Bell - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed (syn: buzzer, doorbell)
- the sound of a bell being struck (syn: toll)
she heard the distant toll of church bells
- the shape of a bell
- a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
- English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
- United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)
- a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument (syn: chime, gong)
- the flared opening of a tubular device
verb
Extra examples
He must bell the tubes out a little.
He rang the bell and waited for someone to answer the door.
She walked up the path and rang the door bell.
The bell went and everyone rushed out of the classroom.
In a cowslip's bell I lie. (W. Shakespeare)
You can go when the bell rings.
At the specified time, we rang the bell.
The dog responded to the stimulus of the ringing bell.
Ring the bell when you arrive and someone will buzz you into the building.
Last weekend we scrimmaged against Bell High.
He tinkled a small bell.
The loud bell on the clock broke in upon his dreams.
The bell called to dinner.
The great bell fetches us in.
He just knew the bell of the church from the organ.
Word forms
singular: bell
plural: bells
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