Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word ALERT

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Definitions of ALERT

1. Attentive; awake; on guard.
2. An alarm.
3. A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
4. To give warning to.
5. (obsolete) brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
6. (military) A state of readiness for potential combat.
7. A community in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada; the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world.
8. (computing) Synonym of bell.
9. A An alternative name for Alharod, a village in Varzaqan County, East Azerbaijan, Iran.
10. A unincorporated community in Jackson, Decatur County, Indiana, USA.

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Examples of Using ALERT in a Sentence

• Alarm bell, used to alert people of a fire or burglary detected or, as part of a traditional alarm clock, to awaken or remind.
• A small, alert, and agile dog that copes very well with mountainous terrain and hiking trails, the Shiba Inu was originally bred for hunting.
• Many laboratories have training programs to demonstrate how glassware is used and to alert first–time users to the safety hazards involved with using glassware.
• An alarm device is a mechanism that gives an audible, visual, combination, or other kind of alarm signal to alert someone to a problem or condition that requires urgent attention.
• Alectryon however failed at his job when he fell asleep, allowing Helios, the god of the Sun, to see the two lovers and alert Hephaestus, the husband of Aphrodite, who then caught the two lovers in the act.
• In November 2021, 150 people were evacuated from the island's harbour area due to increased volcanic activity and gases; an amber alert had been issued in October 2021 after several significant changes in the volcano's parameters.
• A type of Simple Network Management Protocol Protocol Data Unit used to report an alert or other asynchronous event about a managed subsystem.
• As he and his girlfriend Susan are about to board a plane back to the US, Billy is frisked by soldiers (who are on high alert for terrorist attacks) who discover the drug.
• After an alert store manager noticed that it was a signed original, the painting was auctioned for $40,600 at Sotheby's.
• The Plectron company, which manufactured alert radio receivers used by fire departments, was started in Overton in 1955; it transferred operations to Lexington in the 1980s.
• Beacon was so named to commemorate the historic beacon fires that blazed forth from the summit of the Fishkill Mountains to alert the Continental Army of British troop movements.
• When hostile Indians were moving through the area, an alert would be sounded by banging on the tin kettle.
• This was a new east–west railroad chartered in 1904 with its right of way quietly secured in 1904 and 1905, so as to not alert the competition regarding plans to transport coal originated by its sister Deepwater Railway operating in southern West Virginia.
• In its early years, the bell was used to summon lawmakers to legislative sessions and to alert citizens to public meetings and proclamations.
• The young John was sent to St Stephen's School on Docker's Hill in Richmond, and he was remembered as a bright and alert schoolboy with a special interest in English, some skill in drawing, a keen sense of fun, and no interest whatsoever in organised sport.
• One proposed explanation is that these anxieties are a specific symptom of social anxiety produced by fearfulness related to the fight-or-flight response, which is produced by a perceived threat; this triggers an elevated defense reaction in the sympathetic nervous system to be alert, to run, hide or freeze.
• Budget advocacy also enables citizens and social action groups to compel the government to be more alert to the needs and aspirations of people in general and the deprived sections of the community.
• The Emergency Alert System (EAS) is a national warning system in the United States designed to allow authorized officials to broadcast emergency alerts and warning messages to the public via cable, satellite and broadcast television and AM, FM and satellite radio.

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