English to English
bell
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noun (n)
- a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck(noun.artifact)source: wordnet30
- the sound of a bell being struck(noun.event)Example:
Saved by the bell.
She heard the distant toll of church bells.
source: wordnet30 - (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.(noun.time)source: wordnet30
- a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)(noun.person)source: wordnet30
- English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)(noun.person)source: wordnet30
- United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)(noun.person)source: wordnet30
- the flared opening of a tubular device(noun.artifact)source: wordnet30
- A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.(noun)source: webster1913
verb (v)
- attach a bell to(verb.contact)Example:
Bell cows.
source: wordnet30 - To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat.(verb)source: webster1913
- To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.(verb)source: webster1913
- To utter by bellowing.(verb)source: webster1913
- To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar.(verb)source: webster1913