A siren is a warning device which makes a long, loud noise. Most fire engines, ambulances, and police cars have sirens. It sounds like an air raid siren
An audible device that creates a loud sound to signal an alarm condition from the system An electronic siren combines both a Speaker and a Siren Driver in a self-contained device that operates straight from a power source, usually 12VDC
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"
Some people refer to a woman as a siren when they think that she is attractive to men but dangerous in some way. He depicts her as a siren who has drawn him to his ruin. = femme fatale. In Greek mythology, a creature, half bird and half woman, who lures sailors to their doom with her sweet singing. Homer placed Sirens near the rocks of Scylla; in the Odyssey, Odysseus has his men plug their ears with wax and has himself tied to his ship's mast so he can hear the Sirens' singing without endangering the ship. In one tale of Jason and the Argonauts, Orpheus sings so sweetly that the crew do not listen to the Sirens. According to later legend, the Sirens committed suicide after one or the other of those failures
eel-like aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills an acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning a warning signal that is a loud wailing sound 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
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
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
Any long, slender amphibian of the genus Siren or family Sirenidæ, destitute of hind legs and pelvis, and having permanent external gills as well as lungs
{i} North American salamander; warning device that makes a loud wailing sound; creature that is half-woman and half-bird and sings in order to lure sailors to their deaths (Greek Mythology); dangerously attractive woman, temptress (Slang)