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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
alarm
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a warning/danger/alarm signal (=a signal showing that there is danger)
▪ Managers should keep a watchful eye open for the danger signals.
alarm clock
an alarm clock goes off (=rings at a particular time)
▪ What time do you want the alarm clock to go off tomorrow?
an alarm clock (=that makes a noise to wake you up)
▪ He forgot to set his alarm clock.
an alarming rate
▪ The alarming rate of increase in pollution levels has concerned environmentalists.
an alarming/worrying/disturbing trend
▪ I have detected a worrying trend of late.
an alarm/security system
▪ A new alarm system has been installed.
be alarmed/appalled/upset etc at the prospect (of sth)
▪ She was secretly appalled at the prospect of being looked after by her aunt.
burglar alarm
car alarm
cause concern/alarm
▪ Environmental issues are causing widespread concern.
false alarm
▪ Fire fighters responded to a false alarm at one of the college dormitories.
fire alarm went off
▪ We were in the middle of an exam when the fire alarm went off.
fire alarm
▪ We were in the middle of an exam when the fire alarm went off.
set off...fire alarm
▪ Someone set off the fire alarm.
smoke alarm
▪ The smoke alarm went off.
sound the alarm
▪ She was unable to sound the alarm.
sounding the alarm
▪ Now it is an American economist who is sounding the alarm.
triggering...alarm
▪ The burglars fled after triggering the alarm.
with alarming frequency
▪ Businesses come and go with alarming frequency.
with alarming/increasing etc regularity
▪ Our team kept losing with monotonous regularity in a way that seems boring or annoying.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
false
▪ But the patient was okay, it was a false alarm, please thank them and send them on their way.
▪ Washington area police also responded to dozens of calls for suspicious packages, all of which turned out to be false alarms.
▪ I had been released on a false alarm.
▪ The Tavares Fire Department also receives false alarms -- 211 last year.
▪ Of 221 launches in answer to unidentified distress signals 216 turned out to be false alarms or hoax calls.
▪ Those genes would produce a harmless protein that, once inside the body, would sound the false alarm of infection.
▪ There have been several false alarms in the tabloids, but at the end of 1986 reporters thought they had a scoop.
▪ Your apprehension is based on the fear that the change might be a false alarm.
great
▪ The following year there was even greater alarm in Britain.
▪ Well, it was then that I was attacked from another quarter and awakened to the greatest possible alarm.
▪ When this order first went out there was great alarm and feeling that it was to tax Christenings, Weddings and Burials.
▪ The thing that interested him most, however, was the rope of the great alarm bell on the roof.
■ NOUN
bell
▪ If the adviser wants you to make out a cheque to him, the alarm bells should start ringing.
▪ First sight of the bailiff's officer the alarm bell would ring out the strikers' angelus.
▪ Even so, alarm bells are beginning to sound at Westminster.
▪ Then he ran up the rope of the alarm bell.
▪ Her flesh cried out to be closer, and, with the last vestiges of sanity, alarm bells rang.
▪ A loud alarm bell rang out soundly and he awoke from a trance.
▪ What is surprising is that alarm bells within the bank did not bring action earlier.
▪ Some of these issues set off fewer alarm bells today and perhaps for most of us they are of less social concern.
burglar
▪ Ultrasonics technology is used in certain burglar alarm systems which trigger on detecting the sound of breaking glass.
▪ We repair to the kitchen and blithely set off the burglar alarm searching for the cat to cuddle.
▪ She was woken early this morning by a burglar alarm.
▪ He said I should have more adequate protection than a burglar alarm.
▪ A new burglar alarm and ventilation system have been fitted.
▪ By the time the burglar alarms had alerted staff the birds were gone.
▪ It was reported, in Baberton Mains, that a special offer for the installation of burglar alarms had been made.
▪ Great Caesar; a burglar alarm.
call
▪ The alarm call stimulates other nearby blackbirds to take evasive action.
▪ Last year, the city received 914 alarm calls, 703 of which were false, according to city records.
▪ There would be an advantage in giving an alarm call that is difficult to locate.
▪ In the first gray dawn, I heard the alarm calls of robins.
▪ I usually get an alarm call ... No comment.
▪ The young of many species take cover as soon as an alarm call is given.
▪ If any move is made by the army in the tribal areas, the result could be an alarm call to Kabul.
▪ There's no extra cash to pay for the search; fire chiefs are just hoping their alarm call is answered.
car
▪ She breaks the window of the black car - and the car alarm goes off!
▪ If car alarms are useless, why do they sell so well?
▪ Down among the orange lamps a broken car alarm marked out the time.
▪ Why should car alarms be exempt?
▪ Have you ever noticed the response when a car alarm goes off in a busy street?
▪ In my San Francisco neighborhood, some one has a car alarm.
▪ He set the car alarm, and went up to the door.
clock
