Bell (proper noun) /bɛl/
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The Bell telephone company (after Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.)
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A proper noun "bell" represents various places in the united states, including a city in california, a town in florida, an unincorporated community in illinois, a census-designated place in oklahoma, a town in wisconsin, and three townships in pennsylvania.
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A village in Eastern Cape, South Africa.
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A village in the City of Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia.
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A rural town in Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
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A municipality in Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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A municipality in Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate.
Bell (noun) /bɛl/
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(US, Canada) a telephone utility; a Baby Bell.
bell (noun) /bɛl/
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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.
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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.
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The sounding of a bell as a signal.
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(chiefly Britain, informal) A telephone call.
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A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
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(music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
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(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)
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The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
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(computing) The bell character.
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Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
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(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.
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The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
bell (verb) /bɛl/
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(transitive) To attach a bell to.
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(transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
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(slang, transitive) To telephone.
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(intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
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(intransitive) To bellow or roar.
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(transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.