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Signification (Anglais)

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. (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. A bubble.
13. (slang) Clipping of bell-end (“stupid or contemptible person”).

cloche

grosse cloche

clarine

cri de rut

sonette

des cloches

campana

small bell

large bell

hand bell

bell shape

ship’s bell

o’clock

little bell

BEL

phosphoriser

bell mouth

funnel-shaped opening

cascabel

toller

pipe socket

tree-type

muzzle bell

grain hopper

furnace lid

undercarriage bay

immersion bell

rutting call

funnel shaped

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/bɛl/

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.