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What (who) is alarm - definition

TYPE OF SIGNALING DEVICE THAT ALERTS PEOPLE TO A DANGEROUS CONDITION
Alarms; Alarm system; Warning buzzer; Alarm bell; Alarm; Alarm control panel; Alarm devices; Alarm systems; Alarm bells; Warning alarm tone; Warning chime; Alarum
  • Fire alarm in [[Magnuson Park]]
  • A 2022 alarm system panel with devices linked to central.

alarm         
  • ALARM under the wing of a RAF Tornado GR4
  • Map with ALARM operators in blue
ANTI-RADIATION MISSILE
ALARM missile; ALARM (missile); Air Launched Anti-Radiation Missile; Air-Launched Anti-Radiation Missile; Air Launched Antiradiation Missile; Air-Launched Antiradiation Missile; Airlaunched Anti-radiation Missile; Airlaunched Antiradiation Missile; Air Launched Anti-Radiation Missiles; Air-Launched Anti-Radiation Missiles; Airlaunched Anti-Radiation Missiles; Air Launched Antiradiation Missiles; Air-Launched Antiradiation Missiles; Airlaunched Antiradiation Missiles
n.
warning device
warning
1) to activate; give, send in, set off, sound; set an alarm (she set the alarm to go off at five)
2) to deactivate, turn off an alarm
3) a burglar; fire; silent; smoke alarm
4) a false alarm
5) an alarm goes off, rings, sounds
apprehension, fear
6) to express; feel alarm
7) to cause alarm (the incident caused great alarm)
8) alarm at (to express alarm at the danger of war)
alarm         
  • ALARM under the wing of a RAF Tornado GR4
  • Map with ALARM operators in blue
ANTI-RADIATION MISSILE
ALARM missile; ALARM (missile); Air Launched Anti-Radiation Missile; Air-Launched Anti-Radiation Missile; Air Launched Antiradiation Missile; Air-Launched Antiradiation Missile; Airlaunched Anti-radiation Missile; Airlaunched Antiradiation Missile; Air Launched Anti-Radiation Missiles; Air-Launched Anti-Radiation Missiles; Airlaunched Anti-Radiation Missiles; Air Launched Antiradiation Missiles; Air-Launched Antiradiation Missiles; Airlaunched Antiradiation Missiles
I. n.
1.
Alarum, larum, tocsin, summons to arms, alarm-bell, alarm-gun, beat of drum, sound of trumpet, notice of danger, signal of distress.
2.
Fear, apprehension, terror, fright, affright, consternation, dismay.
II. v. a.
1.
Call to arms, summon to arms.
2.
Terrify, frighten, affright, startle, scare, daunt, appall, put in fear.
alarm         
  • ALARM under the wing of a RAF Tornado GR4
  • Map with ALARM operators in blue
ANTI-RADIATION MISSILE
ALARM missile; ALARM (missile); Air Launched Anti-Radiation Missile; Air-Launched Anti-Radiation Missile; Air Launched Antiradiation Missile; Air-Launched Antiradiation Missile; Airlaunched Anti-radiation Missile; Airlaunched Antiradiation Missile; Air Launched Anti-Radiation Missiles; Air-Launched Anti-Radiation Missiles; Airlaunched Anti-Radiation Missiles; Air Launched Antiradiation Missiles; Air-Launched Antiradiation Missiles; Airlaunched Antiradiation Missiles
(alarms, alarming, alarmed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Alarm is a feeling of fear or anxiety that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
The news was greeted with alarm by MPs...
N-UNCOUNT: oft with/in N, N over/about n
2.
If something alarms you, it makes you afraid or anxious that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
We could not see what had alarmed him.
= frighten
VERB: V n
3.
An alarm is an automatic device that warns you of danger, for example by ringing a bell.
He heard the alarm go off.
N-COUNT
4.
An alarm is the same as an alarm clock
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N-COUNT
5.
6.
If you say that something sets alarm bells ringing, you mean that it makes people feel worried or concerned about something.
PHRASE: N inflects
7.
If you raise the alarm or sound the alarm, you warn people of danger.
His family raised the alarm when he had not come home by 9pm.
PHRASE: V inflects

Wikipedia

Alarm device

An alarm device is a mechanism that gives an audible, visual or other kind of alarm signal to alert someone to a problem or condition that requires urgent attention.

Examples of use of alarm
1. "Alarm systems –– we never had alarm systems," said Livingston, the police chief.
2. "The captain at no stage activated the distress alarm, but he did push the piracy alarm button," Dassanayake said.
3. These indiscriminate acts caused widespread alarm.
4. Several lawmakers expressed alarm about the report.
5. The Central Station Alarm Association, an alarm industry group and the parent of the AICC, tried to get the FCC to delay the analog sunset.