buzzer

CEFRB1

/ˈbʌzə/

noun

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Examples

Ziri rang the buzzer and Rima unlocked the door for him.
If you think you know the answer to the question, hit the buzzer as fast as you can.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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In context

Please push the buzzer.
Tom heard the buzzer.
And wants not buzzers to infect his ear / With pestilent speeches of his father's death.

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And wants not buzzers to infect his ear / With pestilent speeches of his father's death.
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), Lon...
... it left, however, a bee at his ear and an itch to transfer the buzzer's attentions and tease his darling; for she had betrayed herself as right good game.
1895, George Meredith, The Amazing Marriage
If a train enters the forward section before its description has been transmitted, a "not described" lamp is illuminated on the transmitter, an alarm buzzer is sounded, and the lamp remains alight until a description has been transmitted.
1955 March, “Train Describers at Euston”, in Railway Magazine, page 170
Her brother is in secret come from France, Feeds on this wonder, keeps himself in clouds And wants not buzzers to infect his ear With pestilent speeches of his father's death.
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]
I flipped my wallet open on her desk and let her look at the buzzer pinned to the flap.
1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 28

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