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Definition of siren in English: sirennoun ˈsʌɪr(ə)nˈsaɪrən 1A device that makes a loud prolonged signal or warning sound. Example sentencesExamples - The sirens screamed even louder as the ambulance had arrived.
- The sound of sirens filled the air as fire engines and ambulances dashed to the scene.
- After a few seconds, the sirens started to sound louder again.
- Most of the war was spent at Windsor castle, where the princesses learned the art of rolling out of bed and into air raid shelters when the sirens sounded.
- The piercing alarms of air raid sirens were signalling an attack.
- Sounding her siren and firing distress rockets the ship tried desperately to make the beach but as the lifeboat crews assembled the steamer gave a final lurch and went down.
- The loud sound of sirens suddenly pierced the quiet scene and she jumped up instantly.
- The nation came to a standstill in a two-minute silence at 10.00 am, signalled by deafening air-raid sirens and traffic grinding to a halt.
- When the sensor picks up violent movement, such as the item being grabbed, a signal is sent to a base unit which sounds a siren.
- Ironically, the sound of the sirens disappeared after the gang fled.
- As if on cue, the sounds of an ambulance siren pierced the air.
- Although no-one was directly injured, alarm sirens began to sound throughout the control room.
- Just then, she heard the loud blaring sound of an ambulance siren as it screamed by her vehicle, hurrying up the road in the one empty lane that had been sectioned off by orange cones.
- There were police cars, ambulances and fire engines, all sounding sirens in an endless procession south.
- I began to notice the constant sounds of sirens and loud unexplained noises.
- A loud klaxon and a blaring siren signaled the start of the balloon busting derby.
- As Nagasaki had been targeted in the past, people in the city had become blasé when the air raid siren sounded.
- The sound of air raid sirens filled the air, and hundreds of people dressed as soldiers of different nationalities filled the streets of Pickering for the seventh annual wartime weekend.
- He dozed off into a pleasant slumber before being woken up to the sound of Klaxon sirens and flashing red lights from the hallway.
- If you listen carefully to an ambulance siren or a train whistle, you will notice that the noise sounds higher while the vehicle is approaching, and lower after the vehicle has passed by.
Synonyms alarm, alarm bell, warning bell, danger signal whistle, horn British hooter archaic tocsin 2Greek Mythology
Each of a number of women or winged creatures whose singing lured unwary sailors on to rocks. Example sentencesExamples - Both sirens and mermaids have musical talents; bird-sirens sing and play the pipes and the lyre, whereas mermaids rely on their voices to entice sailors to their death.
- The vacant-eyed sirens sing only to the moon and a passing sea-bird.
- There was also a balcony that overlooked the ocean, where he swore that the sounds of the waves were truly mythical sirens singing him to sleep.
- There was an altogether more subtle look at his show which drew on Homer and Plato's tales of sirens singing unsuspecting sailors to their deaths.
- He's smart enough to avoid things like singing sirens.
- 2.1 A woman who is considered to be alluring or fascinating but also dangerous in some way.
Example sentencesExamples - Get in tough with your inner siren and go for high-octane glamour: think sequins, heels and a slash of red lipstick
- They've got the glossy good looks and fleeting A-list appeal to grab a famous Liam, but want to be more than lucky pop princesses turned tacky tabloid sirens.
- She is the movie's sexpot, a siren that irresistibly attracts men.
- He hadn't been able to resist this still elegant, once-upon-a-time siren, whose beauty had been hidden by the unkindness of time and circumstance.
- It's as if she can't make up her mind whether she wants to be a siren, a vamp or a frump.
- Dubbed the ‘Girl with the Perfect Figure,’ Page was one of America's first sex sirens.
- Reich is currently on a three-month North American wildride with fellow siren, slow-burning folkie Addie Brownlee.
Synonyms seductress, temptress, femme fatale, Mata Hari, enchantress, Circe, Lorelei, Delilah flirt, coquette, Lolita informal mantrap North American informal vamp, hoochie
3An eel-like American amphibian with tiny forelimbs, no hindlimbs, small eyes, and external gills, typically living in muddy pools. Family Sirenidae: genera Siren and Pseudobranchus, and three species, including the greater siren (S. lacertina) Example sentencesExamples - Sirens are probably the most ancient line of salamanders now alive on planet earth.
- Adults sirens are aquatic and neotenic, with lengths ranging from 4-36 inches.
- I presented a captive Siren with a small crayfish once.
Phrases Used in reference to the appeal of something that is alluring but also potentially harmful or dangerous. a mountaineer who hears the siren song of K2 Example sentencesExamples - I have no idea what drove him to begin playing music, what siren song it used to make him devote his life to it.
- I didn't need lunch everyday, nor the perpetual siren call of fully-stocked free-for-me bars.
- He heard the siren song of Hollywood, and swam to its shores, blissfully unaware of the jagged critical rocks beneath him.
- It was the first time I heard the siren song of ‘cheaper, cheaper, cheaper,’ and I had yet to learn that cheaper is not better.
- Ever wish that you could actually focus your intellect on something worthwhile, but get pulled inevitably, irresistibly, by the siren call of idleness, and waste yet another day?
- Even if it's related to the boredom often felt in offices or a basic human need to feel wanted, the siren call of the inbox is hard to resist.
- Like many busy professionals, I have succumbed to the siren call of productivity.
- Women are not listening to the siren call of leisure.
