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Substantiivi

1. (music) 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. The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
3. An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of their presence.
4. The sounding of a bell as a signal.
5. (chiefly British, informal) A telephone call.
6. A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
7. (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
8. (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)
9. The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
10. (computing) The bell character.
11. Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
12. (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.
13. (Scotland, archaic) A bubble.
14. (British, vulgar, slang) Clipping of bell-end (“stupid or contemptible person”).

Verbi

1. (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
2. (transitive) To attach a bell to.
3. (transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
4. (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
5. (slang, transitive) To telephone.
6. (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
7. To ring a bell.