Red Alert (Noun)
Meaning
The highest level of alert when an attack by the enemy seems imminent (or more generally a state of alert resulting from imminent danger).
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.
Examples
- The military base was put on red alert after intelligence suggested an enemy missile was heading straight for it.
- The hospital went into red alert mode when a highly contagious patient was brought into the emergency room.
- A red alert was issued for the entire city as the hurricane made landfall, bringing with it catastrophic winds and rain.
- The astronauts were put on red alert as a malfunction in the spaceship's life support system began to lose oxygen.
- The air raid sirens blared, signaling a red alert, and everyone scrambled to take cover as enemy planes were spotted on the horizon.