▪ A grateful Di rewarded him with expensive presents - including a diamond-studded tie-pin and a gold and silver alarm clock.
▪ One matching baby-blue Samsonite hatbox, containing my shoes, portable alarm clock, and toilet articles.
▪ A neighbour had made sure he was awake; there was no alarm clock at home.
▪ He must have gone to sleep at last for the next thing he heard was his alarm clock.
▪ Maggie glanced at her alarm clock, but couldn't make out the time.
▪ But her eye caught her bedside alarm clock and she pulled herself properly into wakefulness.
▪ Jonny takes swigs from a water bottle and times his work with an alarm clock.
▪ Just before the alarm clock rang at five, I conceived how it might be done.
fire
▪ He came up with the electric clock, a form of fire alarm, a railway signal and a loudspeaker.
▪ In the middle of the night, the fire alarm sounds, and we awaken.
▪ Sounding of fire alarm. 2.
▪ It sounds like a fire alarm and enters my ears like a keening mosquito that I can not reach.
▪ Mr Small said fire alarms were installed and special voice tapes would tell people to leave the premises.
▪ The entire house lights up when a burglar or fire alarm is triggered.
▪ The fire alarm went off that evening - Tuesday, November 24.
▪ Thousands of blacks swarmed into the streets, attacking policemen, pulling fire alarms, smashing windows, and looting stores.
intruder
▪ Your intruder alarm must be set whenever the Home is left without a responsible person in attendance. 4.
▪ Your intruder alarm must not be altered or replaced without our prior written agreement. 6.
smoke
Smoking a cigarette will not normally set off a smoke alarm.
▪ He didn't have a smoke alarm.
▪ If possible read the manufacturer's information and instructions before you buy a smoke alarm.
▪ There are two basic types of smoke alarm.
▪ Most smoke alarms have a test button which sets off the alarm when pressed.
▪ Of course, you will need to go on taking basic fire safety precautions even when smoke alarms are fitted in your home.
▪ The couple say that their smoke alarm, provided by the council, wasn't working.
sound
▪ A minute or so before the explosion, an alarm sounds.
▪ In the middle of the night, the fire alarm sounds, and we awaken.
system
▪ Ultrasonics technology is used in certain burglar alarm systems which trigger on detecting the sound of breaking glass.
▪ For automotive buffs, there was an array of navigational devices and sophisticated alarm systems.
▪ We have told them about my alarm system, and they would do something if they heard it.
▪ Many cities require registration of alarm systems, provide for a warning process, fine violators and authorize disconnection of alarm systems.
▪ The factory had no fire escapes or alarm system.
▪ Many cities require registration of alarm systems, provide for a warning process, fine violators and authorize disconnection of alarm systems.
▪ No wonder they didn't need lights, the alarm system was warning enough.
▪ They have an alarm system, man.
■ VERB
cause
▪ We also established that a similar sum had been paid in through our Strangeways Branch although this had not caused any alarm.
▪ Only during the night... the picket lines being close together, the firing of the skirmishers caused frequent alarms.
▪ First it was the different forms of hepatitis virus which caused alarm.
▪ There had been only one moment to cause her any undue alarm.
▪ Both Dames Elizabeth and Martha were deaf, so whatever you said or how you said it would not cause any alarm.
▪ A case that caused some alarm in 1908, however, revealed that revolvers could also fall into the hands of youths.
▪ Speaking personally, for now, it's always cause for alarm, when they spin round - whatever they look like.
▪ All this has caused alarm in the third world, particularly among its autocrats.
cry
▪ A great shadow swooped in, the Stork bucked wildly and Farber cried out in alarm.
fit
▪ Yamaha is also offering an optional factory-#fitted alarm and a U-lock to fill that space under the seat.
▪ The Honda has metallic paint as standard while Rover fits an anti-theft alarm with engine immobiliser as standard.
▪ So, to provide ample warning, fit smoke alarms.
▪ It could fit mains-powered alarms, but that would mean putting up rents.
give
▪ Yet paradoxically the bird is now giving serious cause for alarm to environmentalists because of a decline in the breeding population.
▪ When approached underwater they give an alarm or warning signal consisting of a series of quite rapid and quite audible grunts.
▪ The sores are usually relatively painless, and this procedure, like the urethral investigation, need give no cause for alarm.
▪ Not a groan gave the alarm.
▪ Individuals of many bird species give alarm calls when they spot a dangerous predator.
▪ Mayli stared at him for just a second, then realised that the waiter would have given the alarm by now.
▪ There would be an advantage in giving an alarm call that is difficult to locate.
▪ There are a number of aspects about this privatisation which are already giving cause for alarm.
hear
▪ Lorenzo Mancarelli hears the alarm and runs down to the road.
▪ At night the neighborhood hummed with air-conditioners; no one would hear sirens or alarms.
▪ And then he heard the automatic alarms.
▪ In the first gray dawn, I heard the alarm calls of robins.
▪ He must have gone to sleep at last for the next thing he heard was his alarm clock.
