bell

Noun

• the flared opening of a tubular device

• a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument

• United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone [phone])

• English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)

• a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)

• the shape of a bell

• (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.

• the sound of a bell being struck
  • saved by the bell
    
  • she heard the distant toll of church bells
    

• a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed

• a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck

Verb

• attach a bell to
  • bell cows
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  chime , gong , Bell , Alexander Bell , Alexander Graham Bell , Vanessa Bell , Vanessa Stephen , Melville Bell , Alexander Melville Bell , bell shape , campana , ship's bell , toll , doorbell , buzzer