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Meaning of "alarm call" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ALARM CALL

alarm call  [əˈlɑːm kɔːl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ALARM CALL

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Alarm call is a noun.
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WHAT DOES ALARM CALL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

alarm call

Alarm signal

In the field of animal communication, an alarm signal is an antipredator adaptation referring to various signals emitted by social animals in response to danger. Many primates and birds have elaborate alarm calls for warning conspecifics of approaching predators. For example, the characteristic alarm call of the Blackbird is a familiar sound in many gardens. Other animals, like fish and insects, may use other non-auditory signals, such as chemical messages. While visual signs have been suggested as alarm signals, they are easier to pinpoint by predators and less likely to be received by conspecifics, so have tended to be treated as a signal to the predator instead. An animal who signals an alarm is called an alarmer. Different calls may be used for predators on the ground or from the air. Often, the animals can tell which member of the group is making the call, so that they can disregard those of little reliability. Evidently, alarm signals promote survival by allowing the receivers of the alarm to escape from the source of peril, but this ecological safety system may come at a cost to the signaller.

Definition of alarm call in the English dictionary

The definition of alarm call in the dictionary is a telephone call that someone arranges to have made to them in order to wake them up in the morning.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ALARM CALL


all
ɔːl
ball
bɔːl
baseball
ˈbeɪsˌbɔːl
basketball
ˈbɑːskɪtˌbɔːl
call
kɔːl
fall
fɔːl
football
ˈfʊtˌbɔːl
hall
hɔːl
install
ɪnˈstɔːl
jackal
ˈdʒækɔːl
McCall
məˈkɔːl
Nepal
nɪˈpɔːl
outcall
ˈaʊtˌkɔːl
overall
ˈəʊvərˌɔːl
Paul
pɔːl
photocall
ˈfəʊtəʊkɔːl
recall
rɪˈkɔːl
robocall
ˈrəʊbəʊˌkɔːl
Rockall
ˈrɒkɔːl
scall
skɔːl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ALARM CALL

alap
alapa
alar
Alaric
alarm
alarm bells
alarm clock
alarm clock Briton
alarm signal
alarm system
alarmable
alarmed
alarmedly
alarming
alarmingly
alarmism
alarmist
alarum
alary

WORDS THAT END LIKE ALARM CALL

clarion call
close call
collect call
conference call
curtain call
emergency call
follow-up call
house call
line call
local call
long-distance call
on call
phone call
photo call
port of call
roll call
telephone call
too close to call
total recall
video call
wake-up call

Synonyms and antonyms of alarm call in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «alarm call» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ALARM CALL

Find out the translation of alarm call to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of alarm call from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «alarm call» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

唤醒电话
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

llamada despertador
570 millions of speakers

English

alarm call
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अलार्म कॉल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خِدْمَةُ التَنْبِيهِ بِالهَاتِف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сигнал побудки
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

serviço de chamada
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

এলার্ম কল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

réveil
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Panggilan penggera
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Weckruf
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

モーニングコール
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

비상 신호
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Telpon weker
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cuộc gọi báo thức
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எச்சரிக்கை அழைப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अलार्म कॉल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Alarm çağrısı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

chiamata di sveglia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

budzenie telefoniczne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сигнал будильника
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

apel de deșteptare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κλήση συναγερμού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

alarmroep
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

larmsignal
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

automatisk vekkeanrop
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of alarm call

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ALARM CALL»

The term «alarm call» is regularly used and occupies the 57.349 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ALARM CALL» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALARM CALL»

