Definition of Bell

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Definition of Bell

Bell

A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.

A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.

Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower.

That 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.

The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.

To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat.

To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube.

To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.

To utter by bellowing.

To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar.

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Bell Quotations

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
Ayn Rand

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.
Phyllis Diller

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
Henry Ward Beecher

I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.
Mickey Rourke

One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.
Temple Grandin

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
Ezra Pound

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
Jesse Jackson

I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell.
Ben Affleck

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot

Bell Translations

bell in Danish is klokke
bell in Dutch is klok
bell in French is sonnette, cloche
bell in Italian is campanello, campana
bell in Latin is campana
bell in Norwegian is klokke
bell in Portuguese is sino, campainha
bell in Spanish is timbre, campana
bell in Swedish is klocka, ringklocka, kyrkklocka

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