Word Meanings - SIGNALIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who makes signals; one who communicates intelligence by means of signals.

Related words: (words related to SIGNALIST)

• INTELLIGENCER
  One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger. All the intriguers in foreign politics, all the spies, and all the intelligencers . . . acted solely upon that principle. Burke.
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• INTELLIGENCE
  1. The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding. 2. The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment. And dimmed with darkness their intelligence. Spenser. 3. Information
• LIGHT SIGNALS
  A system of signaling in which balls of red and green fire are fired from a pistol, the arrangement in groups denoting numbers having a code significance.
• MISINTELLIGENCE
  1. Wrong information; misinformation. 2. Disagreement; misunderstanding.
• UNINTELLIGENCE
  Absence or lack of intelligence; unwisdom; ignorance. Bp. Hall.