(n): a device for amplifying or transmitting sound
(n): a device used to send signals
(n): a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
(n): an electrical switch operated by pressing
(n): the sound of a bell being struck
(n): the sudden occurrence of an audible event
(n): (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
(n): a unit for measuring time periods
(n): the shape of a bell
(n): the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes
(n): a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
(n): a specialist in phonetics
(n): English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
(n): an artist who paints
(n): United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)
(n): someone who is the first to think of or make something
(n): a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
(n): a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another
(n): the flared opening of a tubular device
(n): a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made
(v): attach a bell to
(v): cause to be attached
A breastplate (ornamental) knot.
On ships at sea, each watch (which lasted 4 hours) is divided into 8 bells; thus, one bell equals 30 minutes. Every 30 minutes, the ship's bell sounds the number of bells elapsed since the start of the watch.