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▸ noun: An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of their presence.
▸ noun: The sounding of a bell as a signal.
▸ noun: (chiefly British, informal) A telephone call.
▸ noun: A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
▸ noun: (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
▸ noun: (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)
▸ noun: The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
▸ noun: (computing) The bell character.
▸ noun: Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (Scotland, archaic) A bubble.
▸ verb: (transitive) To attach a bell to.
▸ verb: (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
▸ verb: (slang, transitive) To telephone.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
▸ verb: (transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
▸ noun: The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
▸ noun: A surname of Scottish and northern English origin for a bell ringer, bellmaker, or from someone who lived "at the Bell (inn)."
▸ noun: The Bell telephone company (after Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.)
▸ noun: A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.
▸ noun: A female given name, variant of Belle; mostly used as a middle name in the 19th century.
▸ noun: A number of places in the United States:
▸ noun: A city in Los Angeles County, California.
▸ noun: A town in Gilchrist County, Florida.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Logan County, Illinois.
▸ noun: A census-designated place in Adair County, Oklahoma.
▸ noun: A town in Bayfield County, Wisconsin.
▸ noun: Three townships in Pennsylvania.
▸ noun: A village in Eastern Cape, South Africa.
▸ noun: A village in the City of Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia.
▸ noun: A rural town in Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
▸ noun: A municipality of Mayen-Koblenz district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
▸ noun: A municipality of Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district, Rhineland-Palatinate.
▸ noun: (US, Canada) a telephone utility; a Baby Bell.
▸ noun: (British, vulgar, slang) Clipping of bell-end (“stupid or contemptible person”). [(British, Ireland, slang, vulgar) The glans penis.]
Similar:
gong,
chime,
campana,
doorbell,
buzzer,
alexander bell,
Alexander Graham Bell,
bell shape,
ring,
clapper,
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