Alert

Definition: Alert

Alert

Adjective

1. Very attentive or observant; "an alert and responsive baby is a joy"; "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".

2. Mentally responsive; "an alert mind".

3. Not unconscious; especially having become conscious; "the patient is now awake and alert".

4. (usually followed by `to') showing acute awareness; mentally perceptive; "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".

Noun

1. Condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action: "bombers were put on alert during the crisis".

2. A warning serves to make you more alert to danger.

3. An automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger.

Verb

1. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "alert" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Computing

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

ALERT

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Alert

Activity

Quick, prompt, yare, instant, ready, alert, spry, sharp, smart; fast; (swift); quick as a lamplighter, expeditious; awake, broad awake; go-ahead, live wide-awake; (intelligent).

Astir, stirring; agoing, afoot; on foot; in full swing; eventful; on the alert; (vigilant).

Attention

Adjective: attentive, mindful, observant, regardful; alive to, awake to; observing; Verb: alert, open-eyed; intent on, taken up with, occupied with, engaged in; engrossed in, wrapped in, absorbed, rapt, transfixed, riveted, mesmerized, hypnotized; glued to (the TV); breathless; preoccupied; (inattentive); watchful; (careful); breathless, undistracted, upon the stretch; on the watch; (expectant).

Care

Guarded, on one's guard; on the qui vivre, on the alert, on watch, on the lookout; awake, broad awake, vigilant; watchful, wakeful, wistful; Argus-eyed; wide awake; (intelligent); on the watch for (expectant).

Adjective: careful regardful, heedful; taking care; Verb: particular; prudent; (cautious); considerate; thoughtful; (deliberative); provident; (prepared); alert; (active); sure-footed.

Preparation

In utrumque paratus, semper paratus; on the alert; (vigilant); at one's post.

Crosswords: Alert

Dutch (alert), German (alert), Swedish (alert, lively, open-eyed, watchful, wide awake).

� Nerd alert! (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; writing credit: Mike Myers)

Lord, I'll do anything you ask tomorrow just don't call an alert tonight (Battlestar Galactica; writing credit: Glen A. Larson)

At every waking moment, alert. The gulf between what you are with others and what you are alone (Persona; writing credit: Ingmar Bergman)

Your Neutralness, it's a beige alert! (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

You've always been this alert, Shaughnessy (Gorilla at Large; writing credit: Leonard Praskins; Barney Slater)

Ya listen to the two way alert (Young'n; performing artist: Fabolous)

Patient was alert and unresponsive. (references; author: unknown)

Healthy appearing, decrepit, 69-year-old male, mentally alert but forgetful. (references; author: unknown)

Alert Today - Alive Tomorrow (1956)

24 Hour Alert (1955)

Stay Unhurt Look Alert (1955)

Submarine Alert (1943)

Sexual Predator Alert (2002)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• American Medical Alert Corp.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Alert and Alive : Defusing Anger and Violence in the Workplace (reference)

• Alien Alert! (Jimmy Neutron) (reference)

• Be Alert (reference)

• Be Alert, Be Aware, Have a Plan: The Complete Guide to Protecting Yourself, Your Home, Your Family (reference)

• Command & Conquer Red Alert 2: Prima's Official Strategy Guide (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Airport Alert (reference)

• Alert (reference)

• Alert Texan (reference)

• Business Alert (reference)

• Elis Oasis Survey Alert (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Full Alert (reference)

• Red Alert - Hockeytown 3 - 2002 Stanley Cup Champion Detroit Red Wings (reference)

• Auto Buyer Alert (reference)

• National Geographic's Polar Bear Alert (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Alert Aware Involved (reference)

• Red Alert (reference)

• Red Alert [US] [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• First Alert FAW640 2.4 GHz Mini Wireless Camera and 4" LCD Color Monitor (reference)

• First Alert FAW725 2.4 GHz Wireless Video Surveillance Camera and Receiver (Color) (reference)

• Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 (reference)

• Midland 74200 Digital All Hazard Alert Monitor (reference)

• Sima WX-67Q Emergency Alert Radio with S.A.M.E. Technology (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• FIRST ALERT FCD4 Carbon Monoxide Alarm with Remote Capability (reference)

• Alert Stamping 4215-6GF Portable Quad Box GFCI Shock Stopper (reference)

• Alert Stamping 5000A-30GFCB Cord Reel Trinector Power Block with Circuit Breaker (reference)

• First Alert SA97C Long Life Lithium Power Smoke Alarm (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Figure 48. Lucas sounding machine, invented by Francis Lucas. Lucas began his career laying submarine cable in 1856. He subsequently became chief engineer at the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company. He invented this lightweig t wire-sounding machine in 1878 and first used on the ALERT the same year. This type of machine was used by British hydrographic ships after 1887. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

A missile alert facility, like the one pictured, located 60 miles south of Minot Air Force Base, N.D., burned to the ground Nov. 30. Minot AFB's 91st Space Wing owns the MAF. No one was injured in the blaze and the cause is under investigation. (Courtesy.

