1 to warn someone of a possibly dangerous situation -- zaalarmować, powiadomić
2 a warning about a possibly dangerous situation -- pogotowie, alarm
a bomb alert
3 to be expecting problems and ready to deal with them -- być w pełnym pogotowiu
A friend alerted me to the need for funds.
The table also alerts readers to passages where the variants are minor enough to be reportable in the critical notes.
Another incident occurred in 1986 that alerted me to the growth of a new and alternative world view and ethos.
The number of parent falsely alerted for every true case found is minimal.
Punctuation delineates rhetorical structure, so that a reader can be explicitly alerted to certain formal contrivances relevant to the communicative significances embodied in a text.
His retreating to her when he has been startled, alerted, slightly hurt, mildly frightened or fatigued seldom elicits her attention.
An additional 21 new participants were recruited to the study in 1991 by alerting area clinics that participants were being sought for the study.
What is called for is a reporting system that monitors all expenditures and alerts the government to potential overruns.
