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Warning   /wˈɔrnɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Warning  n.  
1.
Previous notice. "At a month's warning." "A great journey to take upon so short a warning."
2.
Caution against danger, or against faults or evil practices which incur danger; admonition; monition. "Could warning make the world more just or wise."


verb
Warn  v. t.  (past & past part. warned; pres. part. warning)  
1.
To make ware or aware; to give previous information to; to give notice to; to notify; to admonish; hence, to notify or summon by authority; as, to warn a town meeting; to warn a tenant to quit a house. "Warned of the ensuing fight." "Cornelius the centurion... was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee." "Who is it that hath warned us to the walls?"
2.
To give notice to, of approaching or probable danger or evil; to caution against anything that may prove injurious. "Juturna warns the Daunian chief of Lausus' danger, urging swift relief."
3.
To ward off. (Obs.)


adjective
Warning  adj.  Giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing; as, a warning voice. "That warning timepiece never ceased."
Warning piece, Warning wheel (Horol.), a piece or wheel which produces a sound shortly before the clock strikes.





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"Warning" Quotes from Famous Books



... and once he sang the "Ballad of the Mule-Skinner," with what seemed to both terrified passengers an awful warning of their overthrow: ...
— Judith Of The Plains • Marie Manning
... over—" She did not complete the sentence; instead, as if in a sudden panic over the nearness of unmaidenly revelations, she somewhat breathlessly began all over again: "I guess it must have been a—a warning, or something." ...
— Viola Gwyn • George Barr McCutcheon
... the old church-yard. He dropped off first, and Bessie doffed her gray for sombre habiliments of darker hue. Nor did she long remain behind, loving little soul! leaving her property to Annie Mortimer, and warning her ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 - Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852 • Various
... covert, makes it anything but an easy target. Third and last, it is better to eat than any other of our wild birds, with the possible exception of the golden plover. Taking one consideration with another, then, it is not surprising that the first warning cry of "Woodcock over!" from the beaters should be the signal for a sharp and somewhat erratic fusillade along the line, a salvo which the beaters themselves usually honour by crouching out of harm's way, since ...
— Birds in the Calendar • Frederick G. Aflalo
... "Without a word of warning, he fired two shots. I broke open the door instantly, expecting that he had killed Hilda, but he had ended his ...
— A Tar-Heel Baron • Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton


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