| Bell | |
| 1. n. (US, Canada) a telephone utility; a Baby Bell. | |
| 2. n. 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. | |
| 3. n. The sounding of a bell as a signal. | |
| 4. n. (chiefly British, informal) A telephone call. | |
| I’ll give you a bell later. | |
| 5. n. A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending. | |
| 6. n. (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument. | |
| 7. n. (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) | |
| 8. n. The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot. | |
| 9. n. (computing) A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.). | |
| 10. n. Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower. | |
| 11. n. (architecture) The 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 capi | |
| 12. n. An instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar, used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence. | |
| 13. v. To attach a bell to. | |
| Who will bell the cat? | |
| 14. v. To shape so that it flares out like a bell. | |
| to bell a tube | |
| 15. v. (slang) To telephone. | |
| 16. v. (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom. | |
| Hops bell. | |
| 17. v. (intransitive) To bellow or roar. | |
| 18. v. To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth. | |
| 19. n. The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut. | |
