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      bell
      noun
      (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.
      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.
      (chiefly British, informal) A telephone call.
      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.
      (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.
      The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
      The Bell telephone company (after Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.)
      A surname of Scottish and northern English origin for a bell ringer, bellmaker, or from someone who lived "at the Bell (inn)."
      A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.
      A female given name, variant of Belle; mostly used as a middle name in the 19th century.
      (US, Canada) a telephone utility; a Baby Bell.
      A number of places in the United States:
      A city in Los Angeles County, California.
      A town in Gilchrist County, Florida.
      An unincorporated community in Logan County, Illinois.
      A census-designated place in Adair County, Oklahoma.
      A town in Bayfield County, Wisconsin.
      Three townships in Pennsylvania.
      A village in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
      A village in the City of Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia.
      A rural town in Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
      A municipality of Mayen-Koblenz district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
      A municipality of Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district, Rhineland-Palatinate.
      (British, vulgar, slang) Clipping of bell-end (“stupid or contemptible person”). [(UK, Ireland, slang, vulgar) The glans penis.]
      (Scotland, archaic) A bubble.
      verb
      (transitive) To attach a bell to.
      (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
      (slang, transitive) To telephone.
      (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
      To ring a bell.
      (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
      (transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
      Synonyms for bell
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