Definition of "bell" in 英语

noun

1. (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.

2. An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of their presence.

3. The sounding of a bell as a signal.

4. (chiefly British, informal) A telephone call.

   • I’ll give you a bell later.

5. A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.

6. (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.

7. (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)

8. The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.

9. (computing) The bell character.

10. Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.

11. (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.

12. (Scotland, archaic) A bubble.

13. (British, vulgar, slang) Clipping of bell-end (“stupid or contemptible person”).

verb

1. (transitive) To attach a bell to.

   • Who will bell the cat?

2. (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.

   • to bell a tube

3. (slang, transitive) To telephone.

4. (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.

   • Hops bell.

5. To ring a bell.

verb

1. (intransitive) To bellow or roar.

2. (transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.

noun

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