What's the difference between alert and warn?

Alert


Definition:

  • (a.) Watchful; vigilant; active in vigilance.
  • (a.) Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
  • (n.) An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are several common clinical signs which should alert the physician to a possible diagnosis of SLE and which should condition him to look for specific clinical and laboratory findings.
  • (2) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
  • (3) In view of the high mortality every clinical deterioration of patients with cirrhosis should alert the physician of the presence of SBP.
  • (4) Moreover, it allows the clinician to be alert towards findings which could be missed when not carefully searched for and which may be useful to raise or strengthen the suspicion of this disease.
  • (5) The data support a hypothesis that medial thalamic structures have alerting functions in learning mechanisms.
  • (6) The correlation between the spike activity and the waves of surface ECoG was studied in the visual and motor cortex of alert non-immobilized rabbits.
  • (7) The specific angiotensin receptor antagonist, Sar1, Thr8AII (sarthran), was infused intracerebroventricularly in alert spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), and Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) and Sprague-Dawley (SD) normotensive rat strains.
  • (8) Stimulation using implanted electrodes in conscious rats, within the hypothalamic and midbrain areas described above, elicited typical 'flight' and 'escape' behaviour: thus, the localized regions from which the visceral alerting response is elicited contain neurones or nerve fibres integrating the whole defence-alerting response in the rat, as in other species.
  • (9) These findings suggest that health professionals, particularly nurses, who work with families in their homes, must be alert and sensitive to cues and circumstances which could indicate suffering, and in so doing, take the necessary steps to ameliorate their situation.
  • (10) It is understood that counterterrorism police at Heathrow are urgently seeking a meeting with senior UKBA management over the missed alerts.
  • (11) South Korea was put on high alert a year ago amid fears that the North was about to provoke a clash in the contested waters of the Yellow Sea.
  • (12) This report alerts clinicians that, although helpful in some patients, clonazepam can cause behavioral disinhibition and worsening of symptoms in other patients.
  • (13) These indicators included temperature elevation, inability to be consoled, level of alertness, nuchal rigidity, bulging fontanel, decreased appetite, rash, referral, and febrile seizures.
  • (14) This brief outline of optical identification potentials alerts law enforcement agencies to the early developments in the field.
  • (15) Immediately after delivery the following should be checked for any possible abnormalities: 1) the patient's alertness, 2) blood pressure, 3) pulse, and 4) body temperature.
  • (16) The results better define the important behavioral differences existing between the two strains, Long Evans rats showing consistently a higher level of alertness and a better conditioned performance.
  • (17) This article is intended to alert practicing physicians to the extent of the problem and to familiarize them with the various forms of skin cancer.
  • (18) Albion rarely threatened, though Tim Howard was alert to Shane Long's first-time shot, but had several chances to punish Everton on the counterattack late on.
  • (19) Witnesses reported hearing a loud bang coming from the area, which is also close to the Belfast city centre's prime retail centre and the city's courts, hours after a security alert was declared after 9pm.
  • (20) It was thus found that the predictive efficacy of CASE was increased when it employed a combination of human and artificial intelligence, as exemplified by the CASE analysis of 'structural alerts.

Warn


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To refuse.
  • (v. t.) To make ware or aware; to give previous information to; to give notice to; to notify; to admonish; hence, to notify or summon by authority; as, to warn a town meeting; to warn a tenant to quit a house.
  • (v. t.) To give notice to, of approaching or probable danger or evil; to caution against anything that may prove injurious.
  • (v. t.) To ward off.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
  • (2) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
  • (3) What reforms there were could also be reversed, she warned.
  • (4) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
  • (5) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
  • (6) The key warning from the Fed chair A summary of Bernanke's hearing Earlier... MPs in London quizzed the Bank of England on Libor.
  • (7) In London, diesel emissions are now so bad that on several days earlier this summer, children, older people and vulnerable adults were warned not to venture outside .
  • (8) Concurrent with this change in the level of enforcement of RBT was an extensive publicity campaign, which warned drinking drivers of their increased risk of detection by RBT units.
  • (9) The proportions of one of the warning stimuli, with respect to the total number of trials, were 0.10, 0.30 and 0.50.
  • (10) Additionally, the "early warning" capability of SaO2 monitoring was analyzed by recording the severity and outcome of hypoxemic events during treatment.
  • (11) Last November he bluntly warned EU chiefs he could, if he wished, “flood Europe” with refugees.
  • (12) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
  • (13) The speaker issued his warning after William Hague told MPs that the government would consult parliament but declined to explain the nature of the vote.
  • (14) Prof Bryan Williams, chair of the working party that developed the chart, said: "Many changes in healthcare are incremental but this new National Early Warning Score (News) has the potential to transform patient safety in our hospitals and improve patient outcomes.
  • (15) In January a similar group of MPs warned of a threat to Cameron in 2014 unless he improves the Tories' standing.
  • (16) Families believed that physicians would not listen (13% of sample), would not talk openly (32%), attempted to mislead them (48%), or did not warn about long-term neurodevelopmental problems (70%).
  • (17) He has also been a vocal opponent of gay marriage, appearing on the Today programme in the run-up to the same-sex marriage bill to warn that it would "cause confusion" – and asking in a Spectator column, after it was passed, "if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog".
  • (18) According to the report filed by the New York state department of financial services (NYSDFS), when warned by a US colleague about dealings with Iran, a Standard Chartered executive caustically replied: "You f---ing Americans.
  • (19) The following examinations could be proposed: in high risk cases determined before pregnancy, a chorionic villus sampling should be done between the 9th and 11th weeks of gestation; in low risk cases such as advanced maternal age, a first trimester chorionic villus sampling or a second trimester amniocentesis could be chosen; in the case of Down's syndrome, warning signs, for example ultrasonographic or biological parameters, a second trimester placental biopsy to relieve the parents' anxiety; in high risk cases such as ultrasonographic malformations, late placental biopsy or cordocentesis.
  • (20) The conclusion is to warn the orthopaedic surgeons to look carefully what model is behind the pretty coloured results.