Alarm vs Panic - What's the difference?
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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.
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* 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.
Pertaining to the god Pan.
Of fear, fright etc: sudden or overwhelming (attributed by the ancient Greeks to the influence of ).
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* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p.537:
* 1993 , James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love , Book II:
Overpowering fright, often affecting groups of people or animals.
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*:She wakened in sharp panic , bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact.
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*:With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic , stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.
Rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of continuing decline in asset prices.
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To feel overwhelming fear.
(botany) A plant of the genus Panicum .
As nouns the difference between alarm and panic
is that alarm is a summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy while panic is overpowering fright, often affecting groups of people or animals.As verbs the difference between alarm and panic
is that alarm is to call to arms for defense while panic is to feel overwhelming fear.As an adjective panic is
pertaining to the god Pan.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
* ----panic
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(wikipedia panic)Etymology 1
From (etyl) panique, from (etyl) . is the god of woods and fields who was the source of mysterious sounds that caused contagious, groundless fear in herds and crowds, or in people in lonely spots.Alternative forms
* panick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- All things were there in a disordered confusion, and in a confused furie, untill such time as by praiers and sacrifices they had appeased the wrath of their Gods. They call it to this day, the Panike terror.
- At that moment a flight of birds passed close overhead, and at the whirr of their wings a panic fear seized her.
- Terrified, he looked down from the skies / At the waves, and panic blackness filled his eyes.
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}