▪ Next we hear shouts of alarm, and the footballers scatter, fleeing a shower of stones.
▪ How many times do we hear the alarm now?
▪ Consider the following brief passage: Mary heard the alarm and groaned inwardly, pulling the covers over her head.
install
▪ Will the Government look into a way to encourage car manufacturers to install alarm systems as standard equipment?
▪ The thing is, hardly anybody installs a silent alarm these days, except as a supplementary sys-tem.
raise
▪ And yesterday his heartbroken wife Jane slammed police for failing to find him after she raised the alarm 48 hours earlier.
▪ The Romantics had raised the alarm about the disintegration in modern society of much that is essential to the full human experience.
▪ Instead, he drove off and was later found dead by police after she raised the alarm.
▪ Most suits are filed after the scientific community or the press has already raised alarms.
▪ Mrs Gillis-Tweed raised the alarm from a neighbour's home.
▪ The election results raised even more alarm in the West.
▪ Shocked Andria raised the alarm then jumped in her own car and drove to a local beauty spot in Runnymede, Surrey.
▪ Two cyclists eventually stopped and went off to raise the alarm.
set
▪ Smoking a cigarette will not normally set off a smoke alarm.
▪ You also can't set alarms for events.
▪ It is a radar detector which sets off an alarm if a ship, with radar working, is in the vicinity.
▪ Some police agencies lock anklets on criminal suspects, convicts and parolees that set off an alarm if the person leaves home.
▪ I set my alarm for 7.00 am.
▪ His policies set off alarms all over Washington.
▪ Some of these issues set off fewer alarm bells today and perhaps for most of us they are of less social concern.
▪ Also, tell the security guard the office is empty so he can set the alarm.
trigger
▪ It will produce the hard data needed to analyse resource utilisation and will trigger an alarm mechanism allowing managers to control access.
▪ When triggered, the alarm seems to call in squads of immune cells that surround tuberculosis bacteria and keep them from spreading.
▪ Within one minute of being triggered, the alarm summons about 50 staff to the problem spot.
▪ Control were trying to get hold of him, to verify that he had accidentally triggered his window alarm.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
raise the alarm
▪ Fearing the bag might contain a bomb, a passenger raised the alarm.
▪ And yesterday his heartbroken wife Jane slammed police for failing to find him after she raised the alarm 48 hours earlier.
▪ Fred Goodyear was so shocked that it was more than eight hours before he raised the alarm.
▪ Instead, he drove off and was later found dead by police after she raised the alarm.
▪ Mrs Gillis-Tweed raised the alarm from a neighbour's home.
▪ Rex raised the alarm, and the entire crew rushed forward in the rain and darkness to try to limit the damage.
▪ Shocked Andria raised the alarm then jumped in her own car and drove to a local beauty spot in Runnymede, Surrey.
▪ The Romantics had raised the alarm about the disintegration in modern society of much that is essential to the full human experience.
▪ The scanner easily raises the alarm.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Several oil-producing countries expressed alarm at the fall in prices.
▪ The bank teller pushed the alarm button.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An alarm went off in his head as it occurred to him what a sitting target he was in his Baby.
▪ Fred Goodyear was so shocked that it was more than eight hours before he raised the alarm.
▪ It sounds like a fire alarm and enters my ears like a keening mosquito that I can not reach.
▪ She closed the door behind him, put her rape alarm back on the bedside table, and there they were.
▪ Some of the girls squealed in alarm.
▪ Some of them had noticed the sea-fret by now and had jumped up in alarm.
▪ The Big Three began sounding the alarm in a big way when January sales figures were reported.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
▪ Four facts about car alarms: Fact 1: Buyers are not fully informed.
Cars, car alarms, roads, paving bricks...
▪ The car is still alarmed when the car is started and the doors are locked.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Many women are alarmed by suggestions of a link between the contraceptive pill and breast cancer.
▪ The damage to the marsh has alarmed environmentalists.
▪ We don't wish to alarm people unnecessarily, but it would be wise to avoid drinking the tap water here.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ However, a resurgence of working-class agitation during 1833-4 alarmed the Whig government and the propertied classes in general.
▪ It was also couched in language designed to satisfy or at least not to alarm a multitude of constituencies at home.
▪ Lieutenants Peel and Maloney succeeded in so alarming the men that they decided to march to join Paredes and the revolutionists.
▪ Meredith shrank back, alarmed by the unpleasant intention behind his expression.
▪ They came out of the last slopes of the Jebel without having alarmed anything more than a couple of herds of goats.
▪ This fish gives off a poisonous mucus from its mouth when alarmed.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alarm

