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Alert   /əlˈərt/   Listen
Alert

adjective
1.
Engaged in or accustomed to close observation.  Synonym: watchful.  "Alert enough to spot the opportunity when it came" , "Constantly alert and vigilant, like a sentinel on duty"
2.
Quick and energetic.  Synonyms: brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy.  "A lively gait" , "A merry chase" , "Traveling at a rattling rate" , "A snappy pace" , "A spanking breeze"
3.
Mentally perceptive and responsive.  Synonyms: alive, awake.  "Alert to the problems" , "Alive to what is going on" , "Awake to the dangers of her situation" , "Was now awake to the reality of his predicament"
verb
1.
Warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness.  Synonym: alarm.  "We alerted the new neighbors to the high rate of burglaries"
noun
1.
Condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action.  Synonym: qui vive.
2.
A warning serves to make you more alert to danger.  Synonym: alerting.
3.
An automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger.  Synonyms: alarm, alarum, warning signal.



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"Alert" Quotes from Famous Books



... spoken, to awaken the drowsy, and to excite the torpid. The instant he found each man on the alert, he resumed his orders, with a calmness that gave a direction to the powers of all, but still with an energy that he well knew was called for by the occasion. The enormous sheets of duck, which had looked like so many light clouds in the murky and threatening heavens, ...
— The Red Rover • James Fenimore Cooper

... river-drivers with their long poles and quick movements, looking not unlike a band of savages, have enough to do, with steady feet, and eyes on the alert. For of all the vast array of logs—and I once saw twenty-four thousand in one drive—not one goes through the sluice but is guided on to it by one or more of the drivers. They often ride standing on the floating logs, conducting this, pushing that, ...
— Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls • Anonymous

... sheet of tracing paper and trace each small a, letting them follow each other on the line, with about a quarter inch of space between each letter. During the process of tracing, the eye must be on the alert for peculiarities, notably the roundness or otherwise of the circle as a whole, the curve or angle of the arc and hook, the relative position of the toe. Note the shank, whether looped or barred, whether the top of it is above or below the body of the circle, whether it is vertical ...
— The Detection of Forgery • Douglas Blackburn

... guests would mingle with the rest, lending with their silken gowns and silken manners a touch of picturesqueness to the scene. I can well remember seeing the famous Wu Ting Fang, whose alert manner made him a general favourite. He prided himself upon it—and rightly. "How old do you think I am?" he asked his host one day. "Perhaps forty-five," was the reply. "Forty-five! What a guess! Sixty-five would have been nearer—and I mean to ...
— Sir Robert Hart - The Romance of a Great Career, 2nd Edition • Juliet Bredon

... submitted these instructions to my father, he at once took up a certain routine of duties that never varied. He brushed Monsieur Maurice's clothes, waited upon him at table, attended him in his bed-room, was always within hearing, always on the alert, and haunted the prisoner like his shadow. Not even a housemaid could go in to sweep but he was present. Now the man's perpetual presence was intolerable to Monsieur Maurice. He had borne all else with patience, but this last ...
— Monsieur Maurice • Amelia B. Edwards


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