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English to English noun
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a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck |  | source: wordnet30
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a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed | | source: wordnet30
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the sound of a bell being struck | | Example: saved by the bell
she heard the distant toll of church bells
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(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. | | source: wordnet30
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the shape of a bell | | source: wordnet30
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a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905) | | source: wordnet30
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English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961) | | source: wordnet30
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United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922) | | source: wordnet30
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a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument | | source: wordnet30
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the flared opening of a tubular device | | source: wordnet30
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A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck. | | source: webster1913
verb
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attach a bell to | | Example: bell cows
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To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat. | | source: webster1913
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To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell. | | source: webster1913
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To utter by bellowing. | | source: webster1913
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To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar. | | source: webster1913
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