• Czech: zvonek
• Finnish: kello
• Hungarian: csengő
• Japanese: (, kane), (beru)
• Polish: dzwonek
• Russian: звонок
• Slovene: zvonec

• Polish: czara
• Russian: раструб (rástrub)

• ttbc Arabic: (jaras), (nāqūs)
• ttbc Breton: kloc'h kleier p (church), sonerez
• ttbc Bulgarian: камбана (church), звънец
• ttbc Dutch: bel , klok
• ttbc French: cloche
• ttbc Hebrew: פעמון (pa'amon) (1), צלצול (tziltzul) (2,3)
• ttbc Indonesian: bel, lonceng, genta
• ttbc Interlingua: campana
• ttbc Italian: campana (1), squillo (2), campanella (3)
• ttbc Korean: 종
• ttbc Latin: campana
• ttbc Occitan: campana
• ttbc Portuguese: sino (big); campainha (small)
• ttbc Romanian: clopot
• ttbc Scottish Gaelic: clag
• ttbc Telugu: గంట
• ttbc Vietnamese: (cái) chuông

See also

• tintinnabulum

Verb

1. To attach a bell to.

   Who will bell the cat?

2. To bellow or roar.

   1824: A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, Oliver Goldsmith — 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; when simple, the first year they are called broches; the third year, spears; the fourth year, that part which bears the antlers is called the beam, and the little impressions upon its surface, glitters; those which rise from the crust of the beam are called pearls.

3. To shape so that flares out like a bell.

Catalan

Etymology

From bellus

Adjective

1. beautiful

Related terms

• bellament adv
• bellesa

References

Bell may refer to:

Devices that produce sound

• Bell (instrument), a simple sound-making device
  • Altar bell, a bell rung during the Catholic Mass
  • Bell (school), a bell that signals transitions during a school day
  • Bell cymbal, a small cymbal. The bell is also the center, rounded part of a cymbal.
  • Bell tree, instrument made of nested bells
  • Bermuda carriage bell, used in vehicles as a warning to pedestrians
  • Carillon, an instrument which utilizes bells, normally housed in a bell tower, and played from a keyboard
  • Chime (bell instrument), similar to a carillon, but with fewer bells
  • Church bell, a bell hanging in a church tower
  • Electric bell, such as a doorbell or buzzer
  • Handbell, a handheld bell, rung singly (such as a school bell) or in tuned sets played by a bell choir
  • Jingle bell, a spherical bell that produces a distinct "jingle" sound
  • Last call bell, a bell that signals the closing of a bar
  • Mark tree, a set of small hanging chimes, sometimes mislabeled as a wind chime
  • Orchestra bell, better known as Glockenspiel
  • Ship's bells, bells which mark time on a ship
  • Slave bell, used to regulate slavery
  • Tubular bell, used in tuned sets as in a longcase clock, orchestral chime, organ, or tower
• Bell (wind), the round, flared opening of a wind instrument opposite the mouthpiece
• Bell character, a character that produces an audible signal at a terminal
• Bell effect, a musical technique similar to an arpeggio
• Bell unit (bel), measure of the ratio between two quantities

In communication

• Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
• Bell Centennial, a 1978 typeface developed for use in phone books
• Bell Gothic, a 1938 typeface developed for use in phone books
• Bell Labs, a research & development laboratory
• Bell Operating Company, one of the local telephone companies owned by AT&T prior to 1984.
• Bell System, North America's telephone system from the 1880s to the 1980s
• Regional Bell Operating Company, sometimes known as "Baby Bells"
  • AT&T, Verizon, and Qwest, Bell Telephone Companies, formerly known by names such as New Jersey Bell, Illinois Bell, etc.
  • Cincinnati Bell
• The Bell Telephone Hour, a television show
• Bell Canada, one of the major Canadian telecommunications companies, including subsidiaries Bell Aliant, Bell Nordiq, Télébec, NorthernTel, Bell Sympatico, Bell Mobility, and Bell ExpressVu
• Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company, a former company in Antwerp (Belgium), now part of Alcatel.

The word "bell" also can mean a signal from a engine order telegraph on a ship or submarine.

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Places

• Bell, New South Wales
• Bell, Queensland
• Bell Park, Victoria
• Bells Beach, an internationally famous surf beach in Victoria
• Bell railway station, New South Wales
• Bell railway station, Melbourne, railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Bell Centre, a stadium in Montreal
• Bell Island, Newfoundland and Labrador
• Bell, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
• Bell, Rhein-Hunsrück, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
• Bell, California
• Bell, Florida
• Bell Acres, Pennsylvania
• Bell Buckle, Tennessee
• Bell Center, Wisconsin
• Bell City, Missouri
• Bells Corners, Ontario
• Bell County, Kentucky
• Bell County, Texas
• Bell Gardens, California
• Bell Hill, Washington
• Bell Township, Pennsylvania
• Bellville (disambiguation)
• Bell High School (disambiguation)

In biology

• Bell Miner, colonial honeyeater endemic to southeastern Australia
• Bell pepper, Cultivar Group of the species Capsicum annuum
• Bellbird, several kinds of bird in various regions of the world that are noted for their far-carrying bell-like call
• Diving bell spider, spider which lives entirely under water
• Bell, the umbrella-shaped, non-stinging part of medusas in jellyfish
• Bell, the corolla of a flower
• Bell, the bellow or cry of a rutting stag or hunting dog

In mathematics

• Bell curve, illustrates normal distribution in statistics
  • Bell curve grading, a use of the bell curve in comparing student achievement and converting percent and percentile grades to letter grades
• Bell number, the number of partitions of a set with n members
• Bell's theorem, the most famous legacy of the late John Bell

Other

• Bell (architecture), the part of the capital of a column between the abacus and neck molding; especially, the nearly bell-shaped naked core assumed to exist within the leafage of a Corinthian capital
• Bell (crater), a crater on Earth's moon
• Bell (fictional currency), a fictional currency in Nintendo's Animal Crossing series of video games
• Bell (Monotype), a 1788 serif typeface
• Bell barrow, a burial mound
• Bell beaker, prehistoric pottery
• Bell bottoms, a style of trousers
• "Bell end", a British slang term for the Glans penis
• Bell Helicopter, an American helicopter manufacturer
• Bell housing, part of an automotive transmission
• Bell lineage, a lineage or clan of the Duala people of Cameroon
• Bell pit, a type of coal mine
• Diving bell, a hollow inverted vessel for diving below water
• Saved by the Bell, popular American teen sitcom that is known under varying titles
• The Bell, a supposed anti-gravity experiment by Nazi scientists
• The Liberty Bell, American bell of great historic significance
• USS Bell, one of two ships in the United States Navy
• Bells (Blackadder), an episode of the British sitcom Blackadder II
• The Bell, a novel by Iris Murdoch
• The Bells, a poem by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Bells, a Canadian rock band
• The Bells meteorite of 1961, which fell in Texas, United States (see Meteorite falls)
• Bell company
• Kelly Bell a page 3 model

See also

• Bel
• Bell (surname)
• Belle
• Bell House

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