Overview of noun bell

The noun bell has 10 senses

• bell -- (a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck)


• doorbell, bell, buzzer -- (a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed)


• bell, toll -- (the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells")


• bell, ship's 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.)


• bell, bell shape, campana -- (the shape of a bell)


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


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


• Bell, Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bell -- (United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922))


• chime, bell, gong -- (a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument)


• bell -- (the flared opening of a tubular device)

Overview of verb bell

The verb bell has 1 sense

• bell -- (attach a bell to; "bell cows")