Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word BELL

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Definitions of BELL

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. The sounding of a bell as a signal.
3. A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
4. The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
5. Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
6. The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
7. An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.
8. The Bell telephone company (after Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.)
9. (chiefly, British, informal) A telephone call.
10. (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
11. (nautical) Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
12. (computing) The bell character.
13. (architecture) 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.
14. (Scotland, archaic) A bubble.
15. (transitive) To attach a bell to.
16. (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
17. (slang, transitive) To telephone.
18. (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
19. (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
20. (transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
21. A village in the, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia.
22. A rural town in, Western Downs, Queensland, Australia.
23. A surname of Scottish and northern English origin for a bell ringer, bellmaker, or from someone who lived "at the Bell (inn)."
24. A male given name from surnames.
25. A female given name; mostly used as a middle name in the 19th century.
26. A number of places in USA:
27. A village in Eastern Cape, South Africa.
28. A municipality in Mayen-Koblenz,, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
29. A municipality in Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis,, Rhineland-Palatinate.
30. (US, Canada) a telephone utility; a Baby Bell.

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Examples of Using BELL in a Sentence

• Analog Brothers were an experimental hip hop band featuring Tracy "Ice-T" Marrow (Ice Oscillator) on keyboards, drums and vocals, Keith "Kool Keith" Thornton (Keith Korg) on bass, strings and vocals, Marc Live (Marc Moog) on drums, violins and vocals, Christopher "Black Silver" Rodgers (Silver Synth) on synthesizer, lazar bell and vocals, and Rex Colonel "Pimpin' Rex" Doby Jr.
• In 1846, she published a book of poems with her sisters and later two novels, initially under the pen name Acton Bell.
• Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS) was an analog mobile phone system standard originally developed by Bell Labs and later modified in a cooperative effort between Bell Labs and Motorola.
• Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism is a 1981 book by bell hooks titled after Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech.
• Alarm bell, used to alert people of a fire or burglary detected or, as part of a traditional alarm clock, to awaken or remind.
• Bell Labs is an American industrial research and development (R&D) company credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others.
• He led the Large-scale Programming Research department at Bell Labs, served as a professor of computer science at Texas A&M University, and spent over a decade at Morgan Stanley while also being a visiting professor at Columbia University.
• He worked at Bell Labs and contributed to the development of Unix alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.
• De Benneville "Bert" Bell (February 25, 1895 – October 11, 1959) was an American professional football executive and coach.
• Telephone and telegraph services started in Chile in 1879, three years after Alexander Graham Bell, presented his patent for a telephonic system.
• The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell.
• She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, which she published under the male pseudonym Currer Bell.
• DTMF was first developed in the Bell System in the United States, and became known under the trademark Touch-Tone for use in push-button telephones supplied to telephone customers, starting in 1963.
• The ed text editor was one of the first three key elements of the Unix operating system—assembler, editor, and shell—developed by Ken Thompson in August 1969 on a PDP-7 at AT&T Bell Labs.
• She also published a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell with her own poems finding regard as poetic genius.
• The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.
• GTE Corporation, formerly General Telephone & Electronics Corporation (1955–1982), was the largest independent telephone company in the United States during the days of the Bell System.
• While he was in fourth grade, Busey moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he later attended Bell Junior High School, then attended and graduated from Nathan Hale High School.
• Significant changes occurred with the discovery of the New World and the introduction of potatoes, tomatoes, bell peppers and maize, now central to the cuisine, but not introduced in quantity until the 18th century.
• Work on the standard began in 1980 at Bell Labs and was formally standardized in 1988 in the CCITT "Red Book".

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