Noun bell has 10 senses
  1. bell - a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
    --1 is a kind of
    acoustic device; signaling device
    --1 has parts: clapper, tongue; sound bow
    --1 has particulars:
     church bell; cowbell; death knell, death bell; dinner bell; electric bell; fire bell; Liberty Bell; school bell; sheep bell; shop bell; sleigh bell, cascabel; tocsin, warning bell
    Derived form: verb bell1
  2. doorbell, bell, buzzer - a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
    --2 is a kind of push button, push, button
    --2 has particulars: night bell
  3. bell, toll - the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells"
    --3 is a kind of sound
    --3 has particulars: knell; angelus bell, angelus
    Derived form: verb bell1
  4. 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.
    --4 is a kind of time unit, unit of time
  5. bell, bell shape, campana - the shape of a bell
    --5 is a kind of curve, curved shape
  6. Bell, Melville Bell, Alexander Melville Bell - a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
    --6 is a kind of phonetician
  7. Bell, Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Stephen - English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
    --7 is a kind of painter
    --7 is a member of Bloomsbury Group
  8. Bell, Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bell - United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)
    --8 is a kind of inventor, discoverer, artificer
  9. chime, bell, gong - a percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes of different lengths that are struck with a hammer
    --9 is a kind of percussion instrument, percussive instrument
    --9 has particulars: carillon; handbell
  10. bell - the flared opening of a tubular device
    --10 is a kind of
    opening
    --10 is a part of wind instrument, wind; funnel; blunderbuss
,Verb bell has 1 sense
  1. bell - attach a bell to; "bell cows"
    --1 is one way to
    attach
    Derived forms: noun bell3, noun bell1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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