Emergency vs Sos - What's the difference?
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As a noun emergency is a situation which poses an immediate risk and which requires urgent attention. As a pronoun sos is these;.
emergency English
Noun
( emergencies)
A situation which poses an immediate risk and which requires urgent attention.
:Cardiac arrest is an emergency and if you find someone in cardiac arrest you should call 999 immediately.
(US, Canada, often attributive) The department of a hospital that treats emergencies.
An individual brought in at short notice to replace a member of staff, a player in a sporting team, etc.
* November 2 2014 , Daniel Taylor, " Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United ," guardian.co.uk
- Van Gaal responded by replacing Adnan Januzaj with Carrick and, in fairness, the emergency centre-half did exceedingly well given that he has not played since May.
(archaic) The quality of being emergent; sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence.
Synonyms
* (hospital department) ER, casualty, emerg
Derived terms
* emergency department
* emergency entrance
* emergency exit
* emergency room
* emergency ward
* emergency medical services
* state of emergency
* emergency response
* Emergency Medical Technician
* The Emergency
See also
* fire department
* police
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sos Translingual
Symbol
(head)
emergency, mayday, distress
Usage notes
The code SOS is normally only used in text transmission; for voice communication, mayday is used. The sequence is normally transmitted run together without any letter spacing in between, so it is technically a single unique code rather than a series of three letters.
Synonyms
* (l)
See also
* (l)
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