Q. Do you think the bar code flag will be adopted?

He saw the bright string of code flags fluttering.

Code flag alfa/alpha also represents the letter 'A' in signalling.

It means that each nation has its own abstraction of its flag as a component of the bar code flag.

There was a little group of men gathered on the fo'c's'le ready for anchoring and the four international code flags flying from the yardarm.

International code flag "Alpha" (White hoist, blue swallowtail fly)

The interesting part would begin when they recognized his personal code flags and the Truce flags flying from Charger's masthead.

And with that he called a hand, gave him the code flags, and stepped himself to the main signal halliards, which vibrated under the weight of the ensign overhead.

A dan is a marker buoy which consists of a long pole moored to the seabed and fitted to float vertically, usually with a coded flag at the top.

Internationally, the code flag alfa/alpha, which is white and blue, is used to signal that the vessel has a diver down and other vessels should keep well clear at slow speed.

Additional information such as grammatical category and word frequency can also be accessed via the tree structure, and a set of coded flags was developed to provide details about compounds and case.

The International Code of Signals was preceded by a variety of naval signals and private signals, most notably Marryat's Code, the most widely used code flags prior to 1857.

There would have to be a violin room (visiting musicians were offered a selection of Stradivari and Guarneri), a roof equipped for deck tennis and a place to store "code flags, for signaling orders to the yacht."

Critics and columnists throughout Europe are still asking that, now that Mr. Koolhaas has unveiled his creation, a bar code flag that will, or will not - the debate continues - replace the circle of 12 gold stars against regal blue that was adopted in 1986 as a symbol of the emerging union.