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