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Noun bell has 10 senses
- bell - a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
--1 is a kind of acoustic device; signaling device
--1 has parts: clapper, tongue; sound bow
--1 has particulars:
- doorbell, bell, buzzer - a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
--2 is a kind of push button, push, button
--2 has particulars: night bell
- bell, toll - the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells"
--3 is a kind of sound
--3 has particulars: knell; angelus bell, angelus
- 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.
--4 is a kind of time unit, unit of time
- bell, bell shape, campana - the shape of a bell
--5 is a kind of curve, curved shape
- Bell, Melville Bell, Alexander Melville Bell - a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
--6 is a kind of phonetician
- Bell, Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Stephen - English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
--7 is a kind of painter
--7 is a member of Bloomsbury Group
- Bell, Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bell - United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)
--8 is a kind of inventor, discoverer, artificer
- chime, bell, gong - a percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes of different lengths that are struck with a hammer
--9 is a kind of percussion instrument, percussive instrument
--9 has particulars: carillon; handbell
- bell - the flared opening of a tubular device
--10 is a kind of opening
--10 is a part of wind instrument, wind; funnel; blunderbuss
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