starting signal

Definitions

1. A railway signal controlling the starting of trains from a station or some other location, nowadays usually a colour-light signal.
2. A signal to begin a race.

Equivalents

Examples

“As it happened, however, it was clear enough, when the platform starting-signal was lowered, for the signalman in box No. 5 to see⟳ his advance-starting signal, and he was therefore justified in allowing the train⟳ to go forward⟳, and it was not until it had passed his box that, upon looking out, he saw⟳ that it had disappeared into the bank of fog, which had by that time hidden the advanced starting-signal from his view⟳.”

“At the starting signal, pull⟳ up and back against the underside of the starting platform to get⟳ your body moving forward⟳.”

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