different between bell vs cone

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?l, IPA^(key): /b?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English belle, from Old English belle (“bell”), from Proto-Germanic *bell?. Cognate with West Frisian belle, bel, Dutch bel, Low German Belle, Bel, Danish bjelde, Swedish bjällra, Norwegian bjelle, Icelandic bjalla.

Noun

bell (plural bells)

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.
   • 1848, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Bells"

     HEAR the sledges with the bells —

     Silver bells!

     What a world of merriment their melody foretells!

2. The sounding of a bell as a signal.
3. (chiefly Britain, informal) A telephone call.

   I’ll give you a bell later.

4. A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
5. (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
6. (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)
7. The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
8. (computing) A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.).
9. Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
10. (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.
11. An instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar, used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.

Synonyms

• (in heraldry): campane
• (rare): tintinnabule

Hyponyms

Meronyms

• (internally suspended tool for striking): clapper, tongue
• (flaring open end): mouth

Holonyms

• (structure housing bells): bell tower, campanile
• (sets of bells): carillon, peal

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Fiji Hindi: belo
• ? Japanese: ?? (beru)

Translations

See also

• (study of bells): campanology
• (expert in bells): campanist, campanologist
• (player of bells): bell-ringer, carilloner, carilloneur, carillonist, ringer, tintinnabulary, tintinnabulist
• (playing of bells): bell-ringing, tintinnabulation, tintinnabulism, tintinnation
• (bell-related): campanistic, campanologic, campanarian, tintinnabular, tintinnabular, tintinnabulary, tintinnabulatory, tintinnabulous
• (related to a peal of bells or bell tower): campanilian
• (bell-shaped): bell-shaped, campanal, campaniform, campaniliform, campanular, campanulate, campanulated, campanulous, tintinnabulate
• (containing bells): campaned
• (sounding like a small bell): jingling, tinkling, tintinnabulant, tintinnabulating, tintinnating

Verb

bell (third-person singular simple present bells, present participle belling, simple past and past participle belled)

1. (transitive) To attach a bell to.

   Who will bell the cat?

2. (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.

   to bell a tube

3. (slang, transitive) To telephone.
4. (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.

   Hops bell.

See also

• bell out

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English bellen, from Old English bellan (“to bellow; make a hollow noise; roar; bark; grunt”), from Proto-Germanic *bellan? (“to sound; roar; bark”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el- (“to sound; roar; bark”). Cognate with Scots bell (“to shout; speak loudly”), Dutch bellen (“to bark”), German Low German bellen (“to ring”), German bellen (“to bark”), Swedish böla (“to low; bellow; roar”).

Verb

bell (third-person singular simple present bells, present participle belling, simple past and past participle belled)

1. (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
   • As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled / Once, twice and again!

   • 1872, Robert Browning, Fifine at the Fair:

     You acted part so well, went al?-