Antelopes on alert, Lakeview District. Credit: Terry Spivey.

If you have one of these 100 common medical conditions, Medic Alert could save your life. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Resistant Gonorrhea ALERT!. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Photographed prior to World War I by Edwin Levick, New York City. This craft was leased by the Navy in May 1917 and commissioned as USS Alert (SP-511). Her name was later changed to SP-511. Following World War I service as a patrol boat, she was returned to her owner in late 1918. Credit: NAVY.

A U.S. Navy destroyer lays a smoke screen during a "Red Alert" for air attack, off the Salerno invasion beaches in September 1943. Photographed from the port bridge wing of USS Philadelphia (CL-41). Note manned and ready 20mm and 40mm guns on Philadelphia and elevated fire control radar antenna and 5"/38 guns on the destroyer. Credit: NAVY.

Alert. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S.S. Alert. Credit: Library of Congress.

The plotting room of a big army camp must have alert, intelligent men on the job. It has them, all of which goes to make a truly superior army. Credit: Library of Congress.

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His gallantry was always on the alert.

But alert and healthy natures remember that the sun rose clear

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Health

Stay with the person until he or she is completely alert. (references)

If you suspect that you are having a side effect, alert your physician. (references)

Mucosal ulcerations should alert the cancer team to the risk of systemic infection. (references)

Business

Closed-circuit television (CCTV) systems are in use at choke points like tunnels and bridges, and are used to alert the emergency services to potential blockages or hazards. (references)

Foreign suppliers of all related products and services should be especially alert to opportunities in the ever-changing Argentine telecommunications market with the Liberalization Plan underway. (references)

Children

Burundi

The Government provides elementary education at nominal cost through grade six; however, inequitable distribution of educational resources favors those children in southern and central areas of the country, according to International Alert, an international NGO. (references)

Civil Liberties

Colombia

In late January, RCN prime time journalist and host of RCN top-ranking opinion show La Noche Claudia Gurisatti left the country for 3 months, following an alert from the authorities of a plot to kill her. (references)

Russia

Foreigners visiting the region are forbidden to engage in missionary activity or to preach unless the conduct of missionary activity had been stated in their visas (some groups reportedly sent religious workers on business or tourist visas in order not to alert the authorities to their activities). (references)

Economic History

Indonesia

Trade Leads, Buyer Alert, and AgExport Kit Services: The USDA Washington DC office provides a variety of services to U.S. companies. (references)

New Zealand

The U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) (Wellington) has a comprehensive listing of food importers and distributors as well as their principal contacts, and also offers exporters the AgExport Service buyer alert network to find buyers. (references)

Mexico

Although the vast majority of laws affecting U.S. companies doing business in Mexico will come under federal jurisdiction (e.g. corporate law, international trade regulations, intellectual property protection), companies must be alert to the requirements of state codes when making investments. (references)

Trade

Bahrain

The bonds are flat fees rather than a percentage of the total bid because knowledge about the amount of the bid-bond deposits may alert competitors to each other's bid price. (references)

Mexico

However, exporters also must be alert to the fact that Mexico imposes punitive anti-dumping duties on products from certain countries, particularly footwear and apparel from China. (references)

Travel

Burma

U.S. citizens should stay alert and take precautions to avoid any confrontations that may occur. (references)

Worker Rights

Suriname

In cases where the victims have been able to alert the police, the police have returned them to their country of origin. (references)

United Kingdom

The women are duped into believing that the police are corrupt or abusive and that they will be deported if they alert the authorities. (references)

Poland

An agreement was reached; however, the nurses claimed that most health facilities had not met the provisions of the agreement by year's end and declared a strike alert. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "alert": air alert ♦ airborne alert ♦ alert battery ♦ alert exercise ♦ alert phase ♦ alert service ♦ alert smb. to smth. ♦ alert subunit ♦ alert the troops ♦ alert to ♦ alert to a danger ♦ be alert ♦ be in the alert ♦ be on the alert ♦ general alert ♦ Genetically Engineered Food Alert ♦ give the alert ♦ ground alert ♦ keep on the alert ♦ miscall alert ♦ on the alert ♦ red alert ♦ white alert. Additional references.

