siren
警报器,警笛声,警笛,报警器
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Definitions
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- : Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- : a seductively beautiful or charming woman, especially one who beguiles men: a siren of the silver screen.
- : an acoustical instrument for producing musical tones, consisting essentially of a disk pierced with holes arranged equidistantly in a circle, rotated over a jet or stream of compressed air, steam, or the like, so that the stream is alternately interrupted and allowed to pass.
- : an implement of this kind used as a whistle, fog signal, or warning device.
- : any of several aquatic, eellike salamanders of the family Sirenidae, having permanent external gills, small forelimbs, and no posterior limbs.
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- : of or like a siren.
- : seductive or tempting, especially dangerously or harmfully: the siren call of adventure.
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- : to go with the siren sounding, as a fire engine.
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- : to allure in the manner of a siren.
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Examples
A surveillance video from a private home, broadcast by WRC-TV, shows a moped traveling near Seventh and Kennedy streets NW followed by a police vehicle with its lights and siren on.
The statement said the officer was traveling westbound on East Capitol Street and approaching Southern Avenue with his emergency lights and sirens activated.
Horns honking, planes making their very-final descent, sirens heckling from around the neighborhood — they come with the territory of performing outdoors in any city.
In fact, it would be hard to draw more attention without the help of some sirens and a bullhorn.
Harmon cranked up his siren and flashed the cruiser’s red and blue lights.
The garrulous assistant to a fading screen siren in Clouds of Sils Maria.
Anyway, Hurley magically built a career from it, and is still smiling and siren-ing.
That song would soon morph from the jaunty clip of the light rail to the siren sounds of jazz.
As I stepped into the main building that housed Unit C, an earsplitting siren blared suddenly and a dozen strobes flashed.
Half an hour after I had returned to my old apartment from Jaffa, an air raid siren went off.
He came close to having convulsions when a squad car passed on the next street west, its siren wailing.
The soldier of Revolution must not be lured from the field of battle by the siren song of love.
That police car, roaring up from behind, siren a-scream, smashed into the tail end of their job.
The officers of the Siren saw them also, and sent their boats into the harbor to aid the fugitives, if necessary.
A little while afterwards the Canada's siren began to wail and squeal with a horrible mockery of painful cries.