bell
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Old English belle; cognate with Dutch bel.
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bell (plural bells)
- An object 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.
- (chiefly British, informal) a telephone call
- I’ll give you a bell later.
- A signal at a school that tells the students when it's time to change classes during the day.
- (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
- The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
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Terms derived from the noun “bell”
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metallic resonating object
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a telephone call
signal at a school
the flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument
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to bell (third-person singular simple present bells, present participle belling, simple past and past participle belled)
- (transitive) To attach a bell to.
- Who will bell the cat?
- (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
- 1824: A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, Oliver Goldsmith — This animal is said to harbour in the place where he resides. When he cries, he is said to bell; the print of his hoof is called the slot; his tail is called the single; his excrement the fumet; his horns are called his head; when simple, the first year they are called broches; the third year, spears; the fourth year, that part which bears the antlers is called the beam, and the little impressions upon its surface, glitters; those which rise from the crust of the beam are called pearls.
- To shape so that flares out like a bell.
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attach a bell to
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bell m. (feminine bella, masculine plural bells, feminine plural belles)
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- Institut d'Estudis Catalans (1995). Diccionari de la llengua catalana (4ta. edició). ISBN 84-412-2477-3.
