bells

Meaning of bells

noun
  1. 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.
  2. The sounding of a bell as a signal.
  3. A telephone call.
    I’ll give you a bell later.
  4. A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
  5. The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
  6. Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
  7. The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
  8. A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.).
  9. Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
  10. 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.
  11. An instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar, used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.
verb
  1. To attach a bell to.
    Who will bell the cat?
  2. To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
    to bell a tube
  3. To telephone.
  4. To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
    Hops bell.

noun

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

verb
  1. To bellow or roar.
  2. To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
noun
  1. Ship's bells; the strokes on a ship's bell, every half hour, to mark the passage of time.
  2. Short for bell-bottoms.

Information about bells

  • The singular form of bells is: bell.
  • Languages ​​in which bells is used:

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Hyphenation of bells

bells

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • bells is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

bells synonyms

Meaning :

campane

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