On The Alert

Definition: On The Alert

On The Alert

Adjective

1. Watchful and prepared for action; "bird watchers on the alert for a rare species"; "cops were on the job and caught them red-handed".

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Synonyms: On The Alert

Activity

Astir, stirring; agoing, afoot; on foot; in full swing; eventful; on the alert; (vigilant).

Care

Guarded, on one's guard; on the qui vivre, on the alert, on watch, on the lookout; awake, broad awake, vigilant; watchful, wakeful, wistful; Argus-eyed; wide awake; (intelligent); on the watch for (expectant).

Preparation

In utrumque paratus, semper paratus; on the alert; (vigilant); at one's post.

Crosswords: On The Alert

Figure 48. Lucas sounding machine, invented by Francis Lucas. Lucas began his career laying submarine cable in 1856. He subsequently became chief engineer at the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company. He invented this lightweig t wire-sounding machine in 1878 and first used on the ALERT the same year. This type of machine was used by British hydrographic ships after 1887. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

"Marine Leathernecks of a Forward Air Control Unit for the U.S. Marines with the First Marine Division in Korea scan the skies from a rugged ridge, on the alert for incoming close-air support planes that continue to hammer at the Chinese Red troop concentrations just a few thousand yards beyond in the rugged Korean terrain." Photograph and caption released by Commander Naval Forces, Far East, under date of 1 July 1951. Note backpack radio carried by one Marine, while another wears earphones and holds the microphone. Credit: NAVY.

Accurate workmanship is required to make perfectly uniform shells for the Army. Inspectors are on the alert to reject those which fail to meet requirements. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

His gallantry was always on the alert.

No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "on the alert": be on the alert ♦ keep on the alert. Additional references.

Albanian

në gatishmëri (in fighting trim, in readiness, in store). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حذر (admonish, advise, alert, alertness, be careful, be wise, beware, cagey, calculating, calculation, canny, care, careful, caution, cautious, cautiousness, chariness, chary, considerate, discreet, discreetness, discretion, exhort, fabian, forewarn, guard, guarded, guarding, heedful, leery, look behind, look out, lookout, mind, on the lookout, prudence, prudent, safe, shy, shyness, sound an alarm, suspicious, take care, vigilance, vigilant, wariness, warn, wary, watch, wide awake). (various references)

Bulgarian 

нащрек (acock). (various references)

Czech

být ve střehu (be on one's guard, be on the alert). (various references)

Finnish

varuillaan (on one's guard). (various references)

German

in Alarmbereitschaft. (various references)

Hungarian

ugrásra kész (to be on the alert), készenlétben áll (to be on the alert, to stand by, to wait for, wait for), készen áll (be on the alert, be ready, stand by, to be all set). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

虎視眈眈 (eying covetously, watching vigilantly for an opportunity to prey upon), 虎視眈々 (eying covetously, watching vigilantly for an opportunity to prey upon). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"した�"た�" (eying covetously, watching vigilantly for an opportunity to prey upon). (various references)

Pig Latin

onay ethay alertay.(various references)

Portuguese

vigilante (acock, argus-eyed, awake, hawk-eyed, observant, open-eyed, pop-eyed, unsleeping, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, waking, watchful), precavido, acautelado (aware). (various references)

Romanian

fi cu ochii în patru (be on one's guard, be on the alert, be on the lookout, mind). (various references)

Russian 

настороже (on the qui vive), начеку. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

na oprezu (alert: on the alert, qui vive: on the qui vive, watchful). (various references)

Spanish

estar ojo alerta (be on the alert, be on the qui vive), desasosegar (disquiet, keep on the alert). (various references)

Swedish

vaksam (all eyes, hawk-eyed, open-eared, open-eyed, vigilant, wakeful, watchful), på vakt, på utkik, på alerten (on the jump). (various references)

Turkish

uyanık (alert, argus-eyed, astir, awake, aware, canny, conscious, enterprising, fly, guarded, heady, leery, nimble, open-eyed, sharp, shrewd, sleepless, smart, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, waking, wary, watchful, wide awake, with it), tetikte (argus-eyed, at full cock, aware, guarded, quick on the trigger, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, watchful). (various references)

Turkmen 

ьюerilmek (be on one's guard, be on the alert). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: anethole, leathern, telethon, threaten, tolerant, tolerate.

-3 letters: althorn, anethol, another, athlete, earthen, enteral, enthral, entreat, eternal, ethanol, haltere, hearten, leather, lethean, loather, nettler, rathole, ratteen, teleran, ternate, theater, theatre, thereat, thereon, thereto.

-4 letters: aether, anther, antler, areole, atoner, attorn, elater, enhalo, entera, etalon, ethane, halter, hantle, harlot, hatter, healer, heater, hereat, hereon, hereto.

+2 letters: stenothermal.

+3 letters: northeasterly, untheoretical.

+4 letters: nontheoretical, trihalomethane.

+5 letters: anticholesterol, antitheoretical, etherealization, trihalomethanes.