Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.
- 3noun
Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.
- 6transitive verb
To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat.
- 7transitive verb
To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube.
- 8intransitive verb
To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.
- 9transitive verb
To utter by bellowing.
- 10intransitive verb
To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar.
- 11noun
a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
- 12noun
the flared opening of a tubular device
- 13noun
a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
- 14noun
a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
- 15noun
the sound of a bell being struck
"saved by the bell"
"she heard the distant toll of church bells"
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- 16noun
United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)
- 17noun
English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
- 18noun
a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
- 19noun
the shape of a bell
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- 20noun
(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.
- 21verb
attach a bell to
"bell cows"
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