Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bell

10 senses of bell

Sense 1
bell -- (a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck)
       => acoustic device -- (a device for amplifying or transmitting sound)
       => signaling device -- (a device used to send signals)

Sense 2
doorbell, bell, buzzer -- (a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed)
       => push button, push, button -- (an electrical switch operated by pressing; "the elevator was operated by push buttons"; "the push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk")

Sense 3
bell, toll -- (the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells")
       => sound -- (the sudden occurrence of an audible event; "the sound awakened them")

Sense 4
bell, ship's bell -- ((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.)
       => time unit, unit of time -- (a unit for measuring time periods)

Sense 5
bell, bell shape, campana -- (the shape of a bell)
       => curve, curved shape -- (the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes)

Sense 6
Bell, Melville Bell, Alexander Melville Bell -- (a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905))
       INSTANCE OF=> phonetician -- (a specialist in phonetics)

Sense 7
Bell, Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Stephen -- (English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961))
       INSTANCE OF=> painter -- (an artist who paints)

Sense 8
Bell, Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bell -- (United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922))
       INSTANCE OF=> inventor, discoverer, artificer -- (someone who is the first to think of or make something)

Sense 9
chime, bell, gong -- (a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument)
       => percussion instrument, percussive instrument -- (a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another)

Sense 10
bell -- (the flared opening of a tubular device)
       => opening -- (a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made; "they left a small opening for the cat at the bottom of the door")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb bell

1 sense of bell

Sense 1
bell -- (attach a bell to; "bell cows")
       => attach -- (cause to be attached)