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Noun alert has 3 senses
- alert, qui vive - condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action; "bombers were put on alert during the crisis"
--1 is a kind of readiness, preparedness, preparation
--1 has particulars: air alert; red alert; strip alert
- alert, alerting - a warning serves to make you more alert to danger
--2 is a kind of warning
--2 has particulars: Emergency Alert System, EAS
- alarm, alert, warning signal, alarum - an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
--3 is a kind of signal, signaling, sign
--3 has particulars:
Verb alert has 1 sense
- alarm, alert - 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"
--1 is one way to warn
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
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