#warn
- To warn — To bring critical information to someone's knowledge, to warn, to alert, or to draw attention to an imminent danger, a mistake, or an obligation that must be fulfilled; in an administrative and professional sense, it represents the act of summoning a person or an institution to comply with legal or contractual norms prior to the application of severe disciplinary or penal sanctions.
- Warning — The act of warning, alerting, or notifying and its result; the broadcasting or transmission of a signal, message, or notice drawing attention to a danger, a technical malfunction, or a state of emergency. In technical and meteorological systems, it represents the automated or official alarming protocol meant to trigger safety and civil protection measures.
- Warned — Having received an official notice, a warning, or a caution regarding a danger, a mistake, or a legal or contractual obligation; figuratively, it describes an informed, experienced, and prudent person acting with full knowledge of the facts, being aware of the risks. It also applies to a technical or administrative system placed in a state of alert following the reception of an alarm signal.
- Locally warned — Having undergone the process of local warning or advising; a person who has been advised, notified, alerted, or warned in advance regarding a certain situation within a regional popular dialect. It describes the state of an individual holding protective traditional advice or a prior community warning.
- Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune — A famous adage of French origin that literally translates as 'Bacchus drowned more men than Neptune'. Used as a moral warning, the aphorism employs a powerful mythological antithesis between the god of wine (Bacchus) and the god of the sea (Neptun) to emphasize that alcoholism and excessive drinking cause far more victims, ruined lives, and human tragedies than maritime disasters or natural shipwrecks.