| bell | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. bell | a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck. |
| ~ acoustic device | a device for amplifying or transmitting sound. |
| ~ church bell | a bell in a church tower (usually sounded to summon people to church).; "church bells were ringing all over town" |
| ~ clapper, tongue | metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side. |
| ~ cowbell | a bell hung around the neck of cow so that the cow can be easily located. |
| ~ death bell, death knell | a bell rung to announce a death. |
| ~ dinner bell | a bell rung to announce that dinner has been served. |
| ~ electric bell | a bell activated by the magnetic effect of an electric current. |
| ~ fire bell | a bell rung to give a fire alarm. |
| ~ liberty bell | the bell of Independence Hall; rung 8 July 1776 to announce the signing of the Declaration of Independence. |
| ~ school bell | a bell rung to announce beginning or ending of class. |
| ~ sheep bell | a bell hung round the neck of a sheep so that the sheep can be easily located. |
| ~ shop bell | a bell attached to the door of a small shop; warns the proprietor that a customer has entered the shop. |
| ~ signaling device | a device used to send signals. |
| ~ cascabel, sleigh bell | a bell attached to a sleigh, or to the harness of a horse that is pulling a sleigh. |
| ~ sound bow | contact (the part of a bell) against which the clapper strikes. |
| ~ warning bell, tocsin | a bell used to sound an alarm. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. bell, buzzer, doorbell | a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed. |
| ~ night bell | a doorbell to be used at night. |
| ~ push button, button, push | an electrical switch operated by pressing.; "the elevator was operated by push buttons"; "the push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk" |
| n. (event) | 3. bell, toll | the sound of a bell being struck.; "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells" |
| ~ sound | the sudden occurrence of an audible event.; "the sound awakened them" |
| ~ knell | the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something. |
| ~ angelus, angelus bell | the sound of a bell rung in Roman Catholic churches to announce the time when the Angelus should be recited. |
| n. (time) | 4. bell, ship's bell | (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.. |
| ~ sailing, seafaring, navigation | the work of a sailor. |
| ~ time unit, unit of time | a unit for measuring time periods. |
| n. (shape) | 5. bell, bell shape, campana | the shape of a bell. |
| ~ curve, curved shape | the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes. |
| n. (person) | 6. alexander melville bell, bell, melville bell | a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905). |
| ~ phonetician | a specialist in phonetics. |
| n. (person) | 7. bell, vanessa bell, vanessa stephen | English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961). |
| ~ bloomsbury group | an inner circle of writers and artists and philosophers who lived in or around Bloomsbury early in the 20th century and were noted for their unconventional lifestyles. |
| ~ painter | an artist who paints. |
| n. (person) | 8. alexander bell, alexander graham bell, bell | United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922). |
| ~ artificer, discoverer, inventor | someone who is the first to think of or make something. |
| n. (artifact) | 9. bell, chime, gong | a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument. |
| ~ carillon | set of bells hung in a bell tower. |
| ~ handbell | a bell that is held in the hand. |
| ~ percussion instrument, percussive instrument | a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another. |
| n. (artifact) | 10. bell | the flared opening of a tubular device. |
| ~ blunderbuss | a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle. |
| ~ funnel | a conically shaped utensil having a narrow tube at the small end; used to channel the flow of substances into a container with a small mouth. |
| ~ opening | a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made.; "they left a small opening for the cat at the bottom of the door" |
| ~ wind instrument, wind | a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath. |
| v. (contact) | 11. bell | attach a bell to.; "bell cows" |
| ~ attach | cause to be attached. |
| Thevetia peruviana | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. thevetia neriifolia, thevetia peruviana, yellow oleander | tropical American shrub or small tree having glossy dark green leaves and fragrant saffron yellow to orange or peach- colored flowers; all parts highly poisonous. |
| ~ genus thevetia, thevetia | genus of poisonous tropical American evergreen shrubs and trees having entire leaves and large cymose flowers. |
| ~ bush, shrub | a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems. |
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