Definition of Alert

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Definition of Alert
	Alert Watchful; vigilant; active in vigilance. Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity. An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning. Related Definitions: Active, Alarm, Also, An, Attack, Brisk, Bugle, Celerity, From, Give, In, Moving, Nimble, Or, Real, Sound, Sudden, Threatened, To, Vigilance, Vigilant, Warning, Watchful, With

Alert Quotations

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.
Sheldon Adelson

I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.
Chuck Yeager

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.
Hideki Tojo

In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.
David Hackworth

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
Horace

The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.
Georges Jacques Danton

When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.
Kirstie Alley

But clearly an economy that's growing and expanding like this one - and it certainly is doing that with high GDP output, employment numbers strong, capacity utilization strong - that's an environment in which the Fed needs to continually be alert to early signs of inflation.
John W. Snow

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.
Jerzy Kosinski

Alert Translations

alert in Afrikaans is lewendig
alert in Danish is livlig
alert in Dutch is kwiek, druk, kras, levendig, rap
alert in French is alarme, vif
alert in German is Alarmruf, Warnton
alert in Italian is allarme
alert in Portuguese is alerta
alert in Spanish is alerta
alert in Swedish is vaken, alert

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