- It is easy to Succumb to the siren song of your sofa, or perhaps to the comforting coolness of several pints of ice cream.
- Two minutes before curtain up, the performer hears the siren call of a proper job in a bank.
Synonyms temptation, enticement, attraction, pull, draw, appeal
Origin Middle English (denoting an imaginary type of snake): from Old French sirene, from late Latin Sirena, feminine of Latin Siren, from Greek Seirēn. In classical mythology the Sirens were bird-women whose beautiful singing lured sailors to their doom on submerged rocks. People hear a siren song or siren call when they are attracted to something that is both alluring and potentially harmful or dangerous. In 1819 the French engineer and physicist Charles Cagniard de la Tour used siren as the name for his invention of an acoustic instrument for producing musical tones. Later in the century steamships began to use a much larger instrument on the same lines as a foghorn or warning device, and in the Second World War sirens sent people scurrying to bomb-shelters for protection from air raids. The phrase siren suit from the 1930s was from its use as a one-piece garment for women in air-raid shelters.
Rhymes Byron, Chiron, environ, Myron Definition of siren in US English: sirennounˈsīrənˈsaɪrən 1A device that makes a loud prolonged sound as a signal or warning. Example sentencesExamples - If you listen carefully to an ambulance siren or a train whistle, you will notice that the noise sounds higher while the vehicle is approaching, and lower after the vehicle has passed by.
- Although no-one was directly injured, alarm sirens began to sound throughout the control room.
- There were police cars, ambulances and fire engines, all sounding sirens in an endless procession south.
- After a few seconds, the sirens started to sound louder again.
- Most of the war was spent at Windsor castle, where the princesses learned the art of rolling out of bed and into air raid shelters when the sirens sounded.
- Just then, she heard the loud blaring sound of an ambulance siren as it screamed by her vehicle, hurrying up the road in the one empty lane that had been sectioned off by orange cones.
- The nation came to a standstill in a two-minute silence at 10.00 am, signalled by deafening air-raid sirens and traffic grinding to a halt.
- Sounding her siren and firing distress rockets the ship tried desperately to make the beach but as the lifeboat crews assembled the steamer gave a final lurch and went down.
- I began to notice the constant sounds of sirens and loud unexplained noises.
- Ironically, the sound of the sirens disappeared after the gang fled.
- The loud sound of sirens suddenly pierced the quiet scene and she jumped up instantly.
- When the sensor picks up violent movement, such as the item being grabbed, a signal is sent to a base unit which sounds a siren.
- The piercing alarms of air raid sirens were signalling an attack.
- He dozed off into a pleasant slumber before being woken up to the sound of Klaxon sirens and flashing red lights from the hallway.
- The sound of air raid sirens filled the air, and hundreds of people dressed as soldiers of different nationalities filled the streets of Pickering for the seventh annual wartime weekend.
- As if on cue, the sounds of an ambulance siren pierced the air.
- The sirens screamed even louder as the ambulance had arrived.
- As Nagasaki had been targeted in the past, people in the city had become blasé when the air raid siren sounded.
- The sound of sirens filled the air as fire engines and ambulances dashed to the scene.
- A loud klaxon and a blaring siren signaled the start of the balloon busting derby.
Synonyms alarm, alarm bell, warning bell, danger signal 2Greek Mythology
Each of a number of women or winged creatures whose singing lured unwary sailors on to rocks. Example sentencesExamples - There was an altogether more subtle look at his show which drew on Homer and Plato's tales of sirens singing unsuspecting sailors to their deaths.
- Both sirens and mermaids have musical talents; bird-sirens sing and play the pipes and the lyre, whereas mermaids rely on their voices to entice sailors to their death.
- He's smart enough to avoid things like singing sirens.
- There was also a balcony that overlooked the ocean, where he swore that the sounds of the waves were truly mythical sirens singing him to sleep.
- The vacant-eyed sirens sing only to the moon and a passing sea-bird.
- 2.1 A woman who is considered to be alluring or fascinating but also dangerous in some way.
Example sentencesExamples - It's as if she can't make up her mind whether she wants to be a siren, a vamp or a frump.
- Dubbed the ‘Girl with the Perfect Figure,’ Page was one of America's first sex sirens.
- She is the movie's sexpot, a siren that irresistibly attracts men.
- Reich is currently on a three-month North American wildride with fellow siren, slow-burning folkie Addie Brownlee.
- They've got the glossy good looks and fleeting A-list appeal to grab a famous Liam, but want to be more than lucky pop princesses turned tacky tabloid sirens.
- Get in tough with your inner siren and go for high-octane glamour: think sequins, heels and a slash of red lipstick
- He hadn't been able to resist this still elegant, once-upon-a-time siren, whose beauty had been hidden by the unkindness of time and circumstance.
Synonyms seductress, temptress, femme fatale, mata hari, enchantress, circe, lorelei, delilah
3An eel-like American amphibian with tiny forelimbs, no hind limbs, small eyes, and external gills, typically living in muddy pools. Family Sirenidae: genera Siren and Pseudobranchus, and three species, including the greater siren (S. lacertina) Example sentencesExamples - I presented a captive Siren with a small crayfish once.
- Adults sirens are aquatic and neotenic, with lengths ranging from 4-36 inches.
- Sirens are probably the most ancient line of salamanders now alive on planet earth.
Origin Middle English (denoting an imaginary type of snake): from Old French sirene, from late Latin Sirena, feminine of Latin Siren, from Greek Seirēn. |