Alarm \A*larm"\ ([.a]*l[aum]rm"), n. [F. alarme, It. all' arme to arms ! fr. L. arma, pl., arms. See Arms, and cf. Alarum.]

  1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.

    Arming to answer in a night alarm.
    --Shak.

  2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.

    Sound an alarm in my holy mountain.
    --Joel ii. 1.

  3. A sudden attack; disturbance; broil. [R.] ``These home alarms.''
    --Shak.

    Thy palace fill with insults and alarms.
    --Pope.

  4. Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.

    Alarm and resentment spread throughout the camp.
    --Macaulay.

  5. A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum.

    Alarm bell, a bell that gives notice on danger.

    Alarm clock or watch, a clock or watch which can be so set as to ring or strike loudly at a prearranged hour, to wake from sleep, or excite attention.

    Alarm gauge, a contrivance attached to a steam boiler for showing when the pressure of steam is too high, or the water in the boiler too low.

    Alarm post, a place to which troops are to repair in case of an alarm.

    Syn: Fright; affright; terror; trepidation; apprehension; consternation; dismay; agitation; disquiet; disquietude.

    Usage: Alarm, Fright, Terror, Consternation. These words express different degrees of fear at the approach of danger. Fright is fear suddenly excited, producing confusion of the senses, and hence it is unreflecting. Alarm is the hurried agitation of feeling which springs from a sense of immediate and extreme exposure. Terror is agitating and excessive fear, which usually benumbs the faculties. Consternation is overwhelming fear, and carries a notion of powerlessness and amazement. Alarm agitates the feelings; terror disorders the understanding and affects the will; fright seizes on and confuses the sense; consternation takes possession of the soul, and subdues its faculties. See Apprehension.

Alarm

Alarm \A*larm"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alarmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Alarming.] [Alarm, n. Cf. F. alarmer.]

  1. To call to arms for defense; to give notice to (any one) of approaching danger; to rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.

  2. To keep in excitement; to disturb.

  3. To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.

    Alarmed by rumors of military preparation.
    --Macaulay.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
alarm

early 14c., from Old French alarme (14c.), from Italian all'arme "to arms!" (literally "to the arms"). An interjection that came to be used as the word for the call or warning (compare alert). Extended 16c. to "any sound to warn of danger or to arouse." Weakened sense of "apprehension, unease" is from 1833. Variant alarum is due to the rolling -r- in the vocalized form. Sometimes in early years anglicized as all-arm. Alarm clock is attested from 1690s (as A Larum clock).

alarm

1580s, from alarm (n.). Related: Alarmed; alarming.

Wiktionary
alarm

n. 1 A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. 2 Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. 3 A sudden attack; disturbance. 4 Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise. 5 A mechanical device for awake people, or rousing their attention. 6 An instance of an alarum ringing or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To call to arms for defense 2 (context transitive English) To give (someone) notice of approaching danger 3 (context transitive English) To rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert. 4 (context transitive English) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear. 5 (context transitive English) To keep in excitement; to disturb.

