Difference between Qui Vive and Alert

QUI VIVE vs ALERT: NOUN

A state of heightened vigilance, especially prior to battle
Who goes there? — the challenge of French sentries addressed to those who approach their posts.
Condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action
A sentry's challenge.

A warning serves to make you more alert to danger
Condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action
An automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
A signal that warns of attack or danger.
An attitude of vigilance; watch; guard: especially in the phrase on or upon the alert, upon the watch; on the lookout; guarding against surprise or danger: as, “the readiness of one on the alert,” Dickens.
An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning.
On the lookout or watch against attack or danger; ready to act.
An alarm.
A notification of higher importance than an advisory.

The challenge of a French sentinel, or patrol; -- used like the English challenge: “Who comes there?”
To be on guard; to be watchful and alert, like a sentinel.
(idiom) (on the qui vive) On the alert; vigilant.

Active in vigilance; watchful; vigilantly attentive.
Moving with celerity; brisk; active; nimble: as, “an alert young fellow,” Addison, Spectator, No. 403.
Lively, agile, quick, prompt, ready, spry.
(idiom) (on the alert) Watchful and prepared for danger, emergency, or opportunity.

Illimitable, Idolatries, Impalpable, Antinomian, Unreason, Sapient, Undogmatic, Rhetoricians, Whiggish, Delusory, Troglodytic, Sophistries, Insensibly, Imperturbable, Alert

Fly, Lidless, Perched, Intelligent, Perked, Alive, Qui vive, Sleepless, Wakeful, Conscious, Aware, Awake, Watchful, Vigilant, Alarm

Illimitable, Idolatries, Impalpable, Antinomian, Unreason, Sapient, Undogmatic, Rhetoricians, Whiggish, Delusory, Troglodytic, Sophistries, Insensibly, Imperturbable, Alert

Fly, Lidless, Perched, Intelligent, Perked, Alive, Qui vive, Sleepless, Wakeful, Conscious, Aware, Awake, Watchful, Vigilant, Alarm

With the exception, however, of capturing some of our cavalry pickets, we had no trouble, though frequent alarms kept us on the qui vive.
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At all times they have to be approached with the greatest caution, as the least thing renders them on the qui vive.
During the day we heard heavy firing, apparently a salute, and we were on the qui vive for news.
Also Qui vive, the challenge of a sentry or of a patrol.
Barfleur, as usual, was on the qui vive for precedence and advantage.

Yahoo, but apparently that only turns off the notification icon and alert but not the new email alert tone.
Sounds for options such as ringtones and alert tones, vibration settings and patterns, and ringer and alert volumes.
The alert component template contains the html for displaying alert messages at the top of the page.
This alert interval overrides the WEF alert interval.
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Using an alert, you are able to inform users about impossibilities, invalid input or anything else that requires an alert.
Be alert and brief your aircrew to be alert.
We have a Citizen Emergency Alert service that allows your county to alert you.
To open a Benefit Alert, click the View Alert link.
CPSC issues alert about care of room humidifiers: Safety alert.