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📖 Определения и значения для слова alarm

📒 a loud noise or a signal that warns people of danger or of a problem

  • She decided to sound the alarm (= warn people that the situation was dangerous).
  • I hammered on all the doors to raise the alarm.
  • By the time the alarm was raised the intruders had escaped.

📒 a device that warns people of a particular danger, or that a particular person is in danger

  • a burglar/fire/smoke alarm
  • The cat set off the alarm (= made it start ringing).
  • A car alarm went off in the middle of the night (= started ringing).

📒 a ringing sound or a tune played by a clock or your phone after you have set it to play at a particular time to wake you up

  • The alarm went off at 7 o'clock.
  • I set my alarm for 6.30.

📒 fear and worry that somebody feels when something dangerous or unpleasant might happen

  • in alarm What have you done?’ Ellie cried in alarm.
  • I felt a growing sense of alarm when he did not return that night.
  • The doctor said there was no cause for alarm.

📒 if you say that alarm bells are ringing, you mean that people are starting to feel worried and to suspect that something is wrong

  • The government’s proposal has set alarm bells ringing for people on low incomes.
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