Noun: bell bel
- A hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
"The school bell rang to signal the end of class"
- A push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
"The visitor pressed the bell and waited patiently";
- doorbell, buzzer
- The sound of a bell being struck
"saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells";
- toll
- (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
"The ship's bell rang six times, indicating it was 3:00 or 7:00";
- ship's bell
- The shape of a bell
"The flower had a distinctive bell shape";
- bell shape, campana
- A percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
"The bell added a magical quality to the composition";
- chime, gong
- The flared opening of a tubular device
"The bell of the trumpet gleamed in the spotlight"
- Attach a bell to
"bell cows"
- Shape to flare out like a bell
"The skirt bells at the bottom, creating a graceful silhouette"
- Scottish-born American inventor best known for inventing the telephone and founding the Bell Telephone Company (1847-1922)
- Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bell
- A phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
- Melville Bell, Alexander Melville Bell
- English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
- Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Stephen
Derived forms: belling, belled, Bells, bells
Type of: acoustic device, artificer, attach, button, curve, curved shape, discoverer, inventor, opening, painter, percussion instrument, percussive instrument, phonetician, push, push button, signaling device, sound, time unit, unit of time
Part of: Bloomsbury Group, blunderbuss, breath, funnel, wind, wind instrument
Encyclopedia: Bell, Mary