Crossword clues for klaxon
klaxon
The Collaborative International Dictionary
klaxon \klaxon\ n. a kind of loud horn formerly used on motor vehicles.
Syn: claxon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"loud warning horn," 1908, originally on automobiles, said to have been named for the company that sold them (The Klaxon Company; distributor for Lovell-McConnell Mfg. Co., Newark, N.J.), but probably the company was named for the horn, which bore a word likely based on Greek klazein "to roar," cognate with Latin clangere "to resound."
Wiktionary
n. A loud electric horn or alarm. vb. (cx intransitive English) To produce a loud, siren-like wail.
WordNet
n. a kind of loud horn formerly used on motor vehicles [syn: claxon]
Wikipedia
is the second extended play by Japanese electropop singer Immi. It was released virtually on March 12, 2008 by indie label Grand Trax.
Klaxon - mensario de arte moderna (Klaxon- modern art monthly) was a Brazilian literary magazine who ran from May 15, 1922 to January 1923. The publication was the main divulgator of the Brazilian Modernism, after the Week of Modern Art held in São Paulo.
Klaxon lasted for nine issues, and had among its collaborators Mário de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Di Cavalcanti, Tarsila do Amaral, Anita Malfatti, Menotti Del Picchia and other artists. In 2013, the magazine's complete editions were collected in a book.
Klaxon is a trademark for a brand of electromechanical horn or alerting device.
Klaxon may also refer to:
- Klaxons, an English indie rock band
- The Klaxons, a Belgian accordion-based band
- Klaxon (EP), an EP by Immi
- Klaxon (magazine), a Brazilian literary magazine
Usage examples of "klaxon".
As soon as the klaxon had sounded, and the vessel had begun its inertialess flight, he went into the locker room where the sergeant, who also served as toilet attendant, gave him the option of a cold shower for five monits or a hot one for twenty.
The intruder alert klaxon immediately began to sound, and Chekov gestured to Rand to mute the volume.
In the backseat the girls were agog, testing the seat springs, exploring the vase on its bracket between the doors and asking Elfred if it had a Klaxon, and would he toot it.
He jabbed the klaxon and heard it scream through the hull beneath him.
Should the scream of the alarm klaxon shatter the stillness he knew from experience that these same men, like the others who were resting throughout the boat, would be at their stations in seconds, some of them probably not even realizing how they had got there.
He could still remember his first boat, the warnings about getting a move on when the klaxon tore the place apart.
When the klaxon had sounded, however, he had found himself alone in his mess.
How many times had the klaxon screamed out from here, to the tilt of the deck and the fierce inrush of water?
Klaxon with their hands reaching up protectively into their helmets, the Master of Sinanju floated up to the Klaxon and clapped his hands three times delicately, as if trying to swat a mosquito buzzing the Klaxon horns.
An alarm klaxon is sounding, but the import of that washes over me, as if my mind is protecting me from it.
That klaxon is still shrieking, the sound of it like a drill penetrating my eardrums.
I can hear sounds now: fragments of words, the stuttering wail of a klaxon alarm, and a heartbeat thumping, thumping.
But the following morning, while it was still dark, they were awakened by the roar of the klaxon and he sat up in bed, wide eyed, as though coming out of a nightmare.
They were supposed to be in the air by dawn, and as the klaxon woke them, they could hear a multitude of engines churning somewhere in the mist.
A few moments later the klaxon sounded and they rose wearily, reaching for their gloves and helmets.