TOCSIN Synonyms
There are 5 hypernyms of the word tocsin. (close relations)
Definition of TOCSIN
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Best Alternative Words for TOCSIN
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alarm | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • fear resulting from the awareness of danger • a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event • an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger • a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time verb • fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised • warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness | ||||||||
alert | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
adjective • engaged in or accustomed to close observation noun • condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action • a warning serves to make you more alert to danger • an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger adjective satellite • quick and energetic • mentally perceptive and responsive verb • warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness | ||||||||
bell | nounn | |||||||
noun • a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck • a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905) • a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed • English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961) • the sound of a bell being struck • United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922) • (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m. • the shape of a bell • a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument • the flared opening of a tubular device verb • attach a bell to | ||||||||
buzzer | nounn | |||||||
noun • a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed • a signaling device that makes a buzzing sound | ||||||||
signal | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message • any incitement to action • an electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength) whose modulation represents coded information about the source from which it comes adjective satellite • notably out of the ordinary verb • communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs • be a signal for or a symptom of | ||||||||
siren | nounn | |||||||
noun • a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive • a sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived • a warning signal that is a loud wailing sound • an acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning • eellike aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills | ||||||||
warning | nounn | |||||||
noun • a message informing of danger • cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness) • notification of something, usually in advance adjective satellite • serving to warn | ||||||||
alarm bell | nounn | |||||||
noun • the sound of an alarm (usually a bell) | ||||||||
warning bell | nounn | |||||||
noun • a bell used to sound an alarm |