ambulance siren

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• siren — n. 1) to sound, turn on a siren 2) an air raid; ambulance siren 3) a siren goes off, rings, sounds, wails * * * [ saɪ(ə)rən] ambulance siren rings sounds turn on a siren wails a siren goes off an air raid to sound …   Combinatory dictionary

• Siren (disambiguation) — The Sirens are figures in Greek mythology.Siren may also refer to:MusicPerformers* Sirens (band) * Alexander Brandon (b. 1974), American musician * A rock band featuring Kevin Coyneongs* Sirens (song), by Dizzee Rascal * The Siren (song), by… …   Wikipedia

• siren — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French sereine, from Late Latin sirena, from Latin siren, from Greek seirēn Date: 14th century 1. often capitalized any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Ambulance (computer virus) — Ambulance is a file infecting virus and it does not become memory resident. It will only infect one .COM file in any given directory, but will not infect the first one. This means there must be at least two .COM files in the directory for it to… …   Wikipedia

• siren — mid 14c., sea nymph who by her singing lures sailors to their destruction, from O.Fr. sereine, from L.L. Sirena, from L. Siren, from Gk. Seiren [ Odyssey, xii.39 ff.], perhaps lit. binder, from seira cord, rope. Meaning device that makes a… …   Etymology dictionary

• Ambulance — For other uses, see Ambulance (disambiguation) …   Wikipedia

• Siren (noisemaker) — A siren is a loud noise maker. The original version would yield sounds under water [Adolphe Ganot (translator: Edmund Atkinson), Elementary Treatise on Physics: Experimental and Applied , 8th ed. (N.Y., N.Y.: Wm. Wood and Co., 1877), pages 188… …   Wikipedia

• siren — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ approaching ▪ The cars had stopped at the sound of the approaching siren. ▪ distant ▪ blaring, wailing ▪ the blaring sirens o …   Collocations dictionary

• Ambulance — Although you are undoubtedly familiar with the sound of the siren and the sight of the flashing lights of the ambulance, you may not necessarily know that the ambulance began as a walking hospital. The word "ambulance" indeed started… …   Medical dictionary

• siren — si|ren [ˈsaıərən US ˈsaır ] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: sereine, from Latin siren, from Greek seiren;] [Sense: 1; Origin: French sirène, from Old French sereine] 1.) a piece of equipment that makes very loud warning sounds, used on… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Siren Music Festival — The Siren Music Festival (a.k.a. Sirenfest) is an annual summertime outdoors concert held in Brooklyn s Coney Island. It is run by the free arts/politics/current events newspaper The Village Voice , and is completely free of charge. The event… …   Wikipedia