bell
Nouns
- (n) a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
- (n) a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed buzzer, doorbell,
-
(n) the sound of a bell being struck
- saved by the bell
- she heard the distant toll of church bells
- (n) (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. ship's bell,
- (n) the shape of a bell bell shape, campana,
- (n) a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905) Alexander Melville Bell, Melville Bell,
- (n) English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961) Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Stephen,
- (n) United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922) Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bell,
- (n) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument chime, gong,
- (n) the flared opening of a tubular device
Verbs
-
(v) attach a bell to
- bell cows
Synonyms
buzzer doorbell toll ship's bell bell shape campana Alexander Melville Bell Melville Bell Vanessa Bell Vanessa Stephen Alexander Bell Alexander Graham Bell chime gongWords of close approximity
bead
beak
beam
bean
bear
beat
beau
beck
Beda
Bede
beef
beep
beer
beet
belt
bema
bend
bent
berg
berk
berm
Bern
best
beta
beth
bevy
belladonna
belladonna lily
belladonna plant
bell apple
bell arch
bellarmine
Bellarmino
bella sombra
bellbird
bell book
bellbottom
bell-bottom
bell-bottomed
bellbottom pants
bell-bottoms
bellbottom trousers
bellboy
bell buoy
bell captain
bell cot
bell cote
bell deck
belle
Belleau Wood
belle de nuit
Belle Isle cress
Belle Miriam Silverman
Bellerophon
belles lettres
belles-lettres
belletristic
bellflower
bellflower family
bell founder
bell foundry
bell gable
bell glass
bell heather
bellhop
bellicose
bellicoseness
bellicosity
bellied
belligerence
belligerency
belligerent
belligerently
belling
Bellingham
Bellini
Bellis
Bellis perennis
bell jar
bell-like call
bell magpie
bellman
bell metal
bell morel
Belloc
bellow
bellower
bellowing
bellows
bellows fish
bell pepper
bellpull
bell push
bell ringer
bell ringing
bell seat
bell shape
bell-shaped
bell-shaped curve
bells of Ireland
bell tent
bell the cat
bell toad
bell tower
bellwether
bellwort
belly
bellyache
bellyacher
bellyband
bellybutton
belly button
belly dance
belly dancer
belly dancing
belly flop
belly-flop
belly flopper
bellyful
bellying
belly-land
bellylaugh
belly laugh
bellyless
belly out
belly-up