Word: Bell
How to pronounce: bel
Noun
Definitions:
1. A hollow object, typically made of metal and having the shape of a deep inverted cup widening at the lip, that sounds a clear musical note when struck, typically by means of a clapper inside.
Example sentences: "The church bells tolled"
2. A bell-shaped object or part of something.
3. A musical instrument consisting of a set of cylindrical metal tubes of different lengths, suspended in a frame and played by being struck with a hammer.
Example sentences: "Working with sampled bells, gongs and prepared piano, he then uses electronic equipment to process this first layer and continues to build up his compositions."
4. (preceded by a numeral) the time as indicated every half hour of a watch by the striking of the ship's bell one to eight times.
Example sentences: "At five bells in the forenoon of June 11"
Verb
Definitions:
1. Provide with a bell or bells; attach a bell or bells to.
Example sentences: "The young men were belling and hobbling the horses before releasing them"
2. Make a ringing sound likened to that of a bell.
3. Spread or flare outward like the lip of a bell.
Example sentences: "Her shirt belled out behind"
Noun
Definitions:
1. The cry of a stag or buck at rutting time.
Example sentences: "Our guides will have you listen to the bell of the stag at the mating season or observe the animals from watch towers."
Intransitive verb
Definitions:
1. (of a stag or buck) make a cry at rutting time.
Example sentences: "The wood in the half-light waking at daybreak to the belling of stags that bursts into barks."
Proper noun
Definitions:
1. A city in southwestern California, southeast of Los Angeles; population 36,657 (est. 2008).
Proper noun
Definitions:
1. Currer, Ellis, and Acton, the pseudonyms used by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, respectively.
Synonyms:
hand bell
little bell
handbell
bellflower
ringing
peal
chime
knell
doorbell
ringer
toll
ring
campana
buzzer
gong
belfry
jingle
tinkle
spigot end
Derivations:
Belle
Bella
belling
belled
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Spanish: Campana
German: Bell
French: Bell
Italian: Bell
Turkish: Çan
