alert, watchful
(adjective) engaged in or accustomed to close observation; “caught by a couple of alert cops”; “alert enough to spot the opportunity when it came”; “constantly alert and vigilant, like a sentinel on duty”
alert, alive, awake
(adjective) mentally perceptive and responsive; “an alert mind”; “alert to the problems”; “alive to what is going on”; “awake to the dangers of her situation”; “was now awake to the reality of his predicament”
alert, brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy
(adjective) quick and energetic; “a brisk walk in the park”; “a lively gait”; “a merry chase”; “traveling at a rattling rate”; “a snappy pace”; “a spanking breeze”
alarm, alert, warning signal, alarum
(noun) an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
alert, alerting
(noun) a warning serves to make you more alert to danger
alert, qui vive
(noun) condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action; “bombers were put on alert during the crisis”
alarm, alert
(verb) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
After the HMS Alert
Alert
A community in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada; the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world.
An alternative name for Alharod, a village in Varzaqan County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran.
An unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Decatur County, Indiana, United States.
• alter, alter-, altre, artel, later, ratel, taler, telar
alert (comparative more alert, superlative most alert)
Attentive; awake; on guard.
(obsolete) brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
alert (plural alerts)
An alarm.
A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
(military) A state of readiness for potential combat.
alert (third-person singular simple present alerts, present participle alerting, simple past and past participle alerted)
To give warning to.
• alter, alter-, altre, artel, later, ratel, taler, telar
Source: Wiktionary
A*lert", a. Etym: [F. alerte, earlier Ă l'erte on the watch, fr. It. all' erta on the watch, prop. (standing) on a height, where one can look around; erta a declivity, steep, erto steep, p. p. of ergere, erigere, to erect, raise, L. erigere. See Erect.]
1. Watchful; vigilant; active in vigilance.
2. Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity. An alert young fellow. Addison.
Syn.
– Active; agile; lively; quick; prompt.
A*lert", n. (Mil.)
Definition: An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning. "We have had an alert." Farrow. On the alert, on the lookout or watch against attack or danger; ready to act.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
