bell
English
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English belle, from Old English belle (“bell”), from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ. Cognate with West Frisian belle, bel, Dutch bel, Low German Belle, Bel, Danish bjelde, Swedish bjällra, Norwegian bjelle, Icelandic bjalla.
Noun
[edit]bell (plural bells)
- (music) 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.
- 1848, Edgar Allan Poe, The Bells:
- HEAR the sledges with the bells —
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
- An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of their presence.
- The sounding of a bell as a signal.
- 2011 December 18, Ben Dirs, “Carl Froch outclassed by dazzling Andre Ward”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- Referee Steve Smoger was an almost invisible presence in the ring as both men went at it, although he did have a word with Froch when he landed with a shot after the bell at the end of the eighth.
- (chiefly British, informal) 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.
- (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
- (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)
- The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
- (computing) The bell character.
- Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
- In a cowslip's bell I lie.
- (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.
- (Scotland, archaic) A bubble.
- 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet:
- He swam to the place where Mary disappeared but there was neither boil nor gurgle on the water, nor even a bell of departing breath, to mark the place where his beloved had sunk.
- (British, vulgar, slang) Clipping of bell-end (“stupid or contemptible person”).
Synonyms
[edit]- (in heraldry): campane
- (rare): tintinnabule
Hyponyms
[edit]Meronyms
[edit]Holonyms
[edit]- (structure housing bells): bell tower, campanile
- (sets of bells): carillon, peal
Coordinate terms
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[edit]- agogo bell
- alarm bell
- alarm-bell
- altar bell
- Angelus bell
- bear away the bell
- bear the bell
- bell animalcule
- bell arch
- Bell Bar
- bell-bearer
- bell-bind
- bellbind
- bellbird
- bell, book and candle
- bell-bottom, bell-bottomed
- bell-bottomed trousers
- bell-bottoms
- bell bottoms
- bell-bottom trousers
- bellbox
- bell boy
- bellboy
- bell buoy
- bell button
- bell captain
- bellcast
- bell character
- bell chord
- bell-collar
- bell cot
- bellcote
- bell cow
- bellcrank
- bell crank
- bell curve
- bell curve god
- bell deck
- belldom
- belled
- bell-end
- bell end
- bell-faced
- bellflower
- bellfounder
- bell-founder
- bell founder
- bellfounding
- bell frog
- bell-gable
- bell gable
- bellgirl
- bell glide
- Bell Green
- bell heather
- bellhop
- bellhopper
- bell hopper
- bell-horse
- bellhouse
- bell housing
- Bell Island
- bellist
- bell jar
- bell lerp
- belllike
- bell-like
- bell lyra
- bell lyre
- bellmaker
- bellmaking
- bellman
- bell metal
- bell miner (Manorina melanophrys)
- bellmouth
- bell-mouthed
- bell pepper
- bellperson
- bell-pull
- bellpull
- bell punch
- bell push
- bellpush
- bell ringer
- bellringing
- bell-ringing
- bell rope
- bells and smells, smells and bells
- bells and whistles
- bell-shaped
- bell sleeve
- bell tent
- bell-tent
- bell the cat
- bell-topper
- bell tower
- bell trap
- bell tree
- bell up
- bell-wether
- bellwether
- bellwoman
- bell work
- bellwort
- bluebell
- calling bell
- Canterbury bells
- Christmas bells
- church bell
- clear as a bell
- coral bells, coralbells, coral-bells (Heuchera)
- cow bell
- cowbell
- da bell
- dead bell
- death bell
- dinner bell
- diving bell
- diving-bell
- diving bell spider
- division bell
- door-bell
- doorbell
- dressing-bell
- dumb-bell
- dumbbell
- engine bell
- firebell
- fog bell
- forebell
- give someone a bell
- handbell
- harebell (Campanula rotundifolia)
- hawkbell
- heather-bell
- hell's bells
- horse-bell
- jingle bell
- joy bell
- joy-bell
- kettlebell
- larum-bell
- leper's bell
- lose the bell
- low-bell
- lowbell
- magnetobell
- market bell
- Mass bell
- merrybell
- mindfulness bell
- minute bell
- monkey's dinner bell
- mort bell
- mountain bell (Darwinia)
- mule bell
- Oconee bells
- on a bell
- passing-bell
- passing bell
- peal of bells
- pull the other one, it's got bells on
- ring a bell
- ring of bells
- ring one's bell
- ring someone's bell
- sacring-bell
- sacring bell
- saints' bell
- sance bell
- sanctus bell
- sandbell
- save by the bell
- saved by the bell
- seven bells
- sheep-bell
- ship's bells
- shop-bell
- silverbell
- Six Bells
- sledgebell
- sleighbell
- sleigh bell
- snowbell
- soul bell
- sound as a bell
- sunnybell
- swimming bell
- telephone-bell
- tubular bells
- undern-bell
- unring a bell
- warning bell
- wedding bells
- wind-bell
- windbell
- with bells on
- yellow bells
- you can't unring a bell
Descendants
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See also
