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say it: bel
bell is a noun and verb meaning "a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck". It is pronounced /ˈbɛl/ — bel. It carries 11 recorded senses.
a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
the sound of a bell being struck
“saved by the bell”
“she heard the distant toll of church bells”
(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.
seafaring
the shape of a bell
a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)
a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
the flared opening of a tubular device
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bell come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.