Gratis ordbok - engelska svenska tyska lexikon

Definitioner

Substantiv

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.
2. The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
3. The sounding of a bell as a signal.
4. (chiefly British, informal) A telephone call.
5. A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
6. (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
7. (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)
8. The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
9. (computing) A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.).
10. Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
11. (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.

Verb

1. (transitive) To attach a bell to.
2. (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
3. To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
4. (slang, transitive) To telephone.
5. (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.