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bell
I. \ˈbel\ noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English belle, from Old English;akin to Middle Low German belle bell, Old Norse bjalla bell, Old English bellan to roar — more at bellow
1.
a. : a cup-shaped, saucer-shaped, or hollow spherical metallic device that vibrates and gives forth a ringing sound when struck by a clapper or hammer or by a loose ball inside — see chime, gong, sleigh bell
b. : doorbell
< the bell began to chime more frequently — A.R.Foff >
2. : the ringing or sound of a bell as a signal
< school bell >
or summons
< dinner bell >
or warning
< fire bell >
3.
a. : a bell (as of a clock) rung to tell the hour
b. : the stroke of such a bell especially on shipboard — often used in plural
c. : the time so indicated
d. nautical : a half hour — compare watch (see column 3)
e. : a signal to a ship's engine room given originally by striking a bell
f. : the gong sounded at the beginning and end of a round in boxing
4. : a mark of superiority or merit : award, prize — used in such phrases as to bear the bell, to carry away the bell
5. : something having the form of a bell: as
a. : the cup or corolla of a flower
< in a cowslip's bell I lie — Shakespeare >
b. : a hollow inverted vessel (as a diving bell or bell jar)
c. : a bell-shaped organ or part (as the umbrella of a jellyfish or the nectocalyx of a siphonophore)
d. : a small pouch of hairy skin that hangs from the neck of a deer
e. : the part of the capital of a column between the abacus and neck molding; especially : the nearly bell-shaped naked core assumed to exist within the leafage of a Corinthian capital
f. : a flaring mouth (as of a trumpet or other musical wind instrument or of an old firearm)
g. : a bell-shaped cover of metal or glass placed over food in cooking or serving — called also cloche
h. : the cone-shaped part in a bell and hopper
i. : the enlarged end of a section of pipe that receives the spigot end of the adjoining section
j. : the cup-shaped endpiece of a stethoscope that is placed against a body area (as the chest)
6.
a. : a musical percussion instrument consisting of a number of metal bars or tubes of various graded lengths that when struck with a hammer give out tones resembling those of different-sized bells — usually used in plural; called also chimes
b. : glockenspiel
7. bells plural : heel clicks performed in the air in tap dancing
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- with bells on
II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
transitive verb
1. : to put a bell upon : provide with a bell
< camels had got away from them in the dark and … were not belled — Myrtle R. White >
2.
a. : to ring a bell for
< bell the man to come up >
b. : to cause to ring
< the ground, so hard it hurt our brittle feet, belled the iron rakes — Whitney Balliett >
3. : to make bell-mouthed
< bell out the end of a tube >
4. : to cover by a bell or bell jar
< artificial fruit … the stuff your grandmother belled under glass — Walter de la Mare >
intransitive verb
1. : to ring a bell or bells
< trams bell against motors and drays — William Sansom >
2. : to make a sound suggestive of a bell
< a great belling chorus of thrushes — H.E.Bates >
: ring
< his head belling with interrupted sleep — D.C.Peattie >
3.
a. : to take the form of a bell : swell up or puff out into the shape of a bell
< belling sleeves >
< belled flowers >
< skirts inclined to bell at the hemline — Women's Wear Daily >
b. : to develop bells or corollas : blossom
< hops belling at the end of August >
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- bell the cat
III. intransitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English bellen, from Old English bellan — more at bellow
: to make a resonant bellowing or baying sound
< the bobcat … was ahead of the belling hounds — William Faulkner >
: bellow, roar
< the distant belling of the herds of deer — Sacheverell Sitwell >
IV. noun
(-s)
: the noise of one that bells : bellow, roar
< the bell of a stag > |