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.
An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of their presence.
The sounding of a bell as a signal.
(British, informal) A telephone call.
A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
The bell character.
Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
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.
(Scotland, archaic) A bubble.
(British, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang, vulgar) Clipping of bell-end (“stupid or contemptible person”).

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

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