Synonym: Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bell, Alexander Melville Bell, Bell, Melville Bell, Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Stephen, bell shape, buzzer, campana, chime, doorbell, gong, ship's bell, toll. Similar words: belt, label, rebel, below, be left, believe, belong to, believe in. Meaning: [bel] n. 1. a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck 2. a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed 3. the sound of a bell being struck 4. (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m. 5. the shape of a bell 6. a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905) 7. English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961) 8. United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922) 9. a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument 10. the flared opening of a tubular device. v. attach a bell to.
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4. I was roused by the sound of a bell.
5. The sheep's bell tinkled through the hills.
6. I've been ringing the door bell, there's no answer.
7. He raised the hammer and hit the bell.
8. The church bell tolled the hour.
9. The bell has rung for a long time.
10. The bell is massive, weighing over 40 tons.
11. There is a big bell in the room.
12. He plinked the litlle bell before them.
13. I was roused by the telephone bell.
14. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876.
15. I rang the bell,[Sentencedict.com] but there was no answer.
16. There's that bell again,I'll get it.
17. The bell rang at 20-minute intervals.
18. Graham Bell was the father of telephone.
19. She rang the bell and waited.
20. Mary heard the penetrating bell of an ambulance.
21. The big bell in the Temple of Reclining Buddha was recast in the sixteenth century.
22. He rang the bell and waited for someone to answer the door.
23. The bell is ringing.
24. The bell is knelling.
25. They could hear the sound of a bell tolling in the distance.
26. The sound of the bell was muffled by the curtains.
27. The church bell used to be rung to signify disaster.
28. Poverty is an abnormality to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
29. A notable feature of the church is its unusual bell tower.
30. His voice came down the line as clear as a bell.