Word Finder - siren

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One of a group of nymphs who lured mariners to their death on the rocks.

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One who sings sweetly and charms.

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A dangerously seductive woman.

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A member of an order of mammals of Sirenia (first attested in French in Dominique Bouhours, Les entretiens d'Ariste et d'Eugène, 1671).

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A member of a genus of aquatic salamanders of the family Sirenidae (originally introduced by Linnaeus, 1766, for a genus of his reptiles), commonly used for all species subsumed under the family of Sirenidae.

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Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Hestina.

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A device, either mechanical or electronic, that makes a piercingly loud sound as an alarm or signal, or the sound from such a device (first recorded 1879).

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A musical instrument, one of the few aerophones in the percussion section of the symphony orchestra (patented as Acme Siren in 1895).

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An instrument for demonstrating the laws of beats and combination tones.

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An astrophysical event that can be used for calculating cosmic distances.

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To make a noise with, or as if with, a siren.

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Relating to or like a siren.

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• bewitching
• enchanting
• enticing
• sirenic

I hope he turned the lights and siren on!

A police car raced by with its siren screaming.

Even the ambulance siren was hard to hear.

He listened for the siren but heard only his Jeep, and twice, the scrapes of his underside as he bottomed out on protruding stone.

The siren must have been one of them.

I won't volunteer I heard a siren, but if I'm pressed, I won't deny it either.

I think now that he knows you were on the mountain and you suspect something about the vodka, he realizes you heard the siren so he's setting it up to look like it was me, not him, who chased Billy.

If he could only be sure it wasn't Lydia who'd chased Billy Langstrom down the mountain, siren screaming, to his rolling, crushing death.

Gabriel stopped in front of her, his heat and nearness like a subtle siren song that tried to lure her closer.

The vibrograph is also well suited for the same purpose, and so in an especial manner is Helmholtz's double siren, in which, by continually turning round the upper box, a note is produced by it more or less out of tune with the note formed by the lower chest, according as the handle is moved more or less rapidly, and most audible beats ensue.

The facades are frequently adorned with carvings and inscriptions, one of which records the legend of the capture of a siren in 1403, who lived for some time among the people of Edam, but escaped again to the sea.

The heavy swell made it difficult to get alongside the "Vindictive," and only a few men had got across when the siren sounded the retire.

This vase dates about 250 B.C., and the Siren charms represent her in the same way, but usually mounted on two sea-horses.

Seven ambulance (1990) A clinically white room with smoothly finished walls is filled with the noise of an ambulance siren.

Eerily, the soul tearing sound mutated into the wailing of the warning siren on the building site.

But the threat of imminent destruction was implicit in every warning air raid siren.

A sexy witch is bound to brew up some trouble when she flaunts a sexy cat eye and siren red lips.

Bright siren reds send a come hither vibe, while a deep rich red is provocative and sexy.

It can give you that polished image you're after for the workplace, or can transform you into a sexy siren for a hot date.

It's hard not to be taken for the serious siren when you're wearing this priceless refined number.

They emit either a very loud siren, or voice alert whenever the alarm has been triggered.

By choosing the perfect bottoms to go with it, you can fashion a modest outfit or go for all-out siren - it's all up to you!

Young girls are especially fascinated with mermaids and many desire to dress-up like a siren of the sea beyond Halloween.

In a different century, Pisces would be known as a siren since she can be quite the seductress.

With the reasonable heel height and siren color, you can't go wrong.

Not only does the alarm have a loud, emergency siren sound, but a small propeller leaps from the clock and flies around the room.

Additional goodies include AM/FM and shortwave radio, siren, cell phone charger, weatherband and emergency beacon.

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Soon the place is swarmed with siren screaming representatives of the law enforcement community, and I hear a gunshot!

It was the piercing screech of a siren.

He told of hearing a siren just before the accident and seeing what he thought to be a sheriff's car.

I'm not even sure now the siren came from the same direction.

Just before the accident, I heard a siren and then saw a white car speeding down the mountain.

The siren could be heard before the vehicle was seen, so Carmen pulled over.

The only sound he remembered was ambulance siren on its long journey to the Montrose hospital.

He grabbed her hand and pulled her close, "Dance with me, my leggy Siren."

C. Dumeril; and, in this arrangement, the name Amphibiens is restricted to Proteus and Siren.

This disk is per- Siren.

The siren of C. Cagniard de la Tour is founded on the same principle as the preceding.

In it the fixed and movable plates Do Siren.

The inventor has given to this instrument the name of the many-voiced siren.

Helmholtz's double siren is well calculated for the investigation of the laws of interference of sound.

The conditions assumed in this investigation are probably nearly realized in a harmonium and in a double siren of the form used by Helmholtz, and in these cases there can be no doubt that actual objective tones are produced, for they may be detected by the aid of resonators of the frequency of the tone sought for.

During the short drive to Lydia Larkin's quarters, Dean's brain pounded with the question of the siren that preceded the horrible accident—and his glimpse of a white vehicle.

She'd been a siren, a human whose black heart lured any immortal she encountered into the hands of the Dark One!

Even so, he knew Tim was as vulnerable as any man to the siren song of absolute power.

Emergencies / Fire IN THE event of fire, or other reasons necessitating the evacuation of the building, a siren will sound continuously.

There was, in the old days--before everybody married by machinery--something not altogether unworthy in being a siren, wasn't there?

The carrier signal modulated by the police officers voice or siren control signal is sent over these same wires back to the exchange.

Output trigger may be linked to a text pager or additional siren, and the alarm comes with a comprehensive 3 year guarantee.