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warning

Roget category 668

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.2. Subservience to ends

#668. Warning

noun

warning, early warning, caution, caveatnotice etc. (information) 527premonition, premonishmentprediction etc. 511contraindication, lesson, dehortationadmonition, monitionalarm etc. 669.
handwriting on the wall, mene mene tekel upharsin, red flag, yellow flagfog-signal, foghornsirenmonitor, warning voice, Cassandra, signs of the times, Mother Cary's chickens, stormy petrel, bird of ill omen, gathering clouds, clouds in the horizon, death watch.
watchtower, beacon, signal postlighthouse etc. (indication of locality) 550.
sentinel, sentry, , watch, watchmanwatch and wardwatchdog, bandog, housedogpatrol, patrolman, vedette, picket, bivouac, scout, spy, spialundercover agent, mole, plainclothesmanadvanced guard, rear guardlookout.
cautiousness etc. 864.
monitor, guard camera, radar, AWACS, spy satellite, spy-in-the-sky, U2 plane, spy plane.

verb

warn, cautionforewarn, prewarnadmonish, premonishgive notice, give warning, dehortmenace etc. (threaten) 909put on one's guardsound the alarm etc. 669croak.
beware, waretake warning, take heed at one's perilkeep watch and ward etc. (care) 459.

adjective

warning etc. v. — premonitory, monitory, cautionaryadmonitory, admonitivesematic [Biol.].
warned, forewarned etc. v. — on one's guard etc. (careful) 459, (cautious) 864.

adverb

in terrorem [Lat.] etc. (threat) 909.

interjection

beware!, ware!, take care!, look out!, fore (golf), mind what you are about!, take care what you are about!, mind!,

phrase

ne reveillez pas le chat qui dort [Fr.], don't wake a sleeping catfoenum habet in cornu [Lat.]caveat actorle silence du people est la legon des rois [Fr.]verbum sat sapienti [Lat.], a word to the wise is sufficientun averti en vaut deux [Fr.].

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