bell

Definitions

• 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.
• The sounding of a bell as a signal.
• (chiefly) A telephone call.
• A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
• (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
• (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)
• The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
• (computing) A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.).
• Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
• (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.
• An instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar, used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.