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resignal

resignal verb: to signal again.

Verb

resignal (third-person singular simple present resignals, present participle (US) resignaling or (UK) resignalling, simple past and past participle (US) resignaled or (UK) resignalled)

  1. To signal again
  2. To equip (a railway) with new signalling equipment.
    • The Stage I electrified area has been resignalled throughout with colour-lights, which in due course will be associated with B.R. standard A.W.S., and 27 signalboxes now do the work of the steam age's 56.1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 713
    • This arrangement remains firmly in place 21 years later, although it will almost certainly succumb to being fully resignalled within the next 15-20 years as part of the policy adopted by Network Rail in 2011 to centralise signalling and migrate control of the entire network to 12 Rail Operating...2018 July 18, Paul Stephen, “Shrewsbury's record-breakers”, in RAIL, number 857

Forms of resignal

third-person singular presentresignals
present participle USresignaling
present participle UKresignalling
past participle USresignaled
past USresignaled
past participle UKresignalled
past UKresignalled

Origin of resignal

From re- + signal.

Questions about resignal

What does resignal mean?
Resignal means to signal again.
What part of speech is resignal?
Resignal is a verb.
What is the past tense of resignal?
The past tense of resignal is resignaled.

Words near resignal in the dictionary

  1. resiglitazone
  2. resign
  3. resign oneself
  4. resign'd
  5. resignable
  6. resignal
  7. resignaled
  8. resignaling
  9. resignalled
  10. resignalling
  11. resignals

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