bell
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Is bell a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
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Definition
noun (English)
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.Examples: "HEAR the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells!"; "The bell which called the pupils to their lessons can still be seen on the roof."Synonyms: campane
2. (chiefly British, informal) A telephone call.Examples: "I’ll give you a bell later."Britishinformal
3. (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
4. (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)
5. (computing) The bell character.Synonyms: alert, beep, mul:\a
6. (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.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To attach a bell to.Examples: "Who will bell the cat?"transitive
2. (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.Examples: "to bell a tube"transitive
3. (slang, transitive) To telephone.Examples: ""Vinny, you tosser, it's Keith. I thought you were back today. I'm in town. Bell us on the mobile."slangtransitive
4. (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.Examples: "Hops bell."intransitive
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To bellow or roar.Examples: "This animal is said to harbour in the place where he resides. When he cries, he is said to bell; the print of his hoof is called the slot; his tail is called the single; his excrement the fumet; his horns are called his head [...]."; "As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled / Once, twice and again!"; "You acted part so well, went alɬ-fours upon earth / The live-long day, brayed, belled."intransitive
2. (transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.Examples: "Their leaders bell their bleating tunes In doleful sound."transitive
noun (English)
1. (US, Canada) a telephone utility; a Baby Bell.CanadaUS
Definition source: Wiktionary