bell
IPA: bˈɛɫ
noun
- A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
- An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of their presence.
- The sounding of a bell as a signal.
- (chiefly Britain, informal) A telephone call.
- A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
- (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
- (nautical) Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
- The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
- (computing) The bell character.
- Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
- (architecture) The part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
- (Scotland, archaic) A bubble.
- The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
- A surname of Scottish and northern English origin for a bell ringer, bellmaker, or from someone who lived "at the Bell (inn)."
- The Bell telephone company (after Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.)
- A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.
- A female given name, variant of Belle; mostly used as a middle name in the 19th century.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A city in Los Angeles County, California.
- A town in Gilchrist County, Florida.
- An unincorporated community in Logan County, Illinois.
- A census-designated place in Adair County, Oklahoma.
- A town in Bayfield County, Wisconsin.
- Three townships in Pennsylvania.
- A village in Eastern Cape, South Africa.
- A village in the City of Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia.
- A rural town in Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
- A municipality in Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- A municipality in Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate.
- (US, Canada) a telephone utility; a Baby Bell.
verb
- (transitive) To attach a bell to.
- (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
- (slang, transitive) To telephone.
- (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
- (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
- (transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
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Examples of "bell" in Sentences
- You can skip the costume, but the bell is a must.www. cowbell.com
- October 31 was a good day with a \ "vigorous, buoyant rally from bell to bell\".
- They had to advertise for rags, and what they called the bell-cart went through Boston picking them up.
- For example, when he hears or sees the word bell he sees a series of undulating purple lines, but he also tastes something bitter on his tongue.
- The _passing bell_ is of older date than the canon of our church, which directs "that when any is passing out of this life, a bell shall be tolled, and the minister shall not then slack to do his duty.
- "Venture-backed deals were kind of derailed and this might be what we call a bell cow - a deal that's so steady and so well-done and so impressive it brings other deals to market that were waiting," he said.
- Pulchre's bell_, the great bell of St. Sepulchre's Holborn, close to Newgate, always begins to toll a little before the hour of execution, under the bequest of Richard Dove, who directed that an exhortation should be made to "... prisoners that are within, Who for wickedness and sin are appointed to die, Give ear unto this passing bell."
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