Discover the use of alarm call in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to alarm call and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Vehicle Security Systems: Build Your Own Alarm and ...
Every circuit in this book is clearly described and illustrated, and contains components that are easy to source.
A. L. Brown, 1996
2
Primate Anti-Predator Strategies
In playback experiments, woofs were diffused as the terrestrial alarm call and chutters as the aerial alarm call. The subjects responded to the terrestrial alarm call by woofs and to the aerial alarm call by chutters and woofs. After playbacks of  ...
Sharon Gursky-Doyen, K.A.I. Nekaris, 2007
3
Australian Magpie: Biology and Behaviour of an Unusual Songbird
Figure 9.4 Examples of the great variety of alarm calls in magpies, (a) Typical structure of the most common type of alarm call for relatively low level dangers. Particularly the first three columns represent the most common generic alarm call  ...
Gisela T. Kaplan, 2004
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Modern CMOS Circuits Manual
Inexpensive CMOS logic ICs such as the 4001 B can easily be used (in conjunction with one or more transistors) to make a variety of audible-output alarm-call generator circuits. These generators may give monotone, pulsed tone or warble ...
R. M. Marston, 1996
5
Call for the Dead
Call for the Dead, John le Carré’s first novel, is a brilliant thriller on many levels: as a sub rosa murder investigation; as a spy story with interwoven roots in wartime Germany; and as the first sight of a whole grey world of ...
John le Carré, 2008
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How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species
How, then, do infants come to recognize the correct association between a particular alarm call and one or two predator species? One answer may lie in the responses shown by adults when an infant gives an alarm call. As noted earlier ...
Dorothy L. Cheney, 1992
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Origins of Language: Constraints on hypotheses
He asks “What does it mean to claim that a word (or alarm call) is representational?” (1998a, p. 72), and answers the question in terms of neurological processes. His answer, in short, is that the monkey's 'mental image' of an eagle should be ...
Sverker Johansson, 2005
8
Songs, Roars, and Rituals: Communication in Birds, Mammals, ...
However, the call for the vulture was observed to occur in fewer than five cases. The results show that infants use the eagle alarm call rather nonspecifically to refer to a wide range of aerial predators, whereas adults have learned to use the  ...
Lesley J. Rogers, Gisela T. Kaplan, 2000
9
Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind
Suricates give one alarm call type to mammalian predators (primarily jackals, Canis mesomelas), a second type to hawks and eagles, and a third to snakes ( Manser 2001). Listeners respond in qualitatively different ways to the different alarm ...
Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth, 2008
10
Alarm Call
Quintin Jardine. ALARM CALL QUINTIN JARDINE headline www.headline.co.uk Copyright © 2004 Portador Ltd. The right of Quintin Jardine.
Quintin Jardine, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ALARM CALL»

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1
Crime report for July 5
Petal. Sunday calls. Officers responded to one alarm call, one disturbance, two medical calls, one public assist, one wreck with no injuries, and ... «Hattiesburg American, Jul 15»
2
Power back to the people in Europe
Therefore, this no vote should be taken as an alarm call across Europe. It is showing European bureaucrats that the world stage is not only ... «Malta Independent Online, Jul 15»
3
Mark the 7/7 bombing anniversary by carrying on and keeping calm
... only left 52 innocent people dead but also sounded an alarm call to us all that Islamist terrorism was a real and present danger to our country. «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
4
DiS Does Glastonbury 2015 - the AZ Review
... out riff after riff in all the right places, which ultimately justifies the early Sunday morning alarm call after the previous night's excesses. (DG). «Drowned In Sound, Jul 15»
5
John Mullin: Sustained by spirit of humanity
... he had one of those petty squabbles with his wife we all have with our families because he had tarried in bed beyond the 6:45 alarm call. «Scotsman, Jul 15»
6
Thanks Victoria Taylor: WIRED's best bits from Reddit's AMAs
Also, when some Colobus monkeys find a very precious piece of food, it calls the alarm call that it would make if a snake were to arrive, and all ... «Wired.co.uk, Jul 15»
7
Fall in the number of false alarm fire calls
... laboratories had again contributed to St Andrews University being responsible for the highest rate of false alarm call-outs by the fire service in ... «The Courier, Jul 15»
8
Timmins police make arrest in Canadian Tire standoff
Shortly after 4 a.m. on June 17, employees of Canadian Tire attended the store in response to an alarm call. Upon entering the store, the ... «SooToday.com, Jul 15»
9
What the internet told you about Swansea City today
... so that tired players can rest up between gruelling sessions. D Legakis/Athena Picture Agency. Let's hope they won't need an alarm call! «WalesOnline, Jul 15»
10
Northfield Village teen charged with felony for making alleged …
Northfield Village teen charged with felony for making alleged 'swatting' false alarm call. by Eric Marotta | Editor Published: June 30, 2015 5: ... «The-News-Leader, Jun 15»

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