Ending with "alert": ever-alert.

Afrikaans

lewendig (adroit, agile, brisk, keen). (various references)

Albanian

alarm (alarm, warning), vigjilent (argus-eyed, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, watchful), i ndritshëm (bright, brilliant, flaming, light, lucid, sheeny, shining, shiny, splendent, starry). (various references)

Arabic 

‏يقظ (awake, awoke, careful, circumspect, jaunty, lively, mindful, napless, observant, on duty, open-eyed, prompt, springy, vigilant, wakeful, wary, watchful, wide awake), ‏محترس (cagey, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, prudent, vigilant, wary), ‏متنبه (awake, awoke, mindful), ‏نشيط (active, adroit, athletic, dapper, driving, energetic, forceful, hustler, jaunty, live wire, lively, proud, robust, sharp, spirited, sprightly, spry, stout, strenuous, vigorous, vivacious), ‏حذر (admonish, advise, alertness, be careful, be wise, beware, cagey, calculating, calculation, canny, care, careful, caution, cautious, cautiousness, chariness, chary, considerate, discreet, discreetness, discretion, exhort, fabian, forewarn, guard, guarded, guarding, heedful, leery, look behind, look out, lookout, mind, on the alert, on the lookout, prudence, prudent, safe, shy, shyness, sound an alarm, suspicious, take care, vigilance, vigilant, wariness, warn, wary, watch, wide awake), ‏إنذار (call up, intimation, notice, notification, prognosis, signalling, ultimatum, warning), ‏رشيق (active, agile, airy, brisk, clever, dapper, facile, fleet, fluent, fluid, graceful, lightsome, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, lively, merry, nimble, nippy, quick, ready, sharp, spry, svelte, swift, willowy, zippy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сигнал за тревога, чевръст (light footed, nimble, prompt, ready, slippy, smart, spry), тревога (agitation, alarm, anxiety, dismay, disquiet, disturbance, flurry, fluster, inquietude, perturbation, trepidation, trouble, uneasiness, unrest, worriment, worry), внимателен (affable, attentive, careful, cautious, circumspect, considerate, delicate, guarded, heedful, intent, nice, precautious, scrupulous, thoughtful, ware, wary, watchful), жив (above ground, active, agile, alive, animate, breezy, brisk, cheerful, dashing, high-colored, high-coloured, jaunty, jazz, jazzy, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mobile, nervous, nimble, organic, peppy, perky, pert, picturesque, pregnant, quick, racy, rattling, round, saucy, sharp, skittish, snappy, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, swinging, vital, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, whippy, zappy, zippy), буден (alive, awake, sleepless, unsleeping, wakeful, waking), бдителен (awake, hawk-eyed, jealous, observant, open-eyed, unsleeping, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, waking, wary, watchful, wide awake), пъргав (active, agile, alive, deft, elastic, lissom, lithesome, lively, nifty, nimble, nippy, pretty, prompt, quick, ready, resilient, sinuous, smart, snappy, spring, spry, versatile, volatile, wanton, warm, whippy, zippy). (various references)

Chinese 

驚動 (alarm, disturb), 遫 (nimble, quick), 警惕 (on guard, to raise one's guard, vigilant), 警� � (alarm, alert signal, warning), 靈 (departed soul, effective, efficacious, intelligence, quick), �'备 (Watchfulness). (various references)

Czech

alarmovat (alarm), vyplašit (alarm, frighten away, rouse, startle, work up), vyhlásit poplach, poplach (alarm, scare, tumult, warning), pohotovost (aptitude, despatch, dispatch, readiness, trim), ostražitý (vigilant, wary, watchful, wide awake), bystrý (acute, astute, bright, discerning, exquisite, keen, keen-witted, nimble, penetrating, perspicacious, quick, quick-witted, sagacious, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart, subtle), bdìlý (unsleeping, vigilant, watchful, wide awake), èilý (active, brisk, forward, spirited, sprightly, spry, swift). (various references)

Danish

livlig (adroit, agile, brisk, keen). (various references)

