bell

nom

1. 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.

   HEAR the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells!

   The bell which called the pupils to their lessons can still be seen on the roof.

2. 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. 3

   The sounding of a bell as a signal.

   Referee Steve Smoger was an almost invisible presence in the ring as both men went at it, although he did have a word with Froch when he landed with a shot after the bell at the end of the eighth.

4. 4

   familierA telephone call.

   I’ll give you a bell later.

5. 5

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

6. 6

   The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.

7. 7

   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. 8

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

9. 9

   The bell character.

10. 10

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

    In a cowslip's bell I lie.

11. 11

    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. 12

    The rounded upper part of a jellyfish.

13. 13

    archaïqueA bubble.

    He swam to the place where Mary disappeared but there was neither boil nor gurgle on the water, nor even a bell of departing breath, to mark the place where his beloved had sunk.

14. 14

    Variante de bell-endargotClipping of bell-end (“stupid or contemptible person”).

verbe

1. 1

   To attach a bell to.

   Who will bell the cat?

2. 2

   To shape so that it flares out like a bell.

   to bell a tube

3. 3

   argotTo telephone.

   "Vinny, you tosser, it's Keith. I thought you were back today. I'm in town. Bell us on the mobile.

4. 4

   To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.

   Hops bell.

5. 5

   To ring a bell.

   So that the Euston signalman may be advised of approaching trains as soon as possible, the Camden signalman sets up and transmits the description of each train immediately after it is belled to him.

verbe

1. 1

   To bellow or roar.

   This animal is said to harbour in the place where he resides. When he cries, he is said to bell; the print of his hoof is called the slot; his tail is called the single; his excrement the fumet; his horns are called his head [...].

   As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled / Once, twice and again!

   You acted part so well, went alɬ-fours upon earth / The live-long day, brayed, belled.

   Then, incredibly, a rutting stag belled by the trunks.

2. 2

   To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.

   Their leaders bell their bleating tunes In doleful sound.

nom

1. 1

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

Formes

pluriel

bells

passé

belled

participe passé

belled

participe présent

belling

3ᵉ personne du singulier

bells