Bell (cyclecar)
WordNet
noun
(1) A hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
(2) The flared opening of a tubular device
(3) A percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
(4) A push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
(5) The sound of a bell being struck
"Saved by the bell"
"She heard the distant toll of church bells"
(6) United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)
(7) English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
(8) A phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
(9) The shape of a bell
(10) (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.
verb
(11) Attach a bell to
"Bell cows"
WiktionaryText
Proper noun
- A Scottish and northern English surname for a bell ringer, bell maker, or from someone who lived "at the Bell (inn)"
- The Bell telephone company (after Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.)
- occasionally transferred from the surname.
- A female given name, a variant of Belle; mostly used as a middle name in the 19th century.