BELL Word Analysis

(music) 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.

An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of their presence.

The sounding of a bell as a signal.

(chiefly British, informal) A telephone call.

A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.

(music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.

(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)

The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.

(computing) The bell character.

Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.

(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 capital.

(Scotland, archaic) A bubble.

(British, vulgar, slang) Clipping of bell-end (“stupid or contemptible person”).

(transitive) To attach a bell to.

(transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.

(slang, transitive) To telephone.

(intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.

To ring a bell.

(intransitive) To bellow or roar.

(transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.

The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.