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 Translation for 'warning shot' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   a warning shot | warning shots
viðvörunarskot {hv}warning shot
Partial Matches
aðvörun {kv}warning
viðvörun {kv}warning
áminning {kv}warning
vari {k} [viðvörun]warning
varnaður {k}warning
aðvörunarljós {hv}warning light
varúðarmerking {kv}warning sticker
varúðarmerking {kv}warning marking
váboði {k}warning sign
afkomuviðvörun {kv}profit warning
fyrirvaralaus {adj}without warning
skyndiverkfall {hv}warning strike
veðurfr.
stormviðvörun {kv}
gale warning
viðvörunarbjalla {kv}warning bell
viðvörunarþríhyrningur {k}warning triangle
fyrirvaralaust {adv}without warning
viðvörunarljós {hv}warning light
viðvörunarmerki {hv}warning signal
samg.
viðvörunarmerki {hv}
warning sign
viðvörunarljós {hv}warning lamp
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Usage Examples English
  • When the pirates' intended victim was within range, the Jolly Roger would be raised, often simultaneously with a warning shot.
  • A twenty-one year old insurance salesman and Air Force veteran named Henry Austin confronted the mob and fired a warning shot.
  • January 28, 2010 - Two assaults against officers at Kent Institution. A warning shot was fired.
  • He fires a warning shot into the interior, then joins the stricken yacht.
  • May 1976: A fight broke out between two Muslim groups. They armed themselves with baseball bats and chunks of wood. A warning shot was fired and the guards used tear gas to break the fight up.

  • Burton would later be blamed for his own death, by Governor Deneen, who suggested that Burton incensed the mob when he fired a warning shot, trying to protect his family and property.
  • In military and police contexts, a warning shot is an intentionally harmless artillery shot or gunshot with intent to enact direct compliance and order to a hostile perpetrator or enemy forces.
  • Rama fires a warning shot from his retreat in Suvela.
  • Gina takes his gun and fires a warning shot into the ceiling, which ricochets and accidentally kills Johnny.
  • In French nuclear doctrine it is called a "pre-strategic" weapon, the last-resort "warning shot" prior to a full-scale employment of strategic nuclear weapons.

  • The customs house had two cannons and when the schooners attempted to run the customs port the agent fired a warning shot across the bow of each ship and then six more as an attempt to sink them.
  • Initially two British ships sought to halt the progress of the "Catalpa" and recapture the men, but after receiving a warning shot, Anthony raised the American flag.
  • In 1997 the house was broken into by a deranged fan. Garriott held him off with an Uzi, firing a warning shot while waiting for police to arrive.
  • At 08:20, "Atlantis" fired a warning shot across "Automedon" [...] s bow, and her radio officer at once began transmitting a distress call of "RRRR – Automedon – 0416N" ("RRRR" meant "under attack by armed raider").
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Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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