Meaning

3 senses
  1. An electromechanical or electronic bell, klaxon, chime, horn, speaker, strobe light or other device which warns people in a building etc. of a possible fire or other condition requiring evacuation.

    Feueralarm, Feuermelder

    пожа́рная трево́гаpožárnaja trevóga

  2. The sound or other warning made by a fire alarm.

    an alarm that is tripped off by fire or smoke

  3. An emergency response to a fire by the fire department with manpower and equipment.

    A four fire-alarm fire ripped through a row of 2.5 story frame dwellings during the early morning hours

Examples

33 sentences
  1. The fire alarm rang.

    Спрацювала пожежна сигналізація. — deniko

    ruСработала пожарная сигнализация. — marafon

    deDer Feueralarm erscholl. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. All of a sudden, the fire alarm went off.

    dePlötzlich ging der Feueralarm los. — Wolf

  3. Tom stopped singing when he heard the fire alarm go off.

  4. Tom pulled the fire alarm.

    deTom löste den Feueralarm aus. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. I was listening to my iPod, so I didn't hear the fire alarm.

    ruЯ слушал мой iPod, поэтому не услышал пожарную тревогу. — odexed

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
device which warns people of a possible fire:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
device which warns people of a possible fire:

Origin

From fire + alarm.

From fire + alarm.

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Forms

plural: fire alarms
Singularfire alarm
Pluralfire alarms

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • an alarm that is tripped off by fire or smoke:smoke alarm

See also

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