| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Bell.[Websters]
2. To have funnelled or trumpeted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To be coned or horned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have grooved, scored or slotted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To be striped or rayed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have stroked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To be hooded, canopied, cowled or bonneted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have cupped or bowled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To be blistered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be sleeved or jacketed.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb bell.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (bell) | 1. Attach a bell to; "bell cows".[Wordnet]. 2. To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat.[Websters]. 3. To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube.[Websters]. 4. To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.[Websters]. 5. To utter by bellowing.[Websters]. 6. To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar.[Websters]. 7. Base verb from the following inflections: belling, belled, bells, beller, bellers, bellingly and belledly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Hung with a bell or bells.[Websters]
2. Being striped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being notorious. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being canopied or cowled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being sleeved. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being horned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being winged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being scared. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being ridged.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "BELLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1801. (references) |
Specialty Definition: BELLED
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Mining | Eng. Widened; said of the enlarged portion of a shaft at the landing for running the cars past the shaft, and for caging. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: bell
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Acton Bell | Acton Bell was the pseudonym of Anne Brontë, the sixth and last child in her family. (references) | ||
| Alarm bell | 1: A bell that gives notice on danger. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: The sound of an alarm (usually a bell). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Alexander Bell | United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Alexander Bell Patterson | Alexander Bell Patterson (born April 22, 1911) was a long time Canadian Member of Parliament and was briefly leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada. Patterson, a minister by profession, was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1953 election from the riding of Fraser Valley, British Columbia. He was defeated in the 1958 election, but returned to Parliament in 1962. (references) | ||
| Alexander Graham Bell | United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Alexander Melville Bell | A phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Alexander Melville Bell | Alexander Melville Bell (March 1, 1819 - 1905), American educationalist, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland. (references) | ||
| Alphonzo Bell | Alphonzo Edward Bell was a male tennis player from the United States. (references) | ||
| Altar bell | In Roman Catholicism, a small bell placed on the credence or in some other convenient place on the epistle side of the altar. Its original intention was to draw the parishioners attention to the occurrence of transubstantiation (especially for those who knew not Latin!). (references) | ||
| Andrew Bell | Andrew Bell (1726 - 1809), Scottish printer; co-founded Encyclopædia Britannica with Colin Macfarquhar. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: bell
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Adam Bell | Literature | A northern outlaw, whose name has become a synonym for a good archer. (See Clym of the Clough). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Air bell | Mining | In froth flotation, the small air pocket inducted or forced into the pulp at depth; e.g., bell and the two-walled semistable bubble after emergence from pulp into froth have different characteristics and gas-to-liquid, area-to-volume relationships, hence the distinction. These bubbles vary in attractive and retaining power for aerophilic grains and are a criticalcomponent of the flotation process. Syn:air bubble. (references) | |
| Alarm Bell | Slang in 1811 | To hear a bell in your sleep, denotes that you will have cause for anxiety. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... | |
| Alarum Bell | Literature | 1: Shakespeare: Macbeth, ii. 3. 2: In feudal times a 'larum bell was rung in the castle in times of danger to summon the retainers to arms. A variant of alarm (q.v.). 3: "Awake! awake! 4: Ring the alarum bell! Murder and treason!" Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| American Bell Inc. | Post & Telecom | The name used temporarily by AT&T unit offering enhanced services for business and residential customers. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Bell (BEL) character | Business | A transmission control character that is used when there is a need to call for user or operator attention in a communications system, and that usually activates an audio or visual alarm or other attention-getting device. (references) | |
| Bell 103 | Computing | Bell 103 | |
| Bell and hopper | Mining | See: cup and cone. (references) | |
| Bell cap | Chemical Industry | An inverted cup with a notched or slotted periphery to disperse the vapor in small bubbles beneath the surface of the liquid on the bubble plate in a distillation column(BTM). Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Bell captain | Labor | A hotel fonctionary in charge of bellboys called also bell captain. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: bell
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| BELL | English | British Electric Lamp,Ltd. | Electrical Engineering | |
| BEL | English | Bell character | N/A | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
