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Bell

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Definitions for Bell

noun
a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
noun
a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
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noun
the sound of a bell being struck
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Examples
  1. saved by the bell
  2. she heard the distant toll of church bells
noun
(nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell
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ship's bell
Examples
  1. eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
noun
the shape of a bell
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bell shape campana
noun
a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
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Melville Bell Alexander Melville Bell
noun
English painter
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Vanessa Bell Vanessa Stephen
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  1. sister of Virginia Woolf
  2. prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
noun
United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)
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Alexander Bell Alexander Graham Bell
noun
a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer
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Examples
  1. used as an orchestral instrument
noun
the flared opening of a tubular device
verb
attach a bell to
Examples
  1. bell cows

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