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 Translation for 'warning bell' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   a warning bell | warning bells
SYNO tocsin | warning bell
viðvörunarbjalla {kv}warning bell
Partial Matches
viðvörun {kv}warning
vari {k} [viðvörun]warning
áminning {kv}warning
varnaður {k}warning
aðvörun {kv}warning
váboði {k}warning sign
viðvörunarskot {hv}warning shot
viðvörunarskilti {hv}warning sign
samg.
viðvörunarmerki {hv}
warning sign
viðvörunarljós {hv}warning light
viðvörunarmerki {hv}warning signal
varúðarmerking {kv}warning sticker
fyrirvaralaus {adj}without warning
afkomuviðvörun {kv}profit warning
skyndiverkfall {hv}warning strike
veðurfr.
stormviðvörun {kv}
gale warning
viðvörunarljós {hv}warning lamp
viðvörunarþríhyrningur {k}warning triangle
aðvörunarljós {hv}warning light
fyrirvaralaust {adv}without warning
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Usage Examples English
  • Yale’s survey sounded the warning bell for research libraries worldwide, discovering that 86% of the more than 36,500 books in the sample were either brittle or composed of paper with an acidic pH.
  • It only had a single warning bell for approaching trains.
  • Visitors can see trawler and barge motors, a fog warning bell which was formerly located in the estuary of the Risle, surface-supplied diving gear and a reproduction of the radio cabin of a 1960s ship.
  • The Clarksburg High School instructional day runs from the warning bell at 7:40, the class bell at 7:45, and the dismissal bell at 2:30.
  • Some competition rules specify that a speaker must complete his or her speech within 30 seconds either side of the final bell, the warning bell acting only as a warning and not as an indicator that a speaker must stop speaking.

  • There is one grade crossing protected by a pair of crossbucks with flashing lights and a mechanical warning bell (no gates).
  • The Penn Central (formerly New York Central) railway crossing at Gilchrest Road West, just outside Valley Cottage, contained only crossbucks and lacked additional warning hardware, such as flashing lights, crossing gates or a warning bell.
  • A railroad crossing with a flashing traffic signal or wigwag will also typically have a warning bell.
  • while moving over the active 2000 Hz inductor – while the button is pressed a constant audible warning (bell and speech) is raised and the use of the command button is registered on the train recorder.
  • Pringle for the Ministry of Transport, the accident was a SPAD (Signal Passed at Danger) caused by the position of the driver, his misreading of the signal, and his not being able to hear the warning bell owing to the noise of the engine.

  • The origin of the suburb's name is thought to be from a lookout or warning bell on a post or forked tree situated on the hill overlooking Corio Bay and the Moorabool river known as Morongo estate.
  • Paul Yip Siu-fai, director of the Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention at the University of Hong Kong, said that violence should never be condoned, and that someone resorting to "such an extreme and cruel way to hurt others and himself" had "rung a warning bell to society".
  • The roof is topped with a lantern containing the warning bell, to alert the castle inhabitants of impending danger.
  • His wurlitzer also appears on Junior Boys' 2009 song "Hazel" from the album "Begone Dull Care", and Devon Sproule's 2011 song "The Warning Bell" from the album "I Love You, Go Easy".
  • The precise function of the chapel building is disputed with suggestions that it may have been a religious retreat, a chantry for the souls of sailors who had drowned off St Aldhelm's Head or even a lighthouse or warning bell to warn sailors.

  • At that time, the gateman would ring a warning bell and close the gates when the bridge was clear before the watchman ordered the raising of the bridge.
  • Almost immediately, the fire warning light for the number one engine illuminated; however, the fire warning bell never sounded.
  • Published in 1802, it tells the story of a 14th-century attempt by the Abbot of Arbroath ("Aberbrothock") to install a warning bell on Inchcape, a notorious sandstone reef about [...] off the east coast of Scotland.
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