fire alarm
火灾报警,火灾警报,火灾警报器,火警警报
Definitions
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- : a signal that warns that a fire has started.
- : a bell, buzzer, siren, horn, etc., that provides such a signal.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
As a 14-year-old interested in cooking, I smoked out many hotel rooms and set off countless fire alarms trying to smoke fish for my family.
It is as though the fire alarm at your workplace was always blaring.
After we fell asleep, the fire alarm in Debra’s studio had started going on and off randomly throughout the night.
As other reviewers have previously noted, people can use Alexa for more complex tasks at home like automatically turning on Internet-connected lights if the assistant hears a fire alarm.
Scientists in Michigan have developed a forest fire alarm system.
But what is there more irresponsible than playing with the fire of an imagined civil war in the France of today?
The cameraman was reporting on the factory catching fire when the inevitable happened.
Lady Edith is so sad that her sadness nearly set the whole damned house on fire.
Maybe Mary is being more realistic about a second marriage—but is it too much to ask for a little fire?
A fire that he insists is only picking up pace, according to top-secret intelligence briefings.
Some of the alarm returned, however, when the creature attempted to climb up by his own ladder.
"A camp-fire would hardly flash and die out like that, Sarge," he answered thoughtfully.
She got up and stood in front of the fire, having her hand on the chimney-piece and looking down at the blaze.
There is cause for alarm when they bring one hundred and ten ships into these seas without any means of resistance on our part.
The fire had been heaped over with earth—to screen it from prying eyes, I suppose, while the good work went on.