Meaning

1 senses
  1. A smoke detector.

    an alarm that is tripped off by fire or smoke

Examples

8 sentences
  1. What set off the smoke alarm?

    deWas hat den Rauchmelder ausgelöst? — Waldelfe

  2. The smoke alarm has never been maintained.

    deDer Rauchmelder wurde nie gewartet. — MUIRIEL

  3. What Tom was cooking set off the smoke alarm.

  4. The smoke alarm goes off every time I cook.

    ruДатчик дыма срабатывает каждый раз, когда я готовлю. — marafon

  5. We had all just fallen asleep when the smoke alarm went off.

Forms

plural: smoke alarms
Singularsmoke alarm
Pluralsmoke alarms

regular

Synonyms

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

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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