Synonym: attentive, lively, nimble, on the job, prompt, ready, watchful, dull, slow, torpid. Similar words: dealer, ruler, clerk, killer, gallery, clergy, hitler, bowler. Meaning: [ə'lɜːt] n. 1. condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action 2. a warning serves to make you more alert to danger 3. an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger. v. warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness. adj. 1. very attentive or observant 2. mentally responsive 3. not unconscious; especially having become conscious 4. (usually followed by `to') showing acute awareness; mentally perceptive.
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151. First Alert, the market leader, said the detectors were fine.
152. Time allowed 04:56 Read in studio A red flood alert has been issued tonight for one of the region's rivers.
153. Read in studio A city centre is still sealed off following a security alert earlier this afternoon.
154. When I come away from working with Slatkin I always feel more mentally alert than when I started.
155. He was alert and neurologically normal with a Glasgow coma score of 14 on admission.
156. A spokesman for Walton Hospital said security would be put on full alert in the wake of the incident.
157. Chital are extremely wary animals that alert each other to danger with a whistling call.
158. The alert, attentive mind, the intense concentration needed, is very demanding.
159. A man struck by lightning was awake and alert Friday, but had no memory of the flash that knocked him unconscious.
160. Third parties need to be alert to the possibility of change and to the actual practices of the body.
161. He moved down the corridor and around the corner, where two more armed guards stood, alert, against either wall.
162. It was the normal state of red alert, panic, and disarray in the Bronx County Building.
163. However, the teacher was still alert to the possibility that some children might use collaboration as a cover.
164. This applies both to the mentally alert and the mentally confused.
165. With their many variants and subdivisions they provide a wonderfully expressive earful for the alert feline as it goes about its business.
166. Jamie Shepherd was well over eighty, yet he was as mentally alert as a man half his age.
167. If we bypass the decision we simply move into autopilot and the red alert comes into play.
168. I assume this is an isolated incident, as the Windows message that comes up would surely alert any keen quality controller.
169. They pursued the fugitives for about nine miles and then lit bonfires on the hill-tops to alert the local peasantry.
170. Safety is a matter of active attention and alert work practices, not blind obedience to arbitrary rules.
171. They even set up a neat military system of two-man sentry duties, to make sure they stayed alert.
172. She sank deep down again, unable to stay alert, and saw without wanting to a giant Catherine-wheel in the sky.
173. All of which keeps the pilot alert and in control, even on the most fatiguing of journeys.
174. Kim woke and lay there in the darkness, strangely alert, listening.
175. The mind may still be active and alert. 9 Don't lie awake for ages wondering why you are not sleeping.
176. Then he ran to his car and drove five miles to alert police and park rangers.
177. Only once was the congressional retreat beneath the Greenbrier Hotel put on alert and readied for possible occupancy.
178. The wireless remote receiver also can be connected to your home security system to alert the police.
179. The study was limited by researchers' inability to interview patients who were unconscious or not sufficiently alert to give complete answers.
180. Above,(www.Sentencedict.com) our full combat air patrol was on the alert.