bell

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

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.
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. The sounding of a bell as a signal.
4. (British, informal) A telephone call.
5. A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
6. The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
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. The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
9. The bell character.
10. Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
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. (Scotland, archaic) A bubble.
13. (British, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang, vulgar) Clipping of bell-end (“stupid or contemptible person”).

Verb

1. (transitive) To attach a bell to.
2. (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
3. (slang, transitive) To telephone.
4. (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
5. To ring a bell.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
2. (transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.

Sinonieme

gong

buzzer

doorbell

chime

small bell

toll

clock

ring

💍

campana

watch

⌚

large bell

hand bell

bell shape

handbell

ship’s bell

jingle bell

socket

iron

knell

little

low

moo

mouthing

muff

musical instrument

o’clock

plunger

🪠

ring a bell

sleeve

small

ticker

time

⌚

timepiece

little bell

sleigh bell

BEL

infundibulum

phosphoriser

bell mouth

funnel-shaped opening

cascabel

toller

pipe socket

tree-type

muzzle bell

grain hopper

furnace lid

undercarriage bay

immersion bell

a

🅰️

Vertalings

cloche

🔔

campana

🔔

campana

🔔

Glocke

🔔

sonnette

🔔

sino

🔔

Klingel

🔔

klok

bel

🔔

κουδούνι

campana

campana

🔔

καμπάνα

campanilla

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/bɛl/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: belle

Geërf van Old English: belle

Verwante met Fries: belle

Verwante met Nederlands: bel

Verwante met Nederduits: Belle

Verwante met Deens: bjelde

Verwante met Sweeds: bjällra

Verwante met Noors: bjelle

Verwante met Yslands: bjalla

Geërf van Middle English: bellen

Geërf van Old English: bellan

Verwante met Skots: bell

Verwante met Nederlands: bellen

Verwante met Duits: bellen

Verwante met Sweeds: böla

In summary

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 bjælde, Swedish bjällra, Norwegian bjelle, Icelandic bjalla.

Sinne

Sound as a bell .

Red and green bell peppers are high in para-coumaric acid .