What is the difference between alarm and alert?
alarm | alert |
A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
A sudden attack; disturbance.
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.
A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention.
An instance of an alarum ringing or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.
To call to arms for defense
To give (someone) notice of approaching danger
To rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.
To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
To keep in excitement; to disturb.
Attentive; awake; on guard.
(obsolete) Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
* Addison
As nouns the difference between alarm and alert
is that alarm is a summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy while alert is an alarm.As verbs the difference between alarm and alert
is that alarm is to call to arms for defense while alert is to give warning to.As an adjective alert is
attentive; awake; on guard.As a proper noun Alert is
the northernmost inhabited place in Nunavut, Canada.alarm
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Alternative forms
* alarumNoun
- ''Arming to answer in a night alarm . --Shakespeare.
- ''Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. --Joel ii. 1.
- these home alarms
- thy palace fill with insults and alarms
- ''Alarm and resentment spread throughout the camp. --.
- ''The clockradio is a friendlier version of the cold alarm by the bedside
- ''You should set the alarm on your watch to go off at seven o'clock.
See also
* tocsinVerb
(en verb)References
*Anagrams
* ----alert
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Adjective
(en adjective)- an alert young fellow