Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that announces, especially an electrical signaling device used in hotels or offices to indicate the sources of calls on a switchboard.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which announces; an announcer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.
- noun An indicator (as in a hotel) which designates the room where attendance is wanted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Anything that
announces something - noun A
signalling device that shows which of severalelectrical circuits is active, especially such a device in atelephone switchboard - noun A buzzer in a UK signal box, that sounds when a train activates a
treadle positioned on the track. Provides a warning or announcement of a nearby train.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an indicator that announces which electrical circuit has been active (as on a telephone switchboard)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Just the moment before the head of the locomotive rammed that seemingly immovable barrier at the end of the siding there flashed into the air from Tom's annunciator the code word agreed upon announcing a wreck, and the number of the sector on which the electric locomotive was then running.
Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails Victor [pseud.] Appleton
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Instead of watching the live feed of Prime Minister's Questions on a Wednesday on our "annunciator" i.e.
The Daily Politics Mug Kerron Cross 2007
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"By this time the 'annunciator' had grown to formidable dimensions.
The Mysterious Stranger Mark Twain 1872
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"There's not an annunciator; there's not an alarm window or a computer print out that says, 'I've experienced a core meltdown.'"
IAEA: No Indication of Nuclear Reactor Meltdown in Japan 2011
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"There's not an annunciator; there's not an alarm window or a computer print out that says, 'I've experienced a core meltdown.'"
IAEA: No Indication of Nuclear Reactor Meltdown in Japan 2011
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She wound her way around the cabinets, the plastic-draped consoles with silent dials, some scavenged for use elsewhere, leaving gaping holes in annunciator panels.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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She wound her way around the cabinets, the plastic-draped consoles with silent dials, some scavenged for use elsewhere, leaving gaping holes in annunciator panels.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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The doorknocker for Jasperwood is a commanding annunciator; even a Girl Scout sounds like the Gestapo.
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The doorknocker for Jasperwood is a commanding annunciator; even a Girl Scout sounds like the Gestapo.
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The doorknocker for Jasperwood is a commanding annunciator; even a Girl Scout sounds like the Gestapo.
chained_bear commented on the word annunciator
"When Captain McVay found Lieutenant Orr he was ringing up the engine room on the annunciator and giving the order to stop all engines."
—Thomas Helm, Ordeal by Sea: The Tragedy of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, 1963 (New York: Signet, 2001), 45
November 14, 2008