BELL

Bell

A bell is a simple sound-making device. The bell is a percussion instrument and an idiophone. Its form is usually a hollow, cup-shaped acoustic resonator, which vibrates upon being struck. The striking implement can be a tongue suspended within the bell, known as a clapper, a separate mallet or hammer, or in small bells a small loose sphere enclosed within the body of the bell.

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bell

Noun

  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. The sounding of a bell as a signal.
  3. A telephone call.
    I’ll give you a bell later.
  4. A signal at a school that tells the students when it's time to change classes during the day.
  5. The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
  6. Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
  7. The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
  8. A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.).

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.

Verb

  1. To attach a bell to.
    Who will bell the cat?
  2. To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
    to bell a tube
  3. To telephone.
  4. To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
    Hops bell.

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. To bellow or roar.


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