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Bell

noun

1.

A hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck.

2.

A push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed. Synonyms: buzzer, doorbell.

3.

The sound of a bell being struck. Synonym: toll. "She heard the distant toll of church bells"

4.

(nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.. Synonym: ship's bell.

5.

The shape of a bell. Synonyms: bell shape, campana.

6.

A phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905). Synonyms: Alexander Melville Bell, Melville Bell.

7.

English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961). Synonyms: Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Stephen.

8.

United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922). Synonyms: Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bell.

9.

A percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument. Synonyms: chime, gong.

10.

The flared opening of a tubular device.

verb

(past & past part. belled; pres. part. belling)

1.

Attach a bell to.

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— Merton of the Movies • Harry Leon Wilson

... his hand on the bell-pull, the door was opened and a visitor passed out, immediately followed by a coarse-looking person with a large, shaggy head of hair, whom Allston at once took for a domestic. He accordingly enquired if Mr. Abernethy ...

— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals - In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Samuel F. B. Morse

... gave her several hints, and even stopped the class once to explain a point, Irene felt that most of the instruction had been completely over her head. It was with a sense of intense relief that she heard the closing bell ring, and presently filed with the rest of the school into the dining-room for tea. Her place at table was between two girls who utterly ignored her presence, and did not address a single remark to her. Each talked diligently to the neighbor on either side, but poor Irene seemed an insulator ...

— The Jolliest School of All • Angela Brazil

... and then take 1/8 for the echinus and another eighth for the thickness of the abacus on the top of the capital. The horns of the abacus of the capital have to project beyond the greatest width of the bell 2/7, i. e. sevenths of the top of the bell, so 1/7 falls to the projection of each horn. The truncated part of the horns must be as broad as it is high. I leave the rest, that is the ornaments, to the taste ...

— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci

... Morning Chronicle. Writing from that address he says he expects to forward the conclusion of Russell's dinner "by Cooper's company coach, leaving the 'Bush' at half-past six next morning; and by the first Bell's coach on Thursday he will forward the report of the Bath dinner, endorsing the parcel for immediate delivery with extra rewards ...

— The Inns and Taverns of "Pickwick" - With Some Observations on their Other Associations • B.W. Matz

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