alert
pronunciation
How to pronounce alert in British English:
UK [əˈlɜːt]
How to pronounce alert in American English:
US [əˈlɜːrt]
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- 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
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- Verb:
- warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
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- Adjective:
- very attentive or observant
- mentally responsive
- not unconscious; especially having become conscious
- (usually followed by `to') showing acute awareness; mentally perceptive
Word Origin
- alert
- alert: [17] Alert comes, via French, from an Italian phrase all’ erta ‘on the look-out’, or literally ‘at the (alla) watch-tower (erta)’. Erta was short for torre erta, literally ‘high tower’, in which the adjective erta ‘high’ came ultimately from Latin ērectus, the past participle of ērigere ‘raise’.=> erect
- alert (adv.)
- "on the watch," 1590s, from French alerte "vigilant" (17c.), from phrase à l'erte "on the watch," from Italian all'erta "to the height," from erta "lookout, high tower," noun use of fem. of erto, past participle of ergere "raise up," from Latin erigere "raise" (see erect). The adjective is attested from 1610s, the noun from 1803, and the verb from 1868. Related: Alerted; alerting.
Example
- 1. Nations prepare as world health organization raises the alert level .
- 2. And once someone clicks through , you will receive an email alert .
- 3. Security forces in india 's biggest cities were put on heightened alert .
- 4. The alert among you will realise that the two numbers are identical .
- 5. The president looked weak but alert .