BELL

bell

(noun) a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck

bell

(noun) the flared opening of a tubular device

chime, bell, gong

(noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument

doorbell, bell, buzzer

(noun) a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed

bell, toll

(noun) the sound of a bell being struck; “saved by the bell”; “she heard the distant toll of church bells”

Bell, Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bell

(noun) United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)

Bell, Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Stephen

(noun) English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)

Bell, Melville Bell, Alexander Melville Bell

(noun) a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)

bell, bell shape, campana

(noun) the shape of a bell

bell, ship's bell

(noun) (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.

bell

(verb) attach a bell to; “bell cows”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Bell (plural Bells)

A surname of Scottish and northern English origin for a bell ringer, bellmaker, or from someone who lived "at the Bell (inn)."

The Bell telephone company (after Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.)

A male given name from surnames, of occasional usage.

A female given name, variant of Belle; mostly used as a middle name in the 19th century.

A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

Noun

Bell (plural Bells)

(US, Canada) a telephone utility; a Baby Bell.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bell is the 106^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 220,599 individuals. Bell is most common among White (61.11%) and Black (32.35%) individuals.

Etymology 1

Noun

bell (plural bells)

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.

The sounding of a bell as a signal.

(chiefly, British, informal) A telephone call.

A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.

(music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.

(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)

The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.

(computing) A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.).

Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.

(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.

An instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar, used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.

Synonyms

• (in heraldry): campane

• (rare): tintinnabule

Hyponyms

• bicycle bell

• bridle-bell

• campane

• campana

• campanel, campanella

• cascabel

• church bell

• codon

• corrigiunculum, corrigiuncula

• crotal

• curfew, curfew-bell

• doorbell

• dinner-bell

• dupla

• handbell

• jingle bell

• nola

• peal

• petasius

• signum, signum bell

• squilla

• tintinnabulum

• tocsin

• vesper, vesper-bell

Meronyms

• (internally suspended tool for striking): clapper, tongue

• (flaring open end): mouth

Holonyms

• (structure housing bells): bell tower, campanile

• (sets of bells): carillon, peal

Coordinate terms

• alarm

• buzz

• buzzer

• chime

• curfew

• dinger

• ding-dong

• gong

• peal

• ringer

• siren

• tocsin

• toll

Verb

bell (third-person singular simple present bells, present participle belling, simple past and past participle belled)

(transitive) To attach a bell to.

(transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.

(slang, transitive) To telephone.

(intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.

Etymology 2

Verb

bell (third-person singular simple present bells, present participle belling, simple past and past participle belled)

(intransitive) To bellow or roar.

(transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.

Noun

bell (plural bells)

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

Source: Wiktionary

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Bell, n. Etym: [AS. belle, fr. bellan to bellow. See Bellow.]

1. A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.

Note: Bells have been made of various metals, but the best have always been, as now, of an alloy of copper and tin. The Liberty Bell, the famous bell of the Philadelphia State House, which rang when the Continental Congress declared the Independence of the United States, in 1776. It had been cast in 1753, and upon it were the words "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land, to all the inhabitants thereof."

2. A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.

3. Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower. "In a cowslip's bell I lie." Shak.

4. (Arch.)

Definition: That 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.

5. pl. (Naut.)

Definition: The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.

Note: On shipboard, time is marked by a bell, which is struck eight times at 4, 8, and 12 o'clock. Half an hour after it has struck "eight bells" it is struck once, and at every succeeding half hour the number of strokes is increased by one, till at the end of the four hours, which constitute a watch, it is struck eight times. To bear away the bell, to win the prize at a race where the prize was a bell; hence, to be superior in something. Fuller.

– To bear the bell, to be the first or leader; -- in allusion to the bellwether or a flock, or the leading animal of a team or drove, when wearing a bell.

– To curse by bell, book, and candle, a solemn form of excommunication used in the Roman Catholic church, the bell being tolled, the book of offices for the purpose being used, and three candles being extinguished with certain ceremonies. Nares.

– To lose the bell, to be worsted in a contest. "In single fight he lost the bell." Fairfax.

– To shake the bells, to move, give notice, or alarm. Shak.

Note: Bell is much used adjectively or in combinations; as, bell clapper; bell foundry; bell hanger; bell-mouthed; bell tower, etc., which, for the most part, are self-explaining. Bell arch (Arch.), an arch of unusual form, following the curve of an ogee.

– Bell cage, or Bell carriage (Arch.), a timber frame constructed to carry one or more large bells.

– Bell cot (Arch.), a small or subsidiary construction, frequently corbeled out from the walls of a structure, and used to contain and support one or more bells.

– Bell deck (Arch.), the floor of a belfry made to serve as a roof to the rooms below.

– Bell founder, one whose occupation it is to found or cast bells.

– Bell foundry, or Bell foundery, a place where bells are founded or cast.

– Bell gable (Arch.), a small gable-shaped construction, pierced with one or more openings, and used to contain bells.

– Bell glass. See Bell jar.

– Bell hanger, a man who hangs or puts up bells.

– Bell pull, a cord, handle, or knob, connecting with a bell or bell wire, and which will ring the bell when pulled. Aytoun.

– Bell punch, a kind of conductor's punch which rings a bell when used.

– Bell ringer, one who rings a bell or bells, esp. one whose business it is to ring a church bell or chime, or a set of musical bells for public entertainment.

– Bell roof (Arch.), a roof shaped according to the general lines of a bell.

– Bell rope, a rope by which a church or other bell is rung.

– Bell tent, a circular conical-topped tent.

– Bell trap, a kind of bell shaped stench trap.

Bell, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Belled; p. pr. & vb. n. Belling.]

Definition: To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat.

2. To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube.

Bell, v. i.

Definition: To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.

Bell, v. t. Etym: [AS. bellan. See Bellow.]

Definition: To utter by bellowing. [Obs.]

Bell, v. i.

Definition: To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar. As loud as belleth wind in hell. Chaucer. The wild buck bells from ferny brake. Sir W. Scott.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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