bell /bɛl/
1. a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
synset: bell
2. a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
synset: doorbell, bell, buzzer
3. the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells"
4. (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
synset: bell, ship's_bell
synset: bell, bell_shape, campana
6. a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
synset: Bell, Melville_Bell, Alexander_Melville_Bell
7. English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
synset: Bell, Vanessa_Bell, Vanessa_Stephen
8. United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)
synset: Bell, Alexander_Bell, Alexander_Graham_Bell
9. a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
10. the flared opening of a tubular device
synset: bell
1. attach a bell to; "bell cows"
synset: bell
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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