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Catling vs Bell - What's the difference?

catling | bell |

As nouns the difference between catling and bell

is that catling is a little cat; a kitten while bell is 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 or bell can be the bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.

As a verb bell is

to attach a bell to or bell can be to bellow or roar.

catling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A little cat; a kitten.
    • Cat nor catling . — Drummond.
  • catgut; a catgut string
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (surgery) A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife.
  • * 1852 , Joseph Pancoast, A Treatise on Operative Surgery
    • The operator

    Synonyms

    * (knife) catlin

    Related terms

    * kitling (Webster 1913)

    bell

    English

    (wikipedia bell)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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)"
    • HEAR the sledges with the bells —
    Silver bells !
    What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
  • 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 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.}}
  • (chiefly, British, informal) A telephone call.
    • I’ll give you a bell later.
  • 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
    • In a cowslip's bell I lie.
  • (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.
    • 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 on
    See also
    * alarm * buzz * buzzer * carillon * chime * clapper * curfew * dinger * ding-dong * gong * peal * ringer * siren * tintinnabulum * tocsin * toll * vesper

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To attach a bell to.
    • Who will bell the cat?
  • To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
    • to bell a tube
  • (slang) To telephone.
  • * 2006 , Dominic Lavin, Last Seen in Bangkok
    • "Vinny, you tosser, it's Keith. I thought you were back today. I'm in town. Bell us on the mobile.''
  • To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
    • Hops bell .

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m). Cognate with (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bellow or roar.
  • * 1774 , Oliver Goldsmith, A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature :
    • 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 [...].
  • * (rfdate) Rudyard Kipling
    • As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled / Once, twice and again!
  • * 1955 , William Golding, The Inheritors , Faber and Faber 2005, page 128:
    • Then, incredibly, a rutting stag belled by the trunks.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.