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单词 bell
释义

bell

See also: Bell, bèll, and bell'

English

A large bell
A bicycle bell

Pronunciation

  • enPR: bĕl, IPA(key): /bɛl/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛl
  • Homophone: belle

Etymology 1

From Middle English belle, from Old English belle (“bell”), from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ. Cognate with West Frisian belle, bel, Dutch bel, Low German Belle, Bel, Danish bjelde, Swedish bjällra, Norwegian bjelle, Icelandic bjalla.

Noun

bell (plural bells)

  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.
    • 1848, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Bells"
      HEAR the sledges with the bells —
      Silver bells!
      What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
  2. An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.
  3. The sounding of a bell as a signal.
    • 2011 December 18, Ben Dirs, “Carl Froch outclassed by dazzling Andre Ward”, in BBC Sport‎:
      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. (chiefly Britain, informal) A telephone call.
    I’ll give you a bell later.
  5. A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
  6. (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
  7. (nautical) 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. The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
  9. (computing) The bell character.
  10. Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
    • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:
      In a cowslip's bell I lie.
  11. (architecture) 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. (Scotland, archaic) A bubble.
    • 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet
      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.
Synonyms
  • (in heraldry): campane
  • (rare): tintinnabule
Hyponyms
Kinds of bell (noun)
  • bicycle bell
  • bridle-bell
  • campane
  • campana
  • campanel, campanella
  • cascabel
  • church bell
  • codon
  • corrigiunculum, corrigiuncula
  • crotal
  • curfew, curfew-bell
  • doorbell
  • dinner-bell
  • dupla
  • handbell
  • jingle bell
  • nola
  • peal
  • petasius
  • signum, signum bell
  • squilla
  • tintinnabulum
  • tocsin
  • vesper, vesper-bell
  • yong bell
Meronyms
  • (internally suspended tool for striking): clapper, tongue
  • (flaring open end): mouth
Holonyms
  • (structure housing bells): bell tower, campanile
  • (sets of bells): carillon, peal
Coordinate terms
Terms coordinate with bell (noun)
  • alarm
  • buzz
  • buzzer
  • chime
  • curfew
  • dinger
  • ding-dong
  • gong
  • peal
  • ringer
  • siren
  • tocsin
  • toll
Derived terms
  • agogo bell
  • alarm-bell
  • alarm bell
  • altar bell
  • Angelus bell
  • bear away the bell
  • bear the bell
  • bell animalcule
  • bell arch
  • bell-bearer
  • bellbind
  • bell-bind
  • bellbird
  • bell, book and candle
  • bell-bottom, bell-bottomed
  • bell-bottomed trousers
  • bell bottoms
  • bell-bottoms
  • bell-bottom trousers
  • bellboy
  • bell boy
  • bell buoy
  • bell button
  • bell captain
  • bellcast
  • bell character
  • bell chord
  • bell-collar
  • bell cot
  • bellcote
  • bell cow
  • bellcrank
  • bell crank
  • bell curve
  • bell curve god
  • bell deck
  • belldom
  • belled
  • bell end
  • bell-end
  • bell-faced
  • bellflower
  • bellfounder
  • bell founder
  • bell-founder
  • bellfounding
  • bell frog
  • bell gable
  • bell-gable
  • bellgirl
  • Bell Green
  • bell heather
  • bellhop
  • bell hopper
  • bell-horse
  • bellhouse
  • bell housing
  • bellist
  • bell jar
  • bell lerp
  • belllike
  • bellmaker
  • bellmaking
  • bellman
  • bell metal
  • bell miner (Manorina melanophrys)
  • bellmouth
  • bell-mouthed
  • bell pepper
  • bellperson
  • bell-pull
  • bellpull
  • bell punch
  • bellpush
  • bell ringer
  • bell-ringing
  • bell rope
  • bells and smells, smells and bells
  • bells and whistles
  • bell-shaped
  • bell sleeve
  • bell-tent
  • bell tent
  • bell the cat
  • bell-topper
  • bell tower
  • bell trap
  • bell tree
  • bell-wether
  • bellwether
  • bellwoman
  • bell work
  • bellwort
  • bluebell
  • calling bell
  • Canterbury bells
  • Christmas bells
  • church bell
  • clear as a bell
  • coral bells, coralbells, coral-bells (Heuchera)
  • cowbell
  • cow bell
  • da bell
  • death bell
  • diving-bell
  • diving bell
  • diving bell spider
  • division bell
  • door-bell
  • doorbell
  • dressing-bell
  • dumb-bell
  • dumbbell
  • engine bell
  • forebell
  • give someone a bell
  • handbell
  • harebell (Campanula rotundifolia)
  • hawkbell
  • heather-bell
  • hell's bells
  • horse-bell
  • jingle bell
  • joy-bell
  • kettlebell
  • larum-bell
  • lose the bell
  • low-bell
  • lowbell
  • market bell
  • Mass bell
  • mindfulness bell
  • minute bell
  • mountain bell (Darwinia)
  • mule bell
  • Oconee bells
  • on a bell
  • passing-bell
  • passing bell
  • peal of bells
  • pull the other one, it's got bells on
  • ring a bell
  • ring of bells
  • ring one's bell
  • ring someone's bell
  • sacring-bell
  • sacring bell
  • saints' bell
  • sance bell
  • sanctus bell
  • save by the bell
  • saved by the bell
  • sheep-bell
  • ship's bells
  • shop-bell
  • silverbell
  • Six Bells
  • sleighbell
  • sleigh bell
  • snowbell
  • soul bell
  • sound as a bell
  • swimming bell
  • telephone-bell
  • tubular bells
  • unring a bell
  • warning bell
  • wind-bell
  • with bells on
  • yellow bells
  • you can't unring a bell
Descendants
  • → Fiji Hindi: belo
  • → Japanese: ベル (beru)
  • → Korean: 벨 (bel)
Translations
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Translations to be checked
See also
  • (study of bells): campanology
  • (expert in bells): campanist, campanologist
  • (player of bells): bell-ringer, carilloner, carilloneur, carillonist, ringer, tintinnabulary, tintinnabulist
  • (playing of bells): bell-ringing, tintinnabulation, tintinnabulism, tintinnation
  • (bell-related): campanistic, campanologic, campanarian, tintinnabular, tintinnabular, tintinnabulary, tintinnabulatory, tintinnabulous
  • (related to a peal of bells or bell tower): campanilian
  • (bell-shaped): bell-shaped, campanal, campaniform, campaniliform, campanular, campanulate, campanulated, campanulous, tintinnabulate
  • (containing bells): campaned
  • (sounding like a small bell): jingling, tinkling, tintinnabulant, tintinnabulating, tintinnating

