Meaning of bell | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
2. a telephone utility; a Baby Bell.
   Canada, US
3. The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
4. A surname of Scottish and northern English origin for a bell ringer, bellmaker, or from someone who lived "at the Bell (inn)."
   countable, uncountable
5. The Bell telephone company (after Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.)
   countable, uncountable
6. An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of their presence.
7. To assume the form of a bell; flare.
8. A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.
   countable, uncountable
9. The sounding of a bell as a signal.
10. To perform a daring act.
11. A female given name, variant of Belle; mostly used as a middle name in the 19th century.
    countable, uncountable
12. A telephone call.
    British, informal
13. The bellowing or baying cry of certain animals, such as a deer in rut or a beagle on the hunt.
14. A number of places in the United States:
    countable, uncountable
15. A city in Los Angeles County, California.
    countable, uncountable
16. A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
17. To utter long, deep, resonant sounds; bellow.
18. A town in Gilchrist County, Florida.
    countable, uncountable
19. The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
20. Alexander Graham, 1847–1922, U.S. scientist, born in Scotland: inventor of the telephone.
21. An unincorporated community in Logan County, Illinois.
    countable, uncountable
22. Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
23. A hollow metal musical instrument, usually cup-shaped with a flared opening, that emits a metallic tone when struck.
24. A census-designated place in Adair County, Oklahoma.
    countable, uncountable
25. The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
26. Something resembling such an instrument in shape or sound, as:a. The round, flared opening of a wind instrument at the opposite end from the mouthpiece.
27. A town in Bayfield County, Wisconsin.
    countable, uncountable
28. The bell character.
29. Nautical a. A stroke on a hollow metal instrument to mark the hour.
    Nautical
30. Three townships in Pennsylvania.
    countable, uncountable
31. Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
32. To put a bell on.
33. A village in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
    countable, uncountable
34. 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.
35. To cause to flare like a bell.
36. A village in the City of Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia.
    countable, uncountable
37. The rounded upper part of a jellyfish.
38. A rural town in Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
    countable, uncountable
39. A bubble.
    Scotland, archaic
40. A municipality of Mayen-Koblenz district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
    countable, uncountable
41. Clipping of bell-end (“stupid or contemptible person”).
    British, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang, vulgar
42. A municipality of Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district, Rhineland-Palatinate.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“HEAR the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells!”

“The bell which called the pupils to their lessons can still be seen on the roof.”

“Referee Steve Smoger was an almost invisible presence in the ring as both men went at it, although he did have a word with Froch when he landed with a shot after the bell at the end of the eighth.”

“I’ll give you a bell later.”

“In a cowslip's bell I lie.”

“He swam to the place where Mary disappeared but there was neither boil nor gurgle on the water, nor even a bell of departing breath, to mark the place where his beloved had sunk.”

““As far as I’m concerned, wives come and go, but Weezers are forever. And if Rivers [Cuomo] doesn’t realize that, then maybe he just doesn’t understand what being a Weezer is all about.” At press time, an increasingly frustrated Bell had reportedly announced plans to split off from the group and pursue projects as a solo Weezer.”

“Here, Isabel, here is the good gentleman’s handkerchief; keep it for him now, till he comes to see little Bell again.”

“[…] I found that her Christian name was Isabella, which they shortened into Bell, and that the name of the deceased non-commissioned officer was Tott. Being the kind of neat little woman it was natural to make a toy of—I never saw a woman so like a toy in my life—she had got the plaything name of Belltott. In short, she had no other name on the island.”

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