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Bell
Found in thesaurus: signaling device, acoustic device, push, push button, button, sound, unit of time, time unit, curve, curved shape, percussive instrument, percussion instrument, opening, attach
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bell
n.
hollow metal object used to make a ringing sound; ringing sound made by a bell
Bell
n.
family name; Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), American scientist and inventor of the telephone
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Bell
A bell is a simple idiophone percussion instrument. Although bells come in many forms, most are made of metal cast in the shape of a hollow cup, whose sides form a resonator which vibrates in a single tone upon being struck. The strike may be made by a "clapper" or "uvula" suspended within the bell, by a separate mallet or hammer, or—in small bells—by a small loose sphere enclosed within the body of the bell.
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Bell
Noun
1. a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
(synonym) Melville Bell, Alexander Melville Bell
(hypernym) phonetician
2. English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
(synonym) Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Stephen
(hypernym) painter
(member-holonym) Bloomsbury Group
3. United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)
(synonym) Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bell
(hypernym) inventor, discoverer, artificer
bell
Noun
1. a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
(hypernym) acoustic device
(hyponym) church bell
(part-meronym) clapper, tongue
2. a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
(synonym) doorbell, buzzer
(hypernym) push button, push, button
(hyponym) night bell
3. the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells"
(synonym) toll
(hypernym) sound
(hyponym) knell
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
(hypernym) time unit, unit of time
(classification) seafaring, navigation, sailing
5. the shape of a bell
(synonym) bell shape, campana
(hypernym) curve, curved shape
6. a percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes of different lengths that are struck with a hammer
(synonym) chime, gong
(hypernym) percussion instrument, percussive instrument
(hyponym) carillon
7. the flared opening of a tubular device
(hypernym) opening
(part-holonym) wind instrument, wind
Verb
1. attach a bell to; "bell cows"
(hypernym) attach
(derivation) toll
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Bell
n.
Bell, Alexander Bell (1847-1922), 19th-20th century American scientist, inventor of the telephone
bellen
v.
bark, make a dog-like cry; speak harshly and loudly; yip
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Bell
n.
Bell, family name; Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), American scientist and inventor, inventor of the telephone
