Bell vs Bell - What's the difference?
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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.
* 1848 , Edgar Allan Poe, "(The Bells)"
The sounding of a bell as a signal.
* {{quote-news, year=2011
, date=December 18
, author=Ben Dirs
, title=Carl Froch outclassed by dazzling Andre Ward
, work=BBC Sport
(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) A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.).
Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
* Shakespeare
(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.
To attach a bell to.
To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
(slang) To telephone.
* 2006 , Dominic Lavin, Last Seen in Bangkok
To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
To bellow or roar.
* 1774 , Oliver Goldsmith, A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature :
* (rfdate) Rudyard Kipling
* 1955 , William Golding, The Inheritors , Faber and Faber 2005, page 128:
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.
* 1848 , Edgar Allan Poe, "(The Bells)"
The sounding of a bell as a signal.
* {{quote-news, year=2011
, date=December 18
, author=Ben Dirs
, title=Carl Froch outclassed by dazzling Andre Ward
, work=BBC Sport
(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) A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.).
Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
* Shakespeare
(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.
To attach a bell to.
To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
(slang) To telephone.
* 2006 , Dominic Lavin, Last Seen in Bangkok
To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
To bellow or roar.
* 1774 , Oliver Goldsmith, A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature :
* (rfdate) Rudyard Kipling
* 1955 , William Golding, The Inheritors , Faber and Faber 2005, page 128:
In guardiol|lang=oc terms the difference between bell and bell
is that bell is beautiful while bell is beautiful.As adjectives the difference between bell and bell
is that bell is beautiful while bell is beautiful.bell
English
(wikipedia bell)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- HEAR the sledges with the bells —
- Silver bells !
- What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
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- I’ll give you a bell later.
- In a cowslip's bell I lie.
Derived terms
* * bell curve * bellbottoms * bellflower * bell-ringer * bell tower * * bicycle bell * bluebell * church bell * doorbell * handbell * harebell * ring someone's bell * saved by the bell * sound as a bell * with bells onSee also
* alarm * buzz * buzzer * carillon * chime * clapper * curfew * dinger * ding-dong * gong * peal * ringer * siren * tintinnabulum * tocsin * toll * vesperVerb
(en verb)- Who will bell the cat?
- to bell a tube
- "Vinny, you tosser, it's Keith. I thought you were back today. I'm in town. Bell us on the mobile.''
- Hops bell .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m). Cognate with (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- This animal is said to harbour'' in the place where he resides. When he cries, he is said to ''bell'' ; the print of his hoof is called the ''slot''; his tail is called the ''single''; his excrement the ''fumet''; his horns are called his ''head [...].
- As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled / Once, twice and again!
- Then, incredibly, a rutting stag belled by the trunks.
bell
English
(wikipedia bell)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- HEAR the sledges with the bells —
- Silver bells !
- What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
citation, page= , passage=Referee Steve Smoger was an almost invisible presence in the ring as both men went at it, although he did have a word with Froch when he landed with a shot after the bell at the end of the eighth.}}
- I’ll give you a bell later.
- In a cowslip's bell I lie.
Derived terms
* * bell curve * bellbottoms * bellflower * bell-ringer * bell tower * * bicycle bell * bluebell * church bell * doorbell * handbell * harebell * ring someone's bell * saved by the bell * sound as a bell * with bells onSee also
* alarm * buzz * buzzer * carillon * chime * clapper * curfew * dinger * ding-dong * gong * peal * ringer * siren * tintinnabulum * tocsin * toll * vesperVerb
(en verb)- Who will bell the cat?
- to bell a tube
- "Vinny, you tosser, it's Keith. I thought you were back today. I'm in town. Bell us on the mobile.''
- Hops bell .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m). Cognate with (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- This animal is said to harbour'' in the place where he resides. When he cries, he is said to ''bell'' ; the print of his hoof is called the ''slot''; his tail is called the ''single''; his excrement the ''fumet''; his horns are called his ''head [...].
- As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled / Once, twice and again!
- Then, incredibly, a rutting stag belled by the trunks.