alert

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- The alert will not work on SSL traffic.

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Quick take

condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action; "bombers were put on alert during the crisis"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of alert gathered in one view.

noun

condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action; "bombers were put on alert during the crisis"

noun

a warning serves to make you more alert to danger

noun

an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for alert.

noun

condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action; "bombers were put on alert during the crisis"

noun

a warning serves to make you more alert to danger

noun

an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger

verb

warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness; "The empty house alarmed him"; "We alerted the new neighbors to the high rate of burglaries"

adjective

engaged in or accustomed to close observation; "caught by a couple of alert cops"; "alert enough to spot the opportunity when it came"; "constantly alert and vigilant, like a sentinel on duty"

adjective

quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze"

See also: brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy

adjective

mentally perceptive and responsive;"an alert mind"; "alert to the problems"; "alive to what is going on"; "awake to the dangers of her situation"; "was now awake to the reality of his predicament"

Example sentences

- The alert will not work on SSL traffic.

- The alert may not reach the account owner.

It's also easy to tell what a machine's role is when you get an alert.

I find myself fairly alert a few minutes after I wake up and I can start my day.

Even smaller for people who are sitting at the computer when they see the alert, not driving on a freeway.

Another charge is that they didn't tune their fraud alert levels in a manner requested by the government.

From the section of the iOS HIG about writing alert copy:> Avoid using you, your, me, and my as much as possible.

Also, they publish formal advisories to alert the public.

I was very interested and impressed by the quality of the reasoning, but it was quite hard to stay alert and focused.

We also have a service database that maps hostnames to tags/roles and those tags appear along-side alerts so you can tell right away which service is affected.

So how else could Homakov convince them otherwise other than pricking a high-profile dev group?What if Homakov managed to alert the Github team, and they managed to fix it quietly?

If they are, export them into a well formatted file on the desktop, and give the user an alert through that highly touted new alert system, and give them a link to the app store that searches for rss readers that can receive the exported file.