Word Finder - bells

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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.

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The sounding of a bell as a signal.

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A telephone call.

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I’ll give you a bell later.

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A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.

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The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.

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Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)

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The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.

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A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.).

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Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.

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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.

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An instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar, used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.

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To attach a bell to.

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Who will bell the cat?

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To shape so that it flares out like a bell.

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to bell a tube

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To telephone.

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To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.

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Hops bell.

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The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.

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To bellow or roar.

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To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.

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Ship's bells; the strokes on a ship's bell, every half hour, to mark the passage of time.

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Short for bell-bottoms.

The dark interior set off caution bells again.

His "Bells of Shandon" has always been greatly admired.

Never more than one pneumatophore is found in a cormus, and when present it is always situated at the highest point above the swimming bells, if these are present also.

An improvement was effected in this respect by the introduction of the " bridging " system, in which the bells possessing high inductance are placed in parallel between the two wires of the circuit.

Although the bells are constantly in circuit their high impedance prevents any appreciable interference with the telephonic currents.

It is said that when he preached in the Dominican church of Metz, the bells were rung to drown his voice, but his voice outdid the bells, and on the next occasion he had three thousand hearers.

The heaviest of the seven bells (Kaiserglocke), cast in 1874 from the metal of French guns, weighs 543 cwt., and is the largest and heaviest bell that is rung.

The conditions permit of the circulation of the alternating currents of low periodicity, which are used for operating the bells, but in respect of the battery the circuit is open until the subscriber lifts the receiver, when the hook switch, thus released, joins the transmitter with one winding of an induction coil in series across the circuit.

Of the four bells connected to a circuit each responds to a different frequency.

The church of St John the Baptist, principally Perpendicular, - has in its tower three bells presented by Charles Both this town and the adjacent urban district of Radstock (pop. 3355) have a considerable trade in coal, which is mined in the vicinity.

It deals in 32 chapters with ecclesiastical usages, churches, altars, prayers, bells, pictures, baptism and the Holy Communion.

Sacred images were not the only specimens of glyptic art produced in these six centuries; reliquaries, bells, vases, incenseburners, candlesticks, lanterns, decorated arms and armour, and many other objects, showing no less mastery of design and execution, have reached us.

These evidences of civilization did not make their appearance until the first great era of Japanese reform, the Taika period (645650), when stations were established along the principal highways, provision was made of post-horses, and a system of bells and checks was devised for distinguishing official carriers.

Bells may be regarded as somewhat like circular plates vibrating with radial nodes, and with the edges turned down.

The city hall on the east side is surmounted by a tall clock-tower containing one of the largest bells in the world.

They are usually surmounted by two or three towers, but the bells are hung in a kind of wooden porch, resembling a

In many Roman Catholic countries - in Spain, for example - it is usual for the faithful to spend much time in the churches in meditation on the "seven last words" of the Saviour; no carriages are driven through the streets; the bells and organs are silent; and in every possible way it is sought to deepen the impression of a profound and universal grief.

Of parks and open spaces there are in the south, Brodie Park (22 acres), presented in 1871 by Robert Brodie; towards the north Fountain Gardens (7a acres), the gift of Thomas Coats and named from the handsome iron fountain standing in the centre; in the north-west, St James Park (40 acres), with a racecourse (racing dates from 1620, when the earl of Abercorn and the Town Council gave silver bells for the prize); Dunn Square and the old quarry grounds converted and adorned; and Moss Plantation beyond the north-western boundary.

In the foundries and machine shops small engines, boiler§ and church bells are made, and the government maintains an ice and cold-storage plant.

The badge of Rostock is the figure 7; and a local rhyme explains that there are 7 doors to St Mary's church, 7 streets from the market-place, 7 gates on the landward side and 7 wharves on the seaward side of the town, 7 turrets on the town-hall, which has 7 bells, and 7 linden trees in the park.

Restrictions in church-building, in dress, in the use of beasts of burden, in social intercourse with Moslems, and in the use of bells and of the sign of the cross were enforced..