Dutch

rap (adroit, agile, brisk, keen), levendig (adroit, agile, brisk, keen), kwiek (adroit, agile, brisk, keen), kras (adroit, agile, brisk, keen), druk (adroit, agile, brisk, busy, edition, keen, pressure, print), alert. (various references)

Esperanto

vigla (brisk, keen). (various references)

Faeroese

vakin (adroit, agile, brisk, keen), lívligur (adroit, agile, brisk, keen), kátur (adroit, agile, airy-fairy, brisk, cheerful, frolic, frolicsome, gay, keen, merry, petulant). (various references)

Farsi 

مواظب (Assiduous, Attendant, Attentive, Aware, Careful, Cautious, Heedful, Shy, Tooter, Watchful, Watchman), هوشیار (Astute, Cautious, Conscious, Observant, Sober, Vigilant), گوش بزنگ (Vigilant, Wakeful), زیرک (Acute, Adroit, Agile, Astute, Brilliant, Cagey, Canny, Clever, Cunning, Gash, Keen, Perspicacious, Sagacious, Sharp, Shrewd, Smart, Subtle, Uncanny), اژیرهواءی , اعلام خطر, بحالت اماده باش درامدن یادراوردن . (various references)

Finnish

valpas (vigilant, wakeful, watchful). (various references)

French

alerte (alarm, alertness), vif, alerter (alarm, raise the alarm, sound the alarm). (various references)

German

wach (adroit, agile, awake, brisk, keen, lively, quick, sleepless, up, wake, wakeful, wide awake), aufgeweckt (adroit, agile, alive, aroused, awoken, bright, brisk, keen, lively, quick, sharp, vivacious), alert, Alarm (air-raid warning, alarm, tocsin). (various references)

Greek 

έξυπνοσ (awake, brainy, cagey, cagy, canny, clever, cute, hard-headed, ingenious, intelligent, knowing, parlous, politic, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, spiffy), έτοιμοσ για δράση, σβέλτοσ (dapper, fleet, lissom, lissome, mobile, natty, nifty, nimble, nippy, spry, svelte), συναγερμόσ (rally, tocsin), συναγερμός (alarm), συναγερμική ειδοποίηση (alerting), σε επαγρύπνηση, σε ετοιμότητα, πανέτοιμοσ, άγρυπνοσ (awake, open-eyed, sleepless, wake, wakeful, watchdog, watchfulness), άγρυπνος. (various references)

Hebrew 

מצב �"כון, לעורר (alarm, appeal, contest, excite, infuriate, inspire, instigate, occasion, promote, prompt, spark, spirit, stimulate, stir up), ער� י (aware, pert, sprightly, vigilant, wakeful, watchful, wide awake), ער (awake, vigilant, wakeful), אות אזעק�" (tocsin), אזעק�" (alarm, call up), זריז (adroit, agile, dexterous, mercurial, nimble, quick, spanking, swift), �"זעק�" (call up, summoning). (various references)

Hungarian

légiriadó (air-raid alarm, air-raid alert, air-raid warning), éber (awake, sleepless, to be wide awake, to keep the eyes peeled, unsleeping, vigilant, wakeful, watchful, wide awake). (various references)

Indonesian

tanda (apostrophe, auspice, hallmark, indication, mark, seal, sign, signal, tally, token), sinyal (signal), gancang (quick, spry). (various references)

Italian

allarme (alarm, apprehensiveness, concern, scare, warning). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

待機 (await an opportunity, standby, wait for orders), アモルファス半導�" (a la carte, alarm, alignment, Allah, alliance, amorphous semiconductor, around, Ayatollah). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たいき (atmosphere, await an opportunity, great talent, large container, standby, wait for orders), アラート . (various references)

Korean 

경� 발생. (various references)

Manx

raaue (caution, danger signal, notice, premonition, warning), geyre-inchynagh (quick-witted, sharp-witted), geyre-chooishagh (astute, discriminating, sharp-witted, shrewd, subtle), arreydagh (attentive, caretaker, cautious, circumspect, immigrant). (various references)

Pig Latin

alertay.(various references)

Portuguese

alerta (acock, adroit, agile, alarm, brisk, keen, prompt, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, waking, watchful). (various references)

