Alarm

Definition

alarm /ǝ'lɑ:m/ n ၁။ [U] အထိတ္တလန္႔ျဖစ္ျခင္း။ ထိတ္လန္႔ တုန္လႈပ္ျခင္း။ The news filled me with alarm. ❍ a look of alarm ❍ He jumped up in alarm. ❍ There's no cause for alarm. ၂။ [C usu sing ] ေဘးအႏၲရာယ္၊ အခက္အခဲ စသည္ သတိေပးခ်က္၊ ႏိႈးေဆာ္ခ်က္။ တပ္လွန္႔ျခင္း။ give/sound the alarm ❍ The alarm was raised (eg People told the police) when the couple failed to return to their hotel. ၃။ [C] သတိေပးေခါင္းေလာင္း၊ သံေခ်ာင္းစသည္။ စိတ္မသိုးမသန္႔ျဖစ္ေစရန္ လံႈ႕ေဆာ္မႈ။ set off a burglar/smoke alarm ❍ When he said he wanted to pay me by cheque, alarm bells rang/started ringing (ie I felt suspicious). See also FALSE ALARM, FIRE ALARM ၄။ ALARM CLOCK v လွန္႔သည္။ အထိတ္တလန္႔ ျဖစ္ေစသည္။ I don't want to alarm you, but there's a strange man in your garden. ❏ alarm clock (also alarm ) n ႏိႈးစက္နာရီ။ Set the alarm (clock) for 6 o'clock. ❏ alarmed adj ~ (at/by sth) လန္႔ [ေသာ]။ စိုးရိမ္ [ေသာ]။ By now she was thoroughly alarmed at the idea/prospect of travelling alone. ❍ I'm somewhat alarmed (to hear) that you're planning to leave the company. ❏ alarming adj စိုးရိမ္ဖြယ္ရာ။ ေၾကာက္မက္ဖြယ္ရာ။ an alarming increase in the number of car thefts ❍ The report is most alarming. ❏ alarmingly adv ေၾကာက္ခမန္းလိလိ။ Prices have risen alarmingly. ❏ alarmist n ( derog ) ေသြးလွန္႔ေရးသမား။ ေျခာက္လွန္႔ေရး သမား။ alarmist warnings/forecasts ❍ We mustn't be alarmist.

Examples

1. There was a note of alarm in her voice.
2. [cause for alarm] : She is a little unwell but there is no cause for alarm.
3. [burglar/fire/smoke alarm] : Every new house comes complete with smoke alarms.
4. [set off/trigger an alarm] : The burglars left empty-handed after triggering the alarm.
5. Did you hear my alarm go off this morning?