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bells

/bɛlz/

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noun

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.
The sounding of a bell as a signal.
A telephone call.
"I’ll give you a bell later."
A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.).
Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
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.
An instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar, used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.

To attach a bell to.
"Who will bell the cat?"
To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
"to bell a tube"
To telephone.
To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
"Hops bell."

The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.

Ship's bells; the strokes on a ship's bell, every half hour, to mark the passage of time.
Short for bell-bottoms.

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