bell meaning
EN
[bɛl] [-ɛl] 
US WBell
- Bell may refer to:
EN Bell 
- NounPLbellsPREbel-
- 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.
- The sounding of a bell as a signal.
- Referee Steve Smoger was an almost invisible presence in the ring as both men went at it, although he did have a word with Froch when he landed with a shot after the bell at the end of the eighth.
- (chiefly Britain) INF A telephone call.
- I’ll give you a bell later.
- A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
- (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
- (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).
- The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
- (computing) A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.).
- Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
- (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.
- An instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar, used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.
- The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
- 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.
- VerbSGbellsPRbellingPT, PPbelled
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- "Liberty Bell March" is the theme song to "Monty Python's Flying Circus".
- When a rock band began to unhouse its instruments on a riser beneath the bell tower, ....
- England wrapped up a five-wicket victory in the first Test as a stand of 132 between Alastair Cook and Ian Bell saw off an early West Indies charge.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- I hung a "no solicitors" sign by my door. One of these days, I hope they'll get the picture and quit ringing the bell.
- The teacher accepted her tardy slip and allowed her to come into the classroom after the bell.
- 1931 - Intuitively, on Bloody Sunday, the Tans recognized where their trouble lay: the Irish were playing their own game once again. - To Play the Game: An Analysis of Sport, John Bowyer Bell.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of bell in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
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- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "bell" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.