Buzzer vs Alarm - What's the difference?
buzzer | alarm |
One who, or that which, buzzes; an insect that buzzes.
* Shakespeare
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A device that makes a buzzing sound.
:* If you think you know the answer to the question, hit the buzzer as fast as you can.
A police badge.
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 28:
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.
As nouns the difference between buzzer and alarm
is that buzzer is one who, or that which, buzzes; an insect that buzzes while alarm is a summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.As a verb alarm is
to call to arms for defense.buzzer
English
(wikipedia buzzer)Noun
(en noun)- And wants not buzzers to infect his ear / With pestilent speeches of his father's death.
- I flipped my wallet open on her desk and let her look at the buzzer pinned to the flap.
alarm
English
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.