Lexic.us

Definition of Bell

1. Verb. Attach a bell to. "Bell cows"

2. Noun. A hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck.

3. Noun. A push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed.

4. Noun. The sound of a bell being struck. "She heard the distant toll of church bells"

5. 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..

6. Noun. The shape of a bell.

7. Noun. A phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905).

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

9. Noun. United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922).

10. Noun. A percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument.

11. Noun. The flared opening of a tubular device.

Definition of Bell

1. n. 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.

2. v. t. To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat.

3. v. i. To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.

4. v. t. To utter by bellowing.

5. v. i. To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar.

Definition of Bell

1. Proper noun. A Scottish and northern English surname for a bell ringer, bellmaker, or from someone who lived "at the Bell (inn)" ¹

2. Proper noun. The Bell telephone company (after (w Alexander Graham Bell), the inventor of the telephone.) ¹

3. Proper noun. (surnames male given name) occasionally transferred from the surname. ¹

4. Proper noun. ''A female given name'', a variant of Belle; mostly used as a middle name in the 19th century. ¹

5. Noun. (US Canada) a telephone utility; a Baby Bell. ¹

6. Noun. 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. ¹

7. Noun. The sounding of a bell as a signal. ¹

8. Noun. (chiefly British informal) A telephone call. ¹

9. Noun. A signal at a school that tells the students when it's time to change classes during the day. ¹

10. Noun. (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument. ¹

11. Noun. (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) ¹

12. Noun. The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot. ¹

13. Verb. (transitive) To attach a bell to. ¹

14. Verb. To shape so that flares out like a bell. ¹

15. Verb. (slang transitive) To telephone. ¹

16. Verb. (intransitive) To bellow or roar. ¹

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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bell

1. to provide with a bell (a ringing device) [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Bell

1. 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. 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." 4. 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. The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated. 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. 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. To lose the bell, to be worsted in a contest. "In single fight he lost the bell." . To shake the bells, to move, give notice, or alarm. 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, 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. Origin: AS. Belle, fr. Bellan to bellow. See Bellow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bell

belittlements belittler belittlers belittles belittling belittlingly belive beliven belives beliving

belk belked belking belkovite belks bell bell-bearer bell-bearers bell-bind bell-bottom

bell-bottom trousers bell-bottomed bell-bottomed trousers bell-bottoms bell-collar bell-crowned bell-ends bell-faced bell-gable

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