(n.) A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
(n.) Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
(n.) A sudden attack; disturbance; broil.
(n.) Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.
(n.) A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To keep in excitement; to disturb.
(v. t.) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
Example Sentences:
(1) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(2) Which must make yesterday's jobs figures doubly alarming for the coalition.
(3) Luciana Berger, Labour shadow secretary for mental health, also expressed alarm.
(4) The Cambridge-based couple felt ignored when tried to raise the alarm about the way their business – publisher Zenith – was treated by Lynden Scourfield, the former HBOS banker jailed last week, and David Mills’ Quayside Corporate Services.
(5) Not only was an alarming amount of fissile material going missing at the company, Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (Numec), but it had been visited by a veritable who's-who of Israeli intelligence, including Rafael Eitan, described by the firm as an Israeli defence ministry "chemist", but, in fact, a top Mossad operative who went on to head Lakam.
(6) Talking ahead of a UN climate summit in Peru next month, Kim said he was alarmed by World Bank-commissioned research from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, which said that as a result of past greenhouse gas emissions the world is condemned to unprecedented weather events.
(7) The most egregious failure was by WHO in the delay in sounding the alarm,” said Prof Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute.
(8) "We are alarmed to see the government is even wavering about continuing its programme of tracing, testing and destroying infected young ash trees.
(9) Privacy advocates argue this reflects an alarming ease of access, even though agencies should make every effort to ensure the invasion of privacy is justified by the importance to the public of solving a crime or recovering money.
(10) There was no looking back and as Hardouvelis nervously looked on – at times relieved, at times alarmed – it was quite clear that there was no stepping back either.
(11) Suffice to say, it was a long, difficult haul with various scares and alarms along the way.
(12) Severe overloading can increase microdamage alarmingly, its repair by BMUs too, and can cause woven bone formation, anarchic resorption and a regional acceleratory phenomenon.
(13) The literature on the possible risk of myasthenia gravis complicating pregnancy and delivery is sparse and partly contradictory but some of the reports on the number of perinatal and neonatal deaths are alarming.
(14) The second cause for alarm is more real – the insistence on imposing exemplary, or punitive, damages on those who don't join the regulator (and, in some circumstances, even those who do).
(15) The stimulus-response combination was classified into 4 categories according to SDT response: hits, misses, false alarms (FAs) and correct rejections (CRs).
(16) The interval distributions of neurons in isolated cerebral cortex resembled those of neurons in the intact cortex of an alarmed animal.
(17) The clinicians were asked to choose from a list the device that produced the alarm.
(18) On Monday, the interior minister, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, said the alarm had been raised immediately, but local media have cited prison sources saying it took half an hour for police to begin the search for Guzmán.
(19) The bank's speciality in debt instruments such as mortgage-related securities caused alarm as early as last summer.
(20) in the US the last ten years have witnessed an alarming recrudescence involving vast strata of the population and especially children, although this is masked by the paucity of reports, as is the case also in Italy.
Alary
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped.
Example Sentences:
(1) A small group of pericardial cells was embedded in the adventitia along the mid-ventral side of the DV, and clusters of pericardial cells were found attached to the alary muscles.
(2) The alary muscles form an incomplete sheath around the heart with a mainly longitudinal fibre orientation, e.i.
(3) The alary muscles are striated with a sarcomere at rest measuring about 9 microns.
(4) Exposure to paraquat, a widely used herbicide, has been shown to produce a concentration dependent rapid, shallow breathing pattern in guinea pigs 18 hr following exposure (H. Burleigh-Flayer and Y. Alarie, 1987, Arch.
(5) The heart and alary muscles in Sphinx particularly their caudal extremity were also examined by transmission electron microscopy.
(6) Only one type of neuromuscular junction is abundant in the alary muscles but less frequently found in the heart.
(7) Contractions of the alary muscles attached to the ventral surface of abdominal segments VII and VIII served to expand the heart.
(8) Axons which innervate the alary muscle are either contained within invaginated folds of the sarcolemma of the muscle cells or the muscle cells send finger-like projections to envelop the axons.
(9) The development of the caudal entotympanic has impact on 2 structures in the occipital region: The Lamina alaris and the Processus paracondyloideus.
(10) The structure-activity relationships of the compounds studied are explained by a model (Abraham et al., 1990; Nielsen and Alarie, 1982) that relates the interaction of sensory irritants with a receptor protein in a lipid bilayer.
(11) Felis 1 shows a distinct Lamina alaris and a short Processus paracondyloideus.
(12) The RD50 values for chlorine and acrolein approximated those quoted by Alarie Y., whereas for ammonia exposure this value differed.
(13) The alary muscles of Locusta migratoria adults make up the major tissue of the dorsal diaphragm which separates pericardial and perivisceral sinuses in the abdomen.
(14) The organ is a tubule anatomically divided into an anterior aorta and a posterior heart, connected to the body wall through 8 pairs of alary muscles.
(15) The model can be applied to other groups with alary polymorphism.
(16) Seven pairs of alary muscles were found attached to the DV in the posterior abdominal segments.
(17) A migration-extinction model has been developed for the analysis of alary polymorphism and its adaptive significance in univoltine populations of water-striders (Gerris).
(18) The heart and alary muscles are multiterminally innervated by branches of the transverse segmental nerves.
(19) A cartilago alaris superior, which develops independently in situ, is present; in our stage it is associated with the wall of the capsule, but ventrolaterally it terminates freely and is not joined to any other element.