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bell
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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"
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belle
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n 1: a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of
several rivals; "she was the belle of the ball"
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cartel
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n 1: a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit
competition by controlling the production and distribution
of a product or service; "they set up the trust in the hope
of gaining a monopoly" [syn: trust, corporate trust,
combine, cartel]
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cell
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n 1: any small compartment; "the cells of a honeycomb"
2: (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all
organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in
monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants
and animals
3: a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a
chemical reaction [syn: cell, electric cell]
4: a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger
political movement [syn: cell, cadre]
5: a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided
into small sections, each with its own short-range
transmitter/receiver [syn: cellular telephone, cellular
phone, cellphone, cell, mobile phone]
6: small room in which a monk or nun lives [syn: cell,
cubicle]
7: a room where a prisoner is kept [syn: cell, jail cell,
prison cell]
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compel
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v 1: force somebody to do something; "We compel all students to
fill out this form" [syn: compel, oblige, obligate]
2: necessitate or exact; "the water shortage compels
conservation"
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ravel
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n 1: French composer and exponent of Impressionism (1875-1937)
[syn: Ravel, Maurice Ravel]
2: a row of unravelled stitches; "she got a run in her stocking"
[syn: run, ladder, ravel]
v 1: disentangle; "can you unravel the mystery?" [syn: ravel,
unravel, ravel out] [ant: knot, ravel, tangle]
2: tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story" [syn: ravel,
tangle, knot] [ant: ravel, ravel out, unknot,
unpick, unravel, unscramble, untangle]
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cavell
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n 1: English nurse who remained in Brussels after the German
occupation in order to help Allied prisoners escape; was
caught and executed by the Germans (1865-1915) [syn:
Cavell, Edith Cavell, Edith Louisa Cavell]
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cornell
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n 1: United States actress noted for her performances in
Broadway plays (1893-1974) [syn: Cornell, Katherine
Cornell]
2: United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in
the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White)
founded Cornell University (1807-1874) [syn: Cornell, Ezra
Cornell]
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befell
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caravel
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carvel
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