[edit]- (study of bells): campanology
- (expert in bells): campanist, campanologist
- (player of bells): bell-ringer, carilloner, carilloneur, carillonist, ringer, tintinnabulary, tintinnabulist
- (playing of bells): bell-ringing, tintinnabulation, tintinnabulism, tintinnation
- (bell-related): campanistic, campanologic, campanarian, tintinnabular, tintinnabular, tintinnabulary, tintinnabulatory, tintinnabulous
- (related to a peal of bells or bell tower): campanilian
- (bell-shaped): bell-shaped, campanal, campaniform, campaniliform, campanular, campanulate, campanulated, campanulous, tintinnabulate
- (containing bells): campaned
- (sounding like a small bell): jingling, tinkling, tintinnabulant, tintinnabulating, tintinnating
Verb
[edit]bell (third-person singular simple present bells, present participle belling, simple past and past participle belled)
- (transitive) To attach a bell to.
- Who will bell the cat?
- (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
- to bell a tube
- (slang, transitive) To telephone.
- 2006, Dominic Lavin, Last Seen in Bangkok:
- "Vinny, you tosser, it's Keith. I thought you were back today. I'm in town. Bell us on the mobile.
- (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
- Hops bell.
Translations
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English bellen, from Old English bellan (“to bellow; make a hollow noise; roar; bark; grunt”), from Proto-Germanic *bellaną (“to sound; roar; bark”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to sound; roar; bark”). Cognate with Scots bell (“to shout; speak loudly”), Dutch bellen (“to ring”), German Low German bellen (“to ring”), German bellen (“to bark”), Swedish böla (“to low; bellow; roar”).
Verb
[edit]bell (third-person singular simple present bells, present participle belling, simple past and past participle belled)
- (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
- 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature:
- This animal is said to harbour in the place where he resides. When he cries, he is said to bell; the print of his hoof is called the slot; his tail is called the single; his excrement the fumet; his horns are called his head [...].
- 1894 May, Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published June 1894, →OCLC:
- As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled / Once, twice and again!
- 1872, Robert Browning, Fifine at the Fair[2]:
- You acted part so well, went alɬ-fours upon earth / The live-long day, brayed, belled.
- 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, published 2005, page 128:
- Then, incredibly, a rutting stag belled by the trunks.
- (transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
- 1591, Edmund Spenser, Astrophel:
- Their leaders bell their bleating tunes In doleful sound.
Derived terms
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[edit]Noun
[edit]bell (plural bells)
Translations
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin bellus. Compare Occitan bèll, bèu, French beau, Spanish bello.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bell (feminine bella, masculine plural bells, feminine plural belles)
Usage notes
[edit]- Disused in most dialects because of its homophony with vell (“old”), but still frequently found in literary texts.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “bell” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “bell”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “bell” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “bell” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Chinese
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]bell
Derived terms
[edit]- bell開/bell开 (Cantonese)
- 鬆bell bell/松bell bell (Cantonese)
References
[edit]- Bolton, Kingsley, Hutton, Christopher (2005) A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang: The Language of Hong Kong Movies, Street Gangs and City Life, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 19
German
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Verb
[edit]bell
Maltese
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b-l-l |
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Etymology
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[edit]Verb
[edit]bell (imperfect jbell, past participle miblul)
- to dip (immerse something shortly or partly into a liquid)
Conjugation
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1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
perfect | m | bellejt | bellejt | bell | bellejna | bellejtu | bellew | |
f | bellet | |||||||
imperfect | m | nbell | tbell | jbell | nbellu | tbellu | jbellu | |
f | tbell | |||||||
imperative | bell | bellu |
Old English
[edit]Noun
[edit]bell f
- Alternative form of belle
Welsh
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[edit]- IPA(key): /bɛɬ/
- (South Wales, also) IPA(key): /beːɬ/
Adjective
[edit]bell
- Soft mutation of pell.
Mutation
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