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Definition of bell

"bell" in the noun sense

1. bell

a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck

2. doorbell, bell, buzzer

a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed

3. bell, toll

the sound of a bell being struck

"saved by the bell"

"she heard the distant toll of church bells"

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.

5. bell, bell shape, campana

the shape of a bell

6. Bell, Melville Bell, Alexander Melville Bell

a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)

7. Bell, Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Stephen

English painter sister of Virginia Woolf prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)

8. Bell, Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bell

United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)

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

10. bell

the flared opening of a tubular device

"bell" in the verb sense

1. bell

attach a bell to

"bell cows"

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Quotations for bell

A cracked bell
Can never sound well. [ Proverb ]

Who shall bell the cat? [ Proverb ]

The bell strikes one.
We take no note of time,
But from its loss,
To give it then a tongue,
Is wise in man. [ Young ]

Bell, thou soundest merrily,
When the bridal party
To the church doth hie!
Bell, thou soundest solemnly,
When, on Sabbath morning,
Fields deserted lie! [ Longfellow ]

God comes to see without a bell. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

As the fool thinks, the bell clinks. [ Proverb ]

But quiet to quick bosoms is a bell. [ Byron ]

He is all there when the bell rings. [ Proverb ]

To the counsel of fools a wooden bell. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The wild bee reels from bough to bough
With his furry coat and his gauzy wing.
Now in a lily cup, and now
Setting a jacinth bell a-swing.
In his wandering. [ Oscar Wilde ]

Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office; and his tongue
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,
Remember'd tolling a departed friend. [ Shakespeare ]

He was born within the sound of Bow-bell. [ Proverb ]

That all-softening, overpowering knell.
The tocsin of the soul - the dinner bell. [ Byron ]

No longer mourn for me when I am dead.
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled. [ William Shakespeare ]

The tocsin of the soul - the dinner bell! [ Byron ]

And the Sabbath bell,
That over wood and wild and mountain dell
Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy
With sounds most musical, most melancholy. [ Samuel Rogers ]

Till taught by pain,
Men really know not what good water's worth:
If you had been in Turkey or in Spain,
Or with a famish'd boat's crew had your berth,
Or in the desert heard the camel's bell,
You'd wish yourself where truth is - in a well. [ Byron ]

He who hears but one bell, hears but one sound. [ Proverb ]

It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell. [ Proverb ]

In cloths, cheap handsomeness doth bear the bell. [ George Herbert ]

As fond of it, as an ape is of a whip and a bell. [ Proverb ]

Good deeds ring clear through heaven like a bell. [ J. Paul F. Richter ]

O very gloomy is the House of Woe,
Where tears are falling while the bell is knelling.
With all the dark solemnities which show
That Death is in the dwelling!
O, very, very dreary is the room
Where Love, domestic Love, no longer nestles.
But smitten by the common stroke of doom.
The corpse lies on the trestles! [ Hood ]

He is like a bell, that will go for every one that pulls it. [ Proverb ]

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell. [ William Shakespeare ]

Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment. [ Rabelais ]

God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffinman's bell. [ Carlyle ]

From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot he is all mirth; he has twice or thrice cut Cupid's bowstring, and the little hangman dare not shoot at him: he hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks. [ William Shakespeare ]

Association is the delight of the heart not less than of poetry. Alison observes that an autumn sunset, with its crimson clouds, glimmering trunks of trees, and wavering tints upon the grass, seems scarcely capable of embellishment. But if in this calm and beautiful glow the chime of a distant bell steal over the fields, the bosom heaves with the sensation that Dante so tenderly describes. [ Willmott ]

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bell in Scrabble®

The word bell is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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bell in Words With Friends™

The word bell is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters bell:

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Words within the letters of bell

2 letter words in bell (2 words)

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3 letter words in bell (1 word)

ell

4 letter words in bell (1 word)

bell

bell + 1 blank (5 words)

bellebellsbellylabellibel

bell + 2 blanks (20 words)

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Words containing the sequence bell

Words that start with bell (85 words)

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Words with bell in them (124 words)

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Words that end with bell (14 words)

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Word Growth involving bell

Shorter words in bell

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Longer words containing bell

antebellum

barbell barbellate

belladonna belladonnas

bellbottom bellbottomed

bellbottom bellbottoms

bellboy bellboys

belle belled labelled mislabelled

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bells bluebells

bells coralbells

bells cowbells

bells deathbells

bells doorbells

bells dumbbells

bells hairbells

bells handbells

bells hawkbells

bells rebells harebells

bells sleighbells

bells snowbells

bellweed

bellwether bellwethers

bellwort bellworts

belly beerbelly

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