alarm
警报,报警,惊动,闹钟
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Definitions
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- : a sudden fear or distressing suspense caused by an awareness of danger; apprehension; fright.
- : any sound, outcry, or information intended to warn of approaching danger: Paul Revere raced through the countryside raising the alarm that the British were coming.
- : an automatic device that serves to call attention, to rouse from sleep, or to warn of fire, smoke, an intruder, etc.
- : a warning sound; signal for attention.
- : Animal Behavior. any sound, outcry, chemical discharge, action, or other signal that functions to draw attention to a potential predator.
- : Fencing. an appeal or a challenge made by a step or stamp on the ground with the advancing foot.
- : Archaic. a call to arms.
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- : to make fearful or apprehensive; distress.
- : to warn of danger; rouse to vigilance and swift measures for safety.
- : to fit or equip with an alarm or alarms, as for fire, smoke, or robbery: to alarm one's house and garage.
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Examples
The Ring Car Alarm, which will cost $60, is Amazon’s take on the traditional car alarm, and it comes with features like location tracking so people can remember where they parked.
After setup, the drone can be asked to fly directly, or it can fly on its own to visit disturbances detected by Ring alarm systems.
Other Fed officials have also sounded the alarm in recent days.
Those early immune defenses, which set off alarm bells for the body to go on the attack no matter what the invader, may be weaker in older adults.
Hospital and other local officials on both sides of the border raised the alarm that the border itself was facilitating the spread.
On Christmas Day, sometime after dark, a hideous fire overtook the venue: 100 firefighters, 33 fire trucks, a four-alarm blaze.
The airline industry objects that sometimes these deployable recorders can pop out without cause, spreading needless alarm.
Truth be told, there is no one better at capturing the agony and alarm of a woman in the throes of a nervous breakdown than Moore.
If the idea of a religious vigilante ambushing sex workers in his spare time sets off alarm bells, it probably should.
Brown was still sounding the alarm about one particular firm, Booz Allen Hamilton, when he was arrested on September 12, 2012.
Some of the alarm returned, however, when the creature attempted to climb up by his own ladder.
There is cause for alarm when they bring one hundred and ten ships into these seas without any means of resistance on our part.
Her face wore a look of distress, almost of alarm; she kept her place, but her eyes gave Bernard a mute welcome.
The public eye, ever watchful and timid, waits scarcely for the show of danger to take alarm and withdraw its favour.
Some of the soldiers secured the porter from creating an alarm; and the rest filling the hall, fastened the door.