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Definition bell
Etymology 1
From Middle English belle, from Old English belle (“bell”), from Proto-Germanic *bell?. Cognate with West Frisian belle, bel, Dutch bel, Low German Belle, Bel, Danish bjelde, Swedish bjälla, Norwegian bjelle, Icelandic bjalla.
Noun
bell (plural bells)
- 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.
- 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) A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.).
- 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.
- An instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar, used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.
Verb
bell (third-person singular simple present bells, present participle belling, simple past and past participle belled)
- (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.
Etymology 2
From Middle English bellen, from Old English bellan (“to bellow; make a hollow noise; roar; bark; grunt”), from Proto-Germanic *bellan? (“to sound; roar; bark”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el- (“to sound; roar; bark”). Cognate with Scots bell (“to shout; speak loudly”), Dutch bellen (“to bark”), German Low German bellen (“to ring”), German bellen (“to bark”), Swedish böla (“to low; bellow; roar”).
Verb
bell (third-person singular simple present bells, present participle belling, simple past and past participle belled)
- (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
- (transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
Noun
bell (plural bells)
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