Definition of Bell shape

1. Noun. The shape of a bell.

Exact synonyms: Bell, Campana
Generic synonyms: Curve, Curved Shape
Derivative terms: Campanular

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bell Shape

bell jar
bell jars
bell magpie
bell metal
bell morel
bell out
bell pepper
bell peppers
bell push
bell ringer
bell ringers
bell ringing
bell rope
bell ropes
bell seat
bell shape (current term)
bell sound
bell stage
bell tent
bell the cat
bell toad
bell tower
bell towers
bella sombra
belladonna
belladonna alkaloid
belladonna alkaloids
belladonna extract
belladonna lily
belladonna ophthalmologic

Literary usage of Bell shape

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"bearing, with a trumpet-shape or bell-shape 5-lobed and more or less ... which has a short st. or trunk, and a broad-limbed bell-shape fl. ..."

2. Cottage Economy: Containing Information Relative to the Brewing of Beer ...by William Cobbett by William Cobbett (1826)
"This is an advantage in the bell-shape ; but, then, the bell-shape, ... This danger approaches from the ends of the cask; and, in the bell-shape, ..."

3. Transactions by North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers., Gerard H. Matthes (1885)
"Height of the part of the chimney under 90 (1-182 ( -985 (3-546 the horizontal gauze, comprising the widening into a bell shape at the base Height of the ..."

4. The Physiology and pathology of the blood: Comprising the Origins, Mode of by Richard Norris (1882)
"... when it is on the point of taking its old bell-shape.) The biconcave meniscus is formed almost of itself, without much pressure, if care is taken that ..."

5. Architecture and Urbanization in Colonial Chiapas, Mexico by Sidney David Markman (1984)
"From the corners of the square abacus, and attached to the inverted truncated bell shape, hang heavy snubbed hook- like arms. These are semicircular in ..."

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