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Definition of Alarm bell
1. Noun. The sound of an alarm (usually a bell).
Definition of Alarm bell
1. Noun. (&lit alarm bell) ¹
2. Noun. (figuratively usually in plural) A sudden awareness of danger. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alarm Bell
Literary usage of Alarm bell
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary by James Curtis Hepburn (1873)
"An alarm bell, fire-bell. HATSU, n. A numeral used in counting the discharge of
guns. Ippatsu, one discharge, or one gun. Ni hatsu suru, to fire two guns. ..."
2. The Italian Novelists: From the Earliest Period Down to the Close of the by Thomas Roscoe (1836)
"CONCERNING AN ALARM-BELL INSTITUTED IN THE TIME OT KING GIOVANNI. IN the reign
of King Giovanni d'Atri, there was ordered to be erected a certain great bell ..."
3. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1878)
"This rings the alarm-bell, and 188. 169. moves the index, which signifies the depth.
As the water falls the float rewinds the spring. ..."
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