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Definition of Distress call
1. Noun. An internationally recognized signal sent out by a ship or plane indicating that help is needed.
Generic synonyms: Sign, Signal, Signaling
Specialized synonyms: Sos, Mayday
Lexicographical Neighbors of Distress Call
Literary usage of Distress call
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Book of Family Prayer: Bible Lessons with Meditations for Each Day, Arranged by Nils Jakob Jensen Laache (1902)
"... but "in all your need and distress call upon the name of : Lord, pray, praise,
and give thanks." When God gives you joy ep it in your heart, ..."
2. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observations by William Temple Hornaday (1922)
"A bear's distress call is: "Err-zww-oo-oo- oof! ... I said to myself: "That sounds
like a distress call," and listened to hear it repeated. ..."
3. Safety of Navigation on Water: Hearing[s] Before a Subcommittee of the by United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce (1912)
"That is, to teach them the distress call ? Mr. SCHANTZ. The distress call and
location. On our line we carry one man. We carry an extra man who just knows ..."
4. The Remains of Edmund Grindal: Successively Bishop of London and Archbishop by Edmund Grindal (1843)
"... being afflicted most worthily, did in their distress call upon the Lord for
mercy and help, he heard and relieved them, as appeareth by all the ..."
5. International Conference on Safety of Life at Sea: Messages from the by Andrew Furuseth, International Seamen's Union of America (1914)
"The Belgian delegation at London contended that this article obliged the master
of a vessel hearing a wireless distress call to render assistance, ..."
6. Selected Articles on Government Ownership of Telegraph and Telephone by Katharine Berry Judson (1914)
"Any station sending out a fraudulent distress call is guilty of a misdemeanor.
There are about one thousand ships under the government' regulations that arc ..."
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