bell

bell is a 4-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 9 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.
2. noun. A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.
3. noun. Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower.
4. noun. That 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.
5. noun. The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.
6. transitive verb. To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat.
7. transitive verb. To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube.
8. intransitive verb. To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.
9. transitive verb. To utter by bellowing.
10. intransitive verb. To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar.
11. noun. a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
12. noun. the flared opening of a tubular device
13. noun. a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument

    Synonyms: chime, gong

14. noun. a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed

    Synonyms: buzzer, doorbell

15. noun. the sound of a bell being struck

    "saved by the bell"

    "she heard the distant toll of church bells"

    Synonyms: toll

16. noun. United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)
17. noun. English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
18. noun. a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
19. noun. the shape of a bell

    Synonyms: campana

20. noun. (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.
21. verb. attach a bell to

    "bell cows"

Synonyms

chime, gong, buzzer, doorbell, toll, campana

Common word forms

bells, belled, belles, belling

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