Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A statement telling of or an indication providing evidence of impending danger, difficulty, or misfortune.
- noun Advice to be cautious.
- noun A cautionary or deterrent example.
- adjective Acting or serving to warn.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In biology, serving as a menace to enemies; of threatening aspect: somewhat specially used of a strikingly conspicuous coloration. See the quotation.
- noun Notice beforehand of the consequences that will probably follow continuance in some particular course; admonitory advice to do or to abstain from doing something, as in reference to approaching a probable danger.
- noun That which warns, or serves to warn or admonish.
- noun Heed; the lesson taught by or to be learned from a caution given.
- noun Previous notice: as, a short warning.
- noun A summons; a call; a bidding.
- noun A notice given to terminate a business relation, as that of master and servant, employer and employee, landlord and tenant; a notice to quit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Previous notice.
- noun Caution against danger, or against faults or evil practices which incur danger; admonition; monition.
- adjective Giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing.
- adjective (Horol.) a piece or wheel which produces a sound shortly before the clock strikes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
warn . - noun The action of the verb
warn ; an instance of warning someone. - noun Something spoken or written that is intended to warn.
- interjection Used to warn of danger in signs and notices.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective serving to warn
- noun notification of something, usually in advance
- noun a message informing of danger
- noun cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness)
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"Without putting this issue to rest, and with the label warning as it currently reads, we believe payers in the U.S. will have ammunition to disadvantage Brilinta, especially knowing that U.S. generic Plavix will launch in May 2012," Anderson said yesterday in a note to investors.
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His tattooed chest heaved as he stalked toward her, his expression warning her to take a step back.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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His tattooed chest heaved as he stalked toward her, his expression warning her to take a step back.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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In 2000, Congress enacted legislation eliminating the label warning.
Bracing for the Fake Sugar Rush Anne Marie Chaker 2012
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The fund manager, who made his name warning about Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc's LEHMQ.PK financial health before the investment bank's collapse, accused Ballmer on Wednesday evening of being stuck in the past, launching the sharpest attack yet by a high-profile investor against the company's leadership.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Because of the potential risk for death or severe birth defects to a fetus, the drug will be packaged with a label warning, and doctors will not prescribe it to women who are pregnant, the agency said.
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The fund manager, who made his name warning about Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc's LEHMQ.PK financial health before the investment bank's collapse, accused Ballmer on Wednesday evening of being stuck in the past, launching the sharpest attack yet by a high-profile investor against the company's leadership.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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The plaintiffs claim the label warning should have been improved earlier and remains inadequate.
Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $700,000 Over Flawed Levaquin Warning - Bloomberg 2010
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Inez Tenenbaum, chair of the CPSC, explained today that we have determined that a warning is the best approach.
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Boxed warnings (formerly known as Black Box Warnings) are the highest safety-related warning that medications can have assigned by the Food and Drug Administration. These warnings are intended to bring the consumer’s attention to the major risks of the drug. Medications can have a boxed warning added, taken away, or updated throughout their tenure on the market. Over 400 different medications currently have boxed warnings.[1]Boxed warnings typically apply to a particular drug cohort rather than one specific drug; this is because, commonly, the severe risk is associated with the mechanism of action and its undesired effects on the body, therefore applying to several medications within a class.[2]Go
Box Warning Claire Delong 2023
lampbane commented on the word warning
"She woke in the morning
She knew that her life had passed her by
She called out a warning
Don't ever let life pass you by"
January 8, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word warning
Warning
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to spit.
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickle for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.
But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.
Jenny Joseph
December 30, 2007