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hand-signal

hand-signal verb: to signal by hand.

Verb

hand-signal (third-person singular simple present hand-signals, present participle (US) hand-signaling or (UK) hand-signalling, simple past and past participle (US) hand-signaled or (UK) hand-signalled)

  1. To signal by hand.
    • Before the train passed over any of the level crossings on the branch, it came to a stand, and the guard went forward and hand-signalled it over.1953 November, John Bourne, “The Burry Port & Gwendraeth Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 744

Forms of hand-signal

third-person singular presenthand-signals
present participle UShand-signaling
present participle UKhand-signalling
past participle UShand-signaled
past UShand-signaled
past participle UKhand-signalled
past UKhand-signalled

Origin of hand-signal

Verbal form of the noun hand signal.

Questions about hand-signal

What does hand-signal mean?
Hand-signal means to signal by hand.
What part of speech is hand-signal?
Hand-signal is a verb.
What is the past tense of hand-signal?
The past tense of hand-signal is hand-signaled.

Words near hand-signal in the dictionary

  1. hand-sell
  2. hand-selling
  3. hand-sells
  4. hand-shaker
  5. hand-shakers
  6. hand-signal
  7. hand-signaled
  8. hand-signaling
  9. hand-signalled
  10. hand-signalling
  11. hand-signals

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