BELL
/bɛl/ ► audio Scrabble 6 Words With Friends 9
Definition
- verb attach a bell to.
- noun a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck.
- noun a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed.
— synonyms: doorbell, buzzer
- noun the sound of a bell being struck.
— synonyms: toll
- noun (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell.
— synonyms: ship's_bell
- noun the shape of a bell.
— synonyms: bell_shape, campana
- noun a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905).
— synonyms: Melville_Bell, Alexander_Melville_Bell
- noun English painter.
— synonyms: Vanessa_Bell, Vanessa_Stephen
- noun United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922).
— synonyms: Alexander_Bell, Alexander_Graham_Bell
- noun a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer.
— synonyms: chime, gong
- noun the flared opening of a tubular device.
Examples
- “I’ll give you a bell later.”
- “Who will bell the cat?”
- “to bell a tube”
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