Romanian

atent (advertent, amiable, attentive, attentively, careful, carefully, close, closely, complaisant, considerate, courteous, curious, deliberately, delicate, heedful, intent, jealous, listening, mindfully, nice, observant, observantly, painstaking, regardful, searching, tender, watchful), alerta, alarmã (alarm, alarum, panic, terror, uneasiness), alarma (alarm, disquiet), vioi (active, animated, breezy, bright, brisk, briskly, cheery, chirpy, crisp, full of beans, gamy, hasty, hoity toity, lightsome, lithe, live, lively, living, mercurial, merry, mettlesome, nimble, nimbly, pleasant, quick-witted, racy, Randy, ready, smart, snappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, spry, vigorous, volatile), vigilent (unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, watchful), treaz (astir, awake, sleepless, slumberless, sober, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, watchful, watching), neadormit (active, attentive, awake, tireless, unwinking, vigilant, watchful), iute (agile, alive, brisk, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleetingly, hasty, hot, hot tempered, lively, mercurial, merry, nippy, peppered, peppery, piquant, pungent, quick, quickly, rapid, rapidly, rattling, sharp, spanking, speedy, spirited, steep, strong, swift, swiftly, trippingly, violent, warm). (various references)

Russian 

тревога (alarm, angst, anxiety, disquiet, disquietude, trepidation, worry), настороженный (watchful), бдительный (Argus-eyed, hawk-eyed, open-eyed, unsleeping, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, waking, ware, watchful, wide awake, wide-awake), предупреждать тревога бдительный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

znak za uzbunu, oprezan (argus-eyed, careful, chary, circumspect, circumspective, deliberate, discreet, measured, vigilant, ware, wary, wide awake), biti oprezan. (various references)

Spanish

alerta (awake, clamp, open-eyed, stand to, watchful), alarma (alarm, hue and cry, scare, warning). (various references)

Swedish

alert (lively, open-eyed, watchful, wide awake), vaken (awake, lively, quick, sharp, wakeful, wakening), livlig (adroit, agile, animate, animated, brisk, bubbly, buckish, high pitched, intense, keen, kittenish, lively, mercurial, mettlesome, nimble, pert, racy, rousing, snappy, vital, vivacious, volatile). (various references)

Turkish

atik (agile, lissom, lissome, nimble, quick, snappy), alârma geçirmek (alarm), alârm (action stations, alarm, alarum), açıkgöz (astute, canny, cunning, fly, heady, hip, knowing, leery, nimble, open-eyed, sharp, shrewd, smart, spry, up and coming, vigilant, wide awake), uyarmak (admonish, advise, advise against, advise smb. of smth., awake, awake smb. to smth., caution, charge, excite, exhort, expostulate, forewarn, give notice, give smb. notice of, give warning, induce, lecture, remonstrate, serve notice, sex up, stimulate, tip, tip off, tip smb. off, tip the wink, warn), uyanık (argus-eyed, astir, awake, aware, canny, conscious, enterprising, fly, guarded, heady, leery, nimble, on the alert, open-eyed, sharp, shrewd, sleepless, smart, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, waking, wary, watchful, wide awake, with it), tetikte olma, tetik (awake, detent, nimble, trigger), tehlike işareti (alarm, danger signal, red flag, tocsin), gözünü açmak (awake, disabuse, disabuse of, disenchant, disillusion, open one's eyes, shake up, undeceive, wake, waken). (various references)

Turkmen 

trewoga (r) (alarm, warning), synзy (sharp, shrewd), howsala (alarm, warning), hьюgдr (vigilant, watchful). (various references)

Ukrainian

стан бойової готовності, спритний (adroit, agile, arch, artful, canny, cunning, deft, dexterous, dodgy, fly, handy, light fingered, light-handed, natty, nifty, nimble, nimble footed, nimble-fingered, pert, politic, practical, shuffling, slick, tactical, whipping, wide awake, zippy), тямущий (adept, capable, comprehensive, cute, dexterous, docile, intelligenced, smart, well-seen, wise), тривога (alarm, anxiety, care, disquiet, tizzy, trepidation, worry), кмітливий (acute, apprehensive, clever, cute, dexterous, grasping, intelligent, nimble, nimble-witted, quick, ready-witted, sagacious), оголошувати тривогу (give the alarm), обережний (canny, careful, cautionary, cautious, chary, circumspect, circumspective, deliberate, discreet, fabian, gingerly, heedful, precautious, tender, up and coming, ware, wary, watchful), насторожений (circumspect, circumspective, listening, prick-eared, wary, watchful), моторний (adroit, agile, dapper, dashing, deft, dexterous, lissome, lithesome, mercurial, motor, nimble, nippy, ready, spry, volant), жвавий (active, agile, airy, alive, alive and kicking, animated, breezy, brisk, canty, chirpy, crisp, dashing, exhilarated, gleg, jaunty, live, living, mobile, nimble, peppy, perky, slippy, sprightly, vivid, whisky, youthful, zippy), проворний (expeditious, limber, smart), привести до стану готовності, попереджувати про небезпеку, пильний (attentive, awake, circumspect, circumspective, dusty, hawk-eyed, open-eyed, sleepless, staring, vigilant, ware, wide awake). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thời gian báo động phòng không sự cảnh giác, tỉnh táo (conscious, flew, fly, wakeful), sự báo nguy sự báo động phòng không, sự báo động (alarm), sự đề phòng (look-out, precaution), nhanh nhẹn (agile, alive, crispy, dapper, spry, tripping), nhanh nhẫu, hoạt bát (bright, chipper, chirpy, dapper, mercurial, quick, spry, up-and-coming, vivacious, volatile), cảnh giác linh lợi. (various references)