In the Lower Harz, as in Switzerland, the cows, which carry bells harmoniously tuned, are driven up into the heights in early summer, returning to the sheltered regions in late autumn.

The fine lofty tower contains a chime of forty-five bells.

The other heirlooms, which are also kept in the sultan's palace, and which descend to each sultan in turn, are the "Nobab Nagara" (two royal drums) from Johore and Menang-Kabau, and the "Gunta Alamat" (bells), the gift of Sultan Bahkei of Johore or Malacca.

Among various institutions may be mentioned Whittington's almshouses, near Whittington Stone, at the foot of Highgate Hill, on which the future mayor of London is reputed to have been resting when he heard the peal of Bow bells and "turned again."

To him we owe the well-known catch, "Hark, the bonny Christ Church bells."

As soon as Petya found himself in the square he clearly heard the sound of bells and the joyous voices of the crowd that filled the whole Kremlin.

The larger bell was muffled and the little bells on the harness stuffed with paper.

The prince allowed no one at Bald Hills to drive with ringing bells; but on a long journey Alpatych liked to have them.

The noise of wheels, hoofs, and bells was heard from the gateway as a little trap passed out.

At the descent of the high steep hill, down which a winding road led out of the town past the cathedral on the right, where a service was being held and the bells were ringing, Pierre got out of his vehicle and proceeded on foot.

And by some latent sequence of thought the descent of the Mozhaysk hill, the carts with the wounded, the ringing bells, the slanting rays of the sun, and the songs of the cavalrymen vividly recurred to his mind.

Does the name John Luke Grasso ring any bells?

The horse's breath made puffs of steam as she trotted along the road to the cadence of tinkling bells.

The feel of his warm fingers on her cheek, the uneasy stomach - they were all warning bells.

The four telephones on a circuit are so wired that the relays 9-- P ..,, connect two of the bells between each wire and fl-- 0 7-..9 *"y earth, and further that one of each pair of bells responds to positive and the other to negative o-- pulsations.

The post office is a handsome sandstone building in Renaissance style; it is colonnaded on two sides with polished granite columns and surmounted by a clock tower, containing a peal of bells.

The king said in a threatening tone, "Then we shall sound our trumpets," whereupon Capponi tore up the document in his face and replied, "And we shall ring our bells."

Several of the lesser elevations near the lake are especially famous as view-points, such as Castle Head, Walla Crag, Ladder Brow and Cat Bells.

Io (see also Bells).

The fame of its ten bells dates from the wars between Spaniards and Moors in which "Arcos of the Frontier" received its name.

From an evidential point of view the apparition is the most valuable class of death-warning, inasmuch as recognition is more difficult in the case of an auditory hallucination, even where it takes the form of spoken words; moreover, auditory hallucinations coinciding with deaths may be mere knocks, ringing of bells, &c.; tactile hallucinations are still more difficult of recognition; and the hallucinations of smell which are sometimes found as death-warnings rarely have anything to associate them specially with the dead person.

Close by was found a horse collar with 14 bronze bells.

A further application is that in bell-ringing, of the variations in order in which a peal of bells may be rung.

The submerged "bells of Aberdovey" (since Seithennin "the drunkard" caused the formation of Cardigan Bay) are famous in a Welsh song.

For ornament women wear silver ankle-rings with bells, silver necklaces and silver or gold rosettes in the ears.

A small volume entitled Flower de Luce (1867) contains, among other fine things, the beautiful "threnos" on the burial of Hawthorne, and "The Bells of Lynn."

Still he remained as sunny and genial as ever, looking from his Cambridge study windows across the Brighton meadows to the Brookline hills, or enjoying the "free wild winds of the Atlantic," and listening to "The Bells of Lynn" in his Nahant home.

Among the manufactures of the borough of Bristol are clocks, woollen goods, iron castings, hardware, brass ware, silverplate and bells.

The four chief sins of which he was guilty were dancing, ringing the bells of the parish church, playing at tipcat and reading the history of Sir Bevis of Southampton.