could have no relation to melatonin production.

    Tim Ferriss: Relax Like a Pro: 5 Steps to Hacking Your Sleep 2008

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