qui-vive - translation to English
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qui-vive - translation to English

UNITED STATES NAVY PATROL VESSEL
Qui vive; USS Qui Vive

qui-vive      
on the alert, on guard, ready, on standby
être sur le qui vive      
be on one's mettle
qui manque de vision      
short-sighted

Definition

Qui vive
·- The challenge of a French sentinel, or patrol;
- used like the English challenge: "Who comes there?".

Wikipedia

USS Qui Vive (SP-1004)

USS Qui Vive (SP-1004) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919. She served as a hospital boat for part of her naval career.

Qui Vive was built in 1916 by Hutchinson Brothers at Alexandria, New York, for Houston Barnard of Rochester, New York. On 22 June 1917, the U.S. Navy chartered her from Barnard at Alexandria Bay, New York, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I, and she was commissioned as USS Qui Vive (SP-1004) in 1917.

Assigned to the 5th Naval District, Qui Vive served on patrol duties until late in 1917. On 3 December 1917, she was reassigned to duty as a hospital boat at Norfolk, Virginia.

Qui Vive was decommissioned at Norfolk on 6 May 1919 and was returned to Barnard on 27 May or 7 June 1919.

Examples of use of qui-vive
1. Toutes les autorités espagnoles étaient hier sur le qui–vive.
2. Nous pénétrons dans l‘immeuble désaffecté. Pas âme qui vive.
3. Les autorités sanitaires locales sont sur le qui–vive.
4. Les autorités se montrent particuli';rement sur le qui–vive sur cette question.
5. Depuis, les chauffeurs de bus et taxis sont sur le qui–vive.