Welsh

hoyw (bright, gay, homosexual, lively, spritely), gwyliadwrus (cautious, watchful), esgud (active, quick, swift), effro (awake, vigilant). (various references)

erigere. (various references)

all'erta. (various references)

alerte. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "alert": alerted, alerter, alertest, alerting, alertly, alertness, alertnesses, alerts. (additional references)

Words ending with "alert": hyperalert, overalert. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Alert" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acert, Aclet, Aelst, Aeltc, aert, agert, Ailort, alara, alard, alark, alarp, alat, Alatri, alear, aleat, aleer, aleet, alegret, alent, aler, alere, Alero, alery, alet, Aleta, Aletti, Alexr, alher, alir, Allekto, allers, Allett, Alletti, Allexr, Alnemri, alner, Alor, alorn, Alper, alpert, alred, alreet, altre, aluet, alur, Alzet, aperta, Aperte, aqer, arert, Arlett, asert, Ayler, Balart, Eilert, Elert, Elwert, Gallert, lairt, leert, lert, olert. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: alter, artel, later, ratel, taler.

-1 letter: earl, late, lear, rale, rate, real, tael, tale, tare, teal, tear, tela.

-2 letters: ale, alt, are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, eta, lar, lat, lea, let, rat, ret, tae, tar, tea, tel.

-3 letters: ae, al, ar, at, el, er, et, la, re, ta.

+1 letter: alerts, alters, antler, armlet, artels, cartel, claret, dartle, elater, elytra, estral, falter, halter, labret, laster, lather, latter, learnt, lyrate, palter, plater, ratels, rattle, realty, rectal, relate, rental, retail, retial, retral, salter, slater, staler, stelar, tailer, talers, talker, taller, tergal, thaler, tramel, travel, varlet.

+2 letters: alerted, alerter, alertly, altered, alterer, antlers, apteral, armlets, article, artless, atelier, battler, blaster, blather, blatter, bleater, bloater, brattle, cartels, central, clarets, clatter, crestal, dartled, dartles, delator, dextral, dilater, earthly, elaters, enteral, enthral, estrual, eternal, exalter, falters, flatter, floater, gloater, greatly, halbert, haltere, halters, harslet, irately, labrets, lambert, lamster, lantern, largest, lasters, laterad, lateral, lathers, lathery, lathier, latrine, lazaret, leather, legator, leotard, levator, librate, literal, loather, locater, lyrated, maltier, marlite, martlet, neutral, palters, partlet, peartly, persalt, petrale, peytral, plaiter, planter, plaster, platers, platier, platter, pleater, plectra, prattle, prelate, prolate, psalter, pteryla, ratable, rathole, ratlike, ratline, rattled, rattler, rattles, realest, realist, reality, reallot, realter, realtor, recital, redtail, reflate, refloat, refutal, related, relater, relates, relator, reliant, rentals, replant, replate, reslate, retable, retails, retinal, retrial, saltern, salters, saltier, saltire, saluter, scarlet, slaters, slather, slatier, stabler, stalker, stapler, starlet, startle, stealer, stellar, sternal, tackler, tailers, talkers, talkier, tallier, tangler, tartlet, tattler, tearful, tearily, tegular, teleran, templar, tertial, thalers, thermal, torulae, trachle, trailed, trailer, tramell, tramels, trammel, trample, travels, trawled, trawler, trawley, treacle, treacly, treadle, trehala, trenail, triable, tutelar, uralite, varlets, vaulter, ventral, vestral, waltzer, warstle, wastrel, wrastle.