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alert English

Meaning alert meaning

What does alert mean?
Definitions in simple English

alert

To be alert is to be awake; attentive

alert

An alarm. A notification; something that is observed.

alert

To alert is to bring notice to; warn.

alert

(= alarm) 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 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 (= alive, awake) 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 (= brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking) 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 condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action bombers were put on alert during the crisis (= alerting) a warning serves to make you more alert to danger (= alarm) an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger

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alert · verb

Examples alert examples

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Simple sentences

We must be alert to dangers.
The climber stayed alert while climbing the precipice.
Be alert when you cross a busy street!
A tsunami is coming, so please be on the alert.
The tsunami alert was cancelled.
The situation has got us all on alert.
Tom's alert.
Everyone was alert.
Red alert!
When I saw his face, I was instantly on red alert.
Go to red alert.
They are alert to the dangers of food poisoning.
The soldiers were on the alert.
Cobras are always very alert.
Stay alert.
Tom will alert Mary.
I'll alert Tom.
He didn't want to be cheated again, and was always on the alert.

Movie subtitles

I'll, um, alert the coroner for you.
Are there mountaineers among you.? Men who would climb up, through this night, up to Sella cottage, to alert the skiers?
There is nothing left to be done. alert the executioner!
Be alert. That's it.
Be alert.
I be alert. I don't know what it is, but I be it.
They want fit young people - alert and quick.
You are a very alert young couple. but it's quite useless for you to think, as you are undoubtedly doing, of a way out of your dilemma.
Keeping my body fit, keeping my mind alert. and keeping the landlord appeased, that's a full-time job.
Mentally alert fresh as a new-laid egg.
Alert all your friends abroad.
You are to make yourselves as inconspicuous as possible and be on the alert for anything suspicious.
Declare a state of general alert.
General alert!
Alert all military and civil authorities.
You are a very alert young couple. but it's quite useless for you to think of a way out of your dilemma.
Keep alert, Watson.
Are you alert, Number 20?
Biddle calling. Blue alert.
Blue alert!
Never has Baptiste been more cheerful and alert.
Alert the post, Sergeant. - Yes, sir!
Put the other units on alert.
Company alert.
The president has urged all citizens to be on the alert for any information about this man, and to transmit such information immediately to the police, the army or the FBI.
Be alert. Be alert, or papa don't go out at all.
I be alert.
I went from door to door, my ears alert. indiscreet and amused.
General alert to all sheriff's squads and troopers working district.
Alert the border, no-one is to enter Spain.
Stand on alert.
Alert Juvenile and stand by to send help.
He's had a deep sleep and he may awaken bright and alert.
No, I know that the tsar will try to send mail to Irkutsk. Because it is the only way left to him to alert the Grand Duke.
At any rate it's a world where a modern, intellectually alert person suffocates.

News and current affairs

The failure was caused by the absence of appropriate international institutions that would be alert to the broad spectrum of potential disasters.
Above all, it requires international agencies and groupings that remain alert to the risks of illiberal democracies.
These weapons can be put on alert in a way that would be highly visible to US satellites and the global media.
They do not have to detonate a nuclear weapon, but only alert adversaries to the dramatic increase in the political stakes and dangers of a showdown.
Both require active and alert citizens who engage what they do not like rather than calling for the state to clamp down on it.
NEW HAVEN - World Kidney Day, to be held on March 12, is part of a global health campaign meant to alert us to the impact of kidney disease.
Obviously, unions need to be alert to such bad behavior.
The world must therefore be alert, so that this hatred does not reawaken and direct itself against Jews or other peoples.
The Saudi religious establishment has long been on alert to this rival and threatening entity.
President Barack Obama came to office alert to all these threats and determined, as no other US president - and almost no other world leader - has been, to eliminate them.
Samuel Huntington did alert us to the danger.
Each new terror alert or high-tech innovation, it seems, makes new demands on our liberty in the name of security.
But providing incentives for governments to maintain such forces at a high level of alert and setting standards for equipment, training, and professionalism is something the UN can and should do.
By not sharing their food with intestinal parasites, they, too, would become more alert, stay longer in school, and grow up to be more productive adults - another cause that needs much more public attention.
But that can be done without weapons on high alert, and with drastically reduced arsenals in the case of the US and Russia, and, at worst, at current levels for the other nuclear-armed states.
The problem is not individual error. The failure was caused by the absence of appropriate international institutions that would be alert to the broad spectrum of potential disasters.
China's move, however, put the rest of the world on alert.
For the pessimists (or realists, depending on your perspective), Israel must remain on maximum alert to minimize the risks that it faces.
The message was that Israel must remain mobilized and alert in a hostile environment, and that its survival depends on the cohesion of its citizens' army, as well as on solidarity with those sent into battle.
And we will launch a UN Global Vulnerability Alert, collecting real-time information on the social effects of the economic crisis worldwide.
In fact, we need for food security what the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel has done for climate change: a science-based red-alert system for the planet.
Not surprisingly, the US refuses to de-alert its own nuclear missiles if Russia will not.
So nearly 2,000 weapons of mass destruction still face each other on high alert, maximizing the prospect of a catastrophe through human or system error or cyber sabotage.
It is also why we are creating a new Global Impact Vulnerability Alert System, giving us real-time data and analysis on socio-economic conditions around the world.

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