Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that announces, especially an electrical signaling device used in hotels or offices to indicate the sources of calls on a switchboard.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which announces; an announcer. Specifically— An officer of the Greek Church whose duty it was to inform the people of the festivals which were to be celebrated.
Wiktionary
- n. Anything that announces something
- n. A signalling device that shows which of several electrical circuits is active, especially such a device in a telephone switchboard
- n. A buzzer in a UK signal box, that sounds when a train activates a treadle positioned on the track. Provides a warning or announcement of a nearby train.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.
- n. An indicator (as in a hotel) which designates the room where attendance is wanted.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an indicator that announces which electrical circuit has been active (as on a telephone switchboard)
Etymologies
- Latin (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Just the moment before the head of the locomotive rammed that seemingly immovable barrier at the end of the siding there flashed into the air from Tom's annunciator the code word agreed upon announcing a wreck, and the number of the sector on which the electric locomotive was then running.”
Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails
“Instead of watching the live feed of Prime Minister's Questions on a Wednesday on our "annunciator" i.e.”
“By this time the 'annunciator' had grown to formidable dimensions.”
“There's not an annunciator; there's not an alarm window or a computer print out that says, 'I've experienced a core meltdown.”
Voice of America: IAEA: No Indication of Nuclear Reactor Meltdown in Japan
“She wound her way around the cabinets, the plastic-draped consoles with silent dials, some scavenged for use elsewhere, leaving gaping holes in annunciator panels.”
“The doorknocker for Jasperwood is a commanding annunciator; even a Girl Scout sounds like the Gestapo.”
“A red light at the top of the chief pilot's board blinked rapidly and the annunciator panel glowed with a message: MAIN ENGINES: NOT MANNED.”
“And now indeed the office was alive with hustle and bustle, annunciator bells, strident commands.”
“All this was the only reality ... the hustle, the bustle, the annunciator bells, the muted commands, the quick filling of his office with so many awed faces.”
“The synthesized voice over the annunciator instructs us to return to our posts and re-commence our attack.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘annunciator’.
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POL - legislation
US Congress/Senate + Westminster + European Parliament usage
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
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Tweets
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chained_bear "When Captain McVay found Lieutenant Orr he was ringing up the engine room on the annunciator and giving the order to stop all engines."
—Thomas Helm, Ordeal by Sea: The Tragedy of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, 1963 (New York: Signet, 2001), 45 Nov 14, 2008