bell

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.

noun

The sounding of a bell as a signal.

noun

A telephone call.

"I’ll give you a bell later."

noun

A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.

noun

The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.

noun

Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)

noun

The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.

noun

A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.).

noun

Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.

noun

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.

noun

An instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar, used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.

verb

To attach a bell to.

"Who will bell the cat?"

verb

To shape so that it flares out like a bell.

"to bell a tube"

verb

To telephone.

verb

To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.

"Hops bell."

noun

The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.

verb

To bellow or roar.