WordNet
alarm
  1. n. fear resulting from the awareness of danger [syn: dismay, consternation]

  2. a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event [syn: warning device, alarm system]

  3. an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger [syn: alert, warning signal, alarum]

  4. a clock that wakes sleeper at preset time [syn: alarm clock]

alarm
  1. v. fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised; "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us" [syn: dismay, appal, appall, horrify]

  2. warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness; "The empty house alarmed him"; "We alerted the new neighbors to the high rate of burglaries" [syn: alert]

Wikipedia
ALARM

ALARM (Air Launched Anti-Radiation Missile) was a British anti-radiation missile designed primarily to destroy enemy radars for the purpose of Suppression of Enemy Air Defense (SEAD). It was used by the RAF and the Royal Saudi Air Force, and retired at the end of 2013.

Alarm (Namie Amuro song)

"Alarm" is Namie Amuro's 25th solo single under the Avex Trax label. Released in 2004, it became Namie's first solo single, and only as of 2010, to appear out of the Top 10 on the Oricon Charts.

Alarm (disambiguation)

Alarm may refer to:

Alarm (1938 film)

Alarm is a 1938 Danish family film directed by Lau Lauritzen Jr. and Alice O'Fredericks.

Alarm (2008 film)

Alarm is a 2008 Irish thriller film written and directed by Gerard Stembridge.

Alarm (magazine)

ALARM Magazine was an American quarterly magazine based in Chicago, Illinois that publishes "Music and Art Beyond Comparison." It covers emerging and mid-career musicians and artists with a focus on independent, underground, or otherwise non-mainstream music and art. It also covers fashion, film, toys, and electronic media to a lesser extent.

Editor/publisher Chris Force founded the magazine in 1995 in Connecticut. The magazine then moved to Boston, Massachusetts. The magazine moved to Chicago in 2002.

The magazine includes a sizable music reviews section, interviews with bands, musicians, visual and performing artists. There are also in-depth features, columnists, book and film reviews, and music and art listings. Past issues have featured Brooklyn Rappers, Polish Folk bands, Japanese pop singers, Chinese punk bands,California graffiti artists, train-hopping hobo craftsmen, and Hopi katsina artists. The magazine has also done features on well-known artists such as The Ramones, Queens of the Stone Age, Eels, Glenn Danzig, and Saul Williams.

The SF Weekly coined ALARM a "hipster journal".

Alarm (Anne-Marie song)

"Alarm" is a song by British singer Anne-Marie. It was released on 20 May 2016 through Major Tom's, Asylum Records, and Atlantic Records as a single from her upcoming debut studio album. The song was written by Wayne Hector, Steve Mac, Anne-Marie Nicholson, and Ina Wroldsen, with the production being handled by Mac and additional production by Rudimental band member Amir Amor and Brunelle.

Usage examples of "alarm".

Jayme has read your reports and listened to the news from the north of Achar with growing alarm.

I could tell by the quality of her alarm, which was actressy and overdone.

His hand slapped the panic button, sounding an alarm throughout the admin building.

Barbarian chiefs, alarmed and admonished by the fate of their companions, prepared to encounter, in a decisive battle, the victorious forces of the lieutenant of Valentinian.

Though it may seem to the reader that some time has elapsed since the first sounding of the alarm, all that I have set down took place in a very short period--hardly three minutes elapsing since Tom and the others came rushing out of the aerial warship building.

Alarm changed to resignation, and more and more Doc Daneeka acquired the look of an ailing rodent.

All these reports were alarming, and especially that of General Bon, in which no reserve was made.

All they unanimously desire is to put an end to the system of aggrandisement which your Emperor has established and acts upon with such alarming rapidity.

Two Dutch soldiers were shot for striking their officers, but notwithstanding this severity desertion among the troops increased to an alarming degree.

This letter, it is true, was written previously to the interview at Erfurt, when Napoleon, to avoid alarming Russia, made his ambition appear to slumber.

At the same time I sent to Schill a clever spy, who gave him a most alarming account of the means of defence which Hamburg possessed.

The difficulty of procuring provisions was extreme, and the means he was compelled to employ for that purpose greatly heightened the evil, at the same time insubordination and want of discipline prevailed to such an alarming degree that it would be as difficult as painful to depict the situation of our army at this period, Marmont, by his steady conduct, fortunately succeeded in correcting the disorders which prevailed, and very soon found himself at the head of a well-organised army, amounting to 30,000 infantry, with forty pieces of artillery, but he had only a very small body of cavalry, and those ill-mounted.

Paris divided in opinion, and to hear the alarming cries raised by the confederates of the Faubourgs when the King was already at St.

The Admiral, who had previously amused himself by giving an alarming description of this ceremony, now very courteously exempted his guests from the inconvenience and ridicule attending it.

On the 2d he was rather quieter, and the alarming symptoms diminished a little.