Siren

['saɪr(ə)n] or ['saɪrən]

Definition

(noun.) eellike aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills.

(noun.) an acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning.

(noun.) a warning signal that is a loud wailing sound.

(noun.) a sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived; 'Odysseus ordered his crew to plug their ears so they would not hear the Siren's fatal song'.

Checker: Selma--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) One of three sea nymphs, -- or, according to some writers, of two, -- said to frequent an island near the coast of Italy, and to sing with such sweetness that they lured mariners to destruction.

(n.) An enticing, dangerous woman.

(n.) Something which is insidious or deceptive.

(n.) A mermaid.

(n.) Any long, slender amphibian of the genus Siren or family Sirenidae, destitute of hind legs and pelvis, and having permanent external gills as well as lungs. They inhabit the swamps, lagoons, and ditches of the Southern United States. The more common species (Siren lacertina) is dull lead-gray in color, and becames two feet long.

(n.) An instrument for producing musical tones and for ascertaining the number of sound waves or vibrations per second which produce a note of a given pitch. The sounds are produced by a perforated rotating disk or disks. A form with two disks operated by steam or highly compressed air is used sounding an alarm to vessels in fog.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a siren; bewitching, like a siren; fascinating; alluring; as, a siren song.

Typist: Manfred

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Tempter, seducer, Circe, bewitching or fascinating woman.[2]. (Zoöl.) Mud iguana.

a. Alluring, seducing, tempting, bewitching, fascinating.

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Definition

n. (Gr. myth.) one of certain sea-nymphs who sat on the shores of an island between Circe's isle and Scylla near the south-western coast of Italy and sang with bewitching sweetness songs that allured the passing sailor to draw near only to meet with death: a fascinating woman any one insidious and deceptive: an instrument which produces musical sounds by introducing a regularly recurring discontinuity into an otherwise steady blast of air: an instrument for demonstrating the laws of beats and combination tones: an eel-like amphibious animal with only one pair of feet inhabiting swamps in the southern states of North America.—adj. pertaining to or like a siren: fascinating.—n. Sirē′nia an order of aquatic mammals now represented by the dugong (Halicore) and the manatee (Manatus).—adj. Sirē′nian.—v.i. Sī′renise to play the siren.

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