(n.) One of three sea nymphs, -- or, according to some writers, of two, -- said to frequent an island near the coast of Italy, and to sing with such sweetness that they lured mariners to destruction.
(n.) An enticing, dangerous woman.
(n.) Something which is insidious or deceptive.
(n.) A mermaid.
(n.) Any long, slender amphibian of the genus Siren or family Sirenidae, destitute of hind legs and pelvis, and having permanent external gills as well as lungs. They inhabit the swamps, lagoons, and ditches of the Southern United States. The more common species (Siren lacertina) is dull lead-gray in color, and becames two feet long.
(n.) An instrument for producing musical tones and for ascertaining the number of sound waves or vibrations per second which produce a note of a given pitch. The sounds are produced by a perforated rotating disk or disks. A form with two disks operated by steam or highly compressed air is used sounding an alarm to vessels in fog.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a siren; bewitching, like a siren; fascinating; alluring; as, a siren song.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dictated by underlying physicochemical constraints, deceived at times by the lulling tones of the siren entropy, and constantly vulnerable to the vagaries of other more pervasive forms of biological networking and information transfer encoded in the genes of virus and invading microorganisms, protein biorecognition in higher life forms, and particularly in mammals, represents the finely tuned molecular avenues for the genome to transfer its information to the next generation.
(2) Emergency medical services providers routinely respond to emergencies using lights and siren.
(3) Every now and then some rich Oga or Madam comes along in their bulletproof cars and wailing sirens, and distorts the delicate equilibrium of this body of traffic.
(4) Off the south-west coast of Ibiza stands Es Vedrà, a 400m-high limestone rock which legend suggests was the island of the Sirens who lured sailors to their deaths in Homer's Odyssey.
(5) At 6pm it sounds like a war zone outside the office: you can hear nothing but sirens and the almost continuous drone of helicopters overhead.
(6) horns of cars, sirens of emergency vehicles and alarm signals of railroad crossings, and then displays them as vibration to the driver.
(7) The strange thing is, society is perhaps not quite in the same shape as most of the political elite - or for that matter, the siren voices who would have you believe that "everyone's middle class nowadays" - suggest.
(8) As dusk fell across the city a motorcade of flashing lights and sirens escorted him to the airport, where he thanked his hosts and organisers and the vice-president, Joe Biden, escorted him to the plane.
(9) Updated at 11.10pm GMT 10.29pm GMT @RanaGaza, on Twitter here , uploads audio of sirens in Gaza City and two strikes moments ago.
(10) IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) A few minutes ago, sirens in Tel Aviv sent residents running for shelter.
(11) As Operation Protective Edge launched, sirens sounded over large areas of Israel's south and air raid shelters were opened.
(12) They should ignore the siren voices about Ukip pacts, which would put the party back for years.
(13) Video by Chris Whitworth and Alex Purcell Victimhood is a real, brutal fact, and Ben Carson's Holocaust logic denies that | Gayatri Devi Read more Asked about abortion, another siren call to voters who dominate the Republican primary, Carson said he would appoint supreme court judges to overturn Roe v Wade , the 1973 decision that enshrines the right.
(14) They moved rapidly, but without lights or sirens; they were not heading into an emergency.
(15) In Trafalgar Square at 6.40pm, sirens could be heard from almost all directions.
(16) "I was here since 7am and just heard sirens and it was over so fast," said Daniel McKenzie from Darlington.
(17) Their faces stared up from the dusty stretch of tarmac outside New Cairo's police academy, a silent roll call of butchery laid out like a human carpet amid a cacophony of chants, sirens and camera clicks in the morning sun.
(18) The British Wind Energy Association said it was delighted that Miliband had "rightly ignored the siren calls to abandon wind as the driving force for reaching the [low carbon] targets".
(19) I’ve never seen so many police here, against the blare of sirens.
(20) Its rocket fire has caused fear and panic among Israelis in south and central Israel, with sirens sounding many times a day warning people to seek shelter.
Whistle
Definition:
(v. i.) To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a similar sound, or series of notes, from the mouth or beak, as birds.
(v. i.) To make a shrill sound with a wind or steam instrument, somewhat like that made with the lips; to blow a sharp, shrill tone.
