Alarm vs Pyow - What's the difference?
alarm | pyow |
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.
An alarm call made by the putty-nosed monkey and others, usually a warning that other animals are lurking nearby.
* 1977 , Smithsonian contributions to zoology
* 1990 , Mark A Berkley, William C Stebbins, Comparative Perception: Basic mechanisms
* 1991 , Richard Estes, The behavior guide to African mammals
* 1993 , American Psychological Association, Psychological abstracts
* 2007 , National Geographic Society, The National Geographic magazine
As nouns the difference between alarm and pyow
is that alarm is alert, alarm while pyow is an alarm call made by the putty-nosed monkey and others, usually a warning that other animals are lurking nearby.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
* ----pyow
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Noun
(en noun)- Sometimes, however, the adult male rejoined the group after emitting "Pyows " and moved with the others in quite a different direction.
- Interestingly, the blue monkey's boom and pyow calls are both long-distance signals (Brown, 1989), yet the two calls differ...
- For instance, the bark of a spot-nose and pyow of a blue monkey sound very similar (4).
- Analysis of pyows made by a recognizable male over 10 yrs...
- Male putty-nosed monkeys in Nigeria have been observed stringing together calls of pyow and hack.
