Klaxon vs. Siren — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Klaxon and Siren
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Klaxon
An electric horn or warning hooter
The tug blew its klaxon three times
Siren
Siren A woman regarded as irresistibly alluring.
Klaxon
A loud electric alarm or horn.
Siren
Greek Mythology One of a group of sea nymphs who by their sweet singing lured mariners to destruction on the rocks surrounding their island.
Klaxon
(intransitive) To produce a loud, siren-like wail.
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Siren
A device in which compressed air or steam is driven against a rotating perforated disk to create a loud, often wailing sound as a signal or warning.
Klaxon
A kind of loud horn formerly used on motor vehicles.
Siren
An electronic device producing a similar sound as a signal or warning
A police car siren.
Klaxon
A kind of loud horn formerly used on motor vehicles
Siren
Any of several slender aquatic salamanders of the family Sirenidae of eastern North America, having external gills, small forelimbs, and no hind limbs.
Siren
(Greek mythology) One of a group of nymphs who lured mariners to their death on the rocks.
Siren
One who sings sweetly and charms.
Siren
A dangerously seductive woman.
Siren
(biology) A member of an order of mammals of Sirenia.
Siren
(biology) A member of a genus of aquatic salamanders of the family Sirenidae, commonly used for all species subsumed under the family of Sirenidae.
Siren
(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Hestina.
Siren
A device, either mechanical or electronic, that makes a piercingly loud sound as an alarm or signal, or the sound from such a device (first recorded 1879).
Siren
(music) A musical instrument, one of the few aerophones in the percussion section of the symphony orchestra (patented as Acme Siren in 1895).
Siren
An instrument for demonstrating the laws of beats and combination tones.
Siren
An astrophysical event that can be used for calculating cosmic distances.
Siren
To make a noise with, or as if with, a siren.
Siren
Relating to or like a siren.
Siren
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.
Next where the sirens dwell you plow the seas;Their song is death, and makes destruction please.
Siren
An enticing, dangerous woman.
Siren
Something which is insidious or deceptive.
Consumption is a siren.
Siren
A mermaid.
Siren
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. 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.
Siren
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.
Siren
Of or pertaining to a siren; bewitching, like a siren; fascinating; alluring; as, a siren song.
Siren
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
Siren
A woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive
Siren
A warning signal that is a loud wailing sound
Siren
An acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning
Siren
Eel-like aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills
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