Siren



GRE 蓝宝 Barron 考研

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n.汽笛, 警报器
• ［英］ n.汽笛, 警报器 ( a device for producing a penetrating warning sound)
• ［记］ 原指希腊神话中半人半鸟的女海妖, 以美妙歌声迷住海员, 使船只触礁沉没

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French sereine, from Late Latin sirena, from Latin siren, from Greek seirēn
• Date: 14th century
• 1. often capitalized any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing
• 2.
  • a. a woman who sings with enchanting sweetness
  • b. temptress
  • c. temptation 2
• 3.
  • a. an apparatus producing musical tones especially in acoustical studies by the rapid interruption of a current of air, steam, or fluid by a perforated rotating disk
  • b. a device often electrically operated for producing a penetrating warning sound <an ambulance siren><an air-raid siren>
• 4. \［New Latin, from Latin\］ either of two North American eel-shaped amphibians that constitute a genus (Siren) and have small forelimbs but neither hind legs nor pelvis and have permanent external gills as well as lungs

II. adjective

• Date: 1568
• resembling that of a siren ; enticing

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