(v. i.) To sound shrill, or like a pipe; to make a sharp, shrill sound; as, a bullet whistles through the air.
(v. t.) To form, utter, or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a tune or an air.
(v. t.) To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
(v. i.) A sharp, shrill, more or less musical sound, made by forcing the breath through a small orifice of the lips, or through or instrument which gives a similar sound; the sound used by a sportsman in calling his dogs; the shrill note of a bird; as, the sharp whistle of a boy, or of a boatswain's pipe; the blackbird's mellow whistle.
(v. i.) The shrill sound made by wind passing among trees or through crevices, or that made by bullet, or the like, passing rapidly through the air; the shrill noise (much used as a signal, etc.) made by steam or gas escaping through a small orifice, or impinging against the edge of a metallic bell or cup.
(v. i.) An instrument in which gas or steam forced into a cavity, or against a thin edge, produces a sound more or less like that made by one who whistles through the compressed lips; as, a child's whistle; a boatswain's whistle; a steam whistle (see Steam whistle, under Steam).
(v. i.) The mouth and throat; -- so called as being the organs of whistling.
Example Sentences:
(1) I did not speak to Diego at the final whistle, losing so late in the game was too big a disappointment, especially when Romelu Lukaku was surrounded by three or four defenders and still scored.” That was something Martínez could agree with.
(2) But minutes after the final whistle, 76% of respondents to a Corriere della Sport online poll were blaming Lippi and in the post-match press conference the man himself was quick to take the blame, appearing to be anxiously awaiting the moment he can disappear quietly from the scene to be replaced by the Fiorentina manager, Cesare Prandelli, a switch decided with little fuss and no media debate just before the World Cup.
(3) There are currently five separate criminal prosecutions relating to official leaks under way, a surge in activity that national security experts say is a worrying attack on the rights of whistle blowers.
(4) The audience, energised by an early heckler who was swiftly ejected from the hall at Jerusalem's International Convention Centre, received Obama's message with cheers, applause, whistles and several standing ovations.
(5) Adrian Bailey, the BIS committee chair, said TTIP had the potential to help the UK economy and criticised the “dog whistle” politics used by both supporters and opponents of the deal.
(6) At the final whistle there were raucous celebrations in Gijón's El Molinón stadium and all over Algeria.
(7) The final whistle blew and virtually all the Scarborough fans ran on to the pitch to 'celebrate'.
(8) Some information regarding possible meaning of the whistles was obtained.
(9) 29 min: There have been so many offside decisions in this game, the referee's whistle is currently more aurally intrusive than the vuvuzelas.
(10) Come on.” The pair, who share a strained relationship born of regular clashes since Mourinho arrived in English football in 2004, did not acknowledge each other on the final whistle, once Chelsea had reasserted their five-point lead at the top of the table and condemned Arsenal to a first league loss of the season.
(11) As the final whistle blew, Wenger, suddenly wreathed in smiles, hugged his staff, players and even Alan Pardew, a managerial rival with whom he has not always enjoyed the most cordial of technical area relations.
(12) 5.56pm GMT 26 min: Shaw whistles a low ball into the Liverpool area from the left.
(13) Only five major types of whistle emissions were recorded, all stereotyped and each characteristic of the animal emitting it.
(14) The USS Nitze shot warning flares, sounded its whistles and attempted unsuccessfully to communicate with the Iranian boats during Tuesday’s incident, the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
(15) This article describes the use of the whistle and presents information collected from a nine-month prospective study of the endotracheal tube whistle.
(16) 50% In the dog-whistle rhetoric of Hammond and Theresa May, the archetypal contemporary migrant in Europe is from Africa.
(17) Steel bands, choirs and dancers performed while the mass of people, many with their children, blew horns and whistles as they passed alongside parliament.
(18) Manning and Snowden cannot have been the only US officials to have pondered blowing a whistle on data abuse.
(19) Hodgson’s methods, especially towards the end, were viewed as dated and a coach, as Roy Keane put it brashly a few weeks ago in a slightly different context, “who’s got the whistle around his neck and a clipboard” appears sought after.
(20) Southampton would have deserved the victory and it said everything that, when the whistle did go, the Midtjylland supporters punched the air and cheered loudly.