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Bell

/bɛl/

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.

📖 Definitions of "Bell"

noun
  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    The sounding of a bell as a signal.

  3. 3

    A telephone call.

    "I’ll give you a bell later."

  4. 4

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

verb
  1. 1

    To attach a bell to.

    "Who will bell the cat?"

  2. 2

    To shape so that it flares out like a bell.

    "to bell a tube"

  3. 3

    To telephone.

  4. 4

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

    "Hops bell."

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