Definitions for Bell

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Bell bell

Spelling: [bel]

IPA: /bɛl/

Bell is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in Bell (bell).

Definitions for Bell

noun

1. a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
2. the stroke or sound of such an instrument:
3. anything in the form of a bell.
4. the large end of a funnel, or the end of a pipe, tube, or any musical wind instrument, when its edge is turned out and enlarged.
5. Architecture. the underlying part of a foliated capital.
6. Nautical. any of the half-hour units of nautical time rung on the bell of a ship. each individual ring of the bell, counted with others to reckon the time: a signal on the telegraph of a large power vessel, made between the navigating officers and the engineer.
7. Zoology. umbrella (def 2).
8. Botany. the bell-shaped corolla of a flower.
9. Metallurgy. a conical lid that seals the top of a blast furnace and lowers to admit a charge.
10. the cry of a rutting stag or hunting dog.
11. Acton [ak-tuh n] /ˈæk tən/ (Show IPA) pen name of Anne Brontë.
12. Alexander Graham, 1847–1922, U.S. scientist, born in Scotland: inventor of the telephone.
13. (Arthur) Clive (Howard) 1881–1964, English critic of literature and art.
14. Currer [kur-er] /ˈkɜr ər/ (Show IPA) pen name of Charlotte Brontë.
15. Ellis, pen name of Emily Brontë.
16. James Thomas ("Cool Papa") 1903–91, U.S. baseball player, a Negro Leagues outfielder noted for his speed.
17. John, 1797–1869, U.S. political leader: Speaker of the House 1834–35.
18. a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.

Idioms

1. bell the cat. cat (def 19).
2. ring a bell, to evoke a memory, especially a vague or partial recollection; remind one of something:
3. ring someone's bell, to provide what is desired; be satisfactory or successful: Slang. to arouse sexually or bring someone to orgasm. Also, ring the bell.
4. saved by the bell, (of a boxer) saved from a knockout by the ringing of a gong signaling the end of a round. (of any person) spared from anticipated trouble by some extraneous event.
5. with bells on, Informal. eagerly; ready to enjoy oneself:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to swell or expand like a bell (often followed by out):
2. to put a bell on.

verb (used without object)

1. to take or have the form of a bell.
2. Botany. to produce bells; be in bell (said of hops when the seed vessels are forming).

verb (used with or without object)

1. to bellow like a stag in rutting time.
2. to bay, as a hunting dog.

Origin of Bell

before 1000; Middle English, Old English belle; cognate with Dutch bel; derivative of bell²

Examples for Bell

“This is important for people in the US,” bell told The Daily Beast in August.

Accordingly he walked up boldly to the door, and rang the bell.

Fifty-two runs since yesterday at this time, and the bell still ringing.

There was no bell in the room, so that was the only way I had of doing it.

The show, bell Hooks argued in Black Looks: Race and Representation, “represents wom[e]n as the object of a phallocentric gaze.”

However, as she feared, The bell Jar appeared to indifferent notices and the launch—which Ted attended—was rather low-key.

There was only one phone left and when it would ring, the bell would echo, oddly, off the walls.

Hester had seen him from the window, and she answered the bell herself.

The bell tower bellows loudly when a little muscle power is put into it.

A bell had been tinkling nearer and nearer on the road ahead.