Verb

bell (third-person singular simple present bells, present participle belling, simple past and past participle belled)

  1. (transitive) To attach a bell to.
    Who will bell the cat?
  2. (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
    to bell a tube
  3. (slang, transitive) To telephone.
    • 2006, Dominic Lavin, Last Seen in Bangkok:
      "Vinny, you tosser, it's Keith. I thought you were back today. I'm in town. Bell us on the mobile.
  4. (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
    Hops bell.
Translations
See also
  • bell out

Etymology 2

From Middle English bellen, from Old English bellan (“to bellow; make a hollow noise; roar; bark; grunt”), from Proto-Germanic *bellaną (“to sound; roar; bark”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to sound; roar; bark”). Cognate with Scots bell (“to shout; speak loudly”), Dutch bellen (“to bark”), German Low German bellen (“to ring”), German bellen (“to bark”), Swedish böla (“to low; bellow; roar”).

Verb

bell (third-person singular simple present bells, present participle belling, simple past and past participle belled)

  1. (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
    • 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature:
      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 [...].
    • 1894 May, Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published June 1894, OCLC 752934375:
      As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled / Once, twice and again!
    • 1872, Robert Browning, Fifine at the Fair:
      You acted part so well, went alɬ-fours upon earth / The live-long day, brayed, belled.
    • 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber 2005, page 128:
      Then, incredibly, a rutting stag belled by the trunks.
  2. (transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
    • 1591, Edmund Spenser, Astrophel:
      Their leaders bell their bleating tunes In doleful sound.
Derived terms
  • belling
Translations

Noun

bell (plural bells)

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

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin bellus. Compare Occitan bèll, bèu, French beau, Spanish bello.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈbeʎ/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -eʎ
  • Homophone: vell

Adjective

bell (feminine bella, masculine plural bells, feminine plural belles)

  1. (literary or dialectal) beautiful
    Synonyms: ben plantat, bonic, bufó, formós, maco, preciós

Usage notes

Disused in most dialects because of its homophony with vell (“old”), but still frequently found in literary texts.

Derived terms

  • bellament
  • bellesa
  • belles arts
  • embellir

Further reading

  • “bell” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “bell”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
  • “bell” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “bell” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

German

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)

Verb

bell

  1. singular imperative of bellen
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of bellen

Maltese

Root
b-l-l
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic بَلَّ‎ (balla).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɛll/

Verb

bell (imperfect jbell, past participle miblul)

  1. to dip (immerse something shortly or partly into a liquid)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of bell
singularplural
1st person2nd person3rd person1st person2nd person3rd person
perfectmbellejtbellejtbellbellejnabellejtubellew
fbellet
imperfectmnbelltbelljbellnbellutbellujbellu
ftbell
imperativebellbellu

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɛɬ/
  • (South Wales, also) IPA(key): /beːɬ/

Adjective

bell

  1. Soft mutation of pell.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
pellbellmhellphell
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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