distress signal

English

Noun

distress signal (plural distress signals)

1. An emergency signal sent by radio (or other means) from a ship or aircraft in distress or danger.
2. An indication of distress.
   • 2020 October 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0-1 Denmark: 'Harry Maguire looked devoid of confidence in Nations League loss'”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     This was a performance from Maguire that was sending out distress signals from pretty much the first whistle. The control was poor, the discipline was worse, even the simplest of tasks - a pass, a clearance - looked an almighty struggle.

Related terms

• mayday

Translations

emergency signal

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
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• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 求救信號 / 求救信号 (qiújiù xìnhào)

• Danish: nødsignal n, alarmsignal n, nødråb n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: hädasignaal
• Finnish: hätämerkki (fi)
• French: signal de détresse m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Notsignal n
• Hungarian: vészjelzés (hu)
• Italian: segnale di pericolo
• Japanese: 救助信号 (kyūjoshingō)
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nødsignal n

  Nynorsk: nødsignal n, naudsignal n

• Polish: wzywanie pomocy n, wzywanie ratunku n
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: сигна́л бе́дствия m (signál bédstvija)
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References

• “distress signal”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.