bell

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 bĕl

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
    — HEAR the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
  2. The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
  3. An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of their presence.
  4. The sounding of a bell as a signal.
    — Referee Steve Smoger was an almost invisible presence in the ring as both men went at it, although he did have a word with Froch when he landed with a shot after the bell at the end of the eighth.
  5. A telephone call. UK,informal
    — I’ll give you a bell later.
  6. A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
  7. The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
  8. Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
  9. The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
  10. The bell character.
  11. Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
    — In a cowslip's bell I lie.
  12. 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.
  13. The rounded upper part of a jellyfish.
  14. A bubble. Scotland,archaic
    — He swam to the place where Mary disappeared but there was neither boil nor gurgle on the water, nor even a bell of departing breath, to mark the place where his beloved had sunk.
  15. Clipping of bell-end (“stupid or contemptible person”). UK,abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,slang
动词 v.
  1. To attach a bell to. transitive
    — Who will bell the cat?
  2. To bellow or roar. intransitive
    — 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 [...].
  3. To shape so that it flares out like a bell. transitive
    — to bell a tube
  4. To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth. transitive
    — Their leaders bell their bleating tunes In doleful sound.
  5. To telephone. slang,transitive
    — "Vinny, you tosser, it's Keith. I thought you were back today. I'm in town. Bell us on the mobile.
  6. To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom. intransitive
    — Hops bell.
  7. To ring a bell.
    — So that the Euston signalman may be advised of approaching trains as soon as possible, the Camden signalman sets up and transmits the description of each train immediately after it is belled to him.

词形变化

bells plural bells present,singular,third-person belling participle,present belled participle,past belled past bells present,singular,third-person belling participle,present belled participle,past belled past bells plural

词汇关系

近义词
tintinnabule
衍生词
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相关词
study of bells bell-ringer carilloner carilloneur carillonist ringer tintinnabulary tintinnabulist bell-ringing tintinnabulation tintinnabulism tintinnation campaned bell out
部分词
mouth

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.
Proto-Germanic *bellǭ
Proto-West Germanic *bellā
Old English belle
Middle English belle
English bell
Inherited from Middle English belle, from Old English belle, from Proto-West Germanic *bellā, from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-.
Cognate with West Frisian belle, bel (“bell”), Dutch bel (“bell”), Low German Belle, Bel (“bell”), Danish bjælde (“bell”), Faroese bjølla (“bell”), Icelandic bjalla (“bell”), Norwegian bjelle (“bell”), Swedish bjällra (“bell”).
词源 2
From Middle English bellen, from Old English bellan (“to bellow; make a hollow noise; roar; bark; grunt”), from Proto-Germanic *bellaną (“to sound; roar; bark”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to sound; roar; bark”). Cognate with Scots bell (“to shout; speak loudly”), Dutch bellen (“to ring”), German Low German bellen (“to ring”), German bellen (“to bark”), Swedish böla (“to low; bellow; roar”).
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