Bell - Definition
bell
n 1: a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound
when struck
2: a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or
buzzing signal when pushed [syn: doorbell, bell,
buzzer]
3: the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she
heard the distant toll of church bells" [syn: bell, toll]
4: (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. [syn:
bell, ship's bell]
5: the shape of a bell [syn: bell, bell shape, campana]
6: a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
[syn: Bell, Melville Bell, Alexander Melville Bell]
7: English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member
of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961) [syn: Bell, Vanessa
Bell, Vanessa Stephen]
8: United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone
(1847-1922) [syn: Bell, Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham
Bell]
9: a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells
that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral
instrument [syn: chime, bell, gong]
10: the flared opening of a tubular device
v 1: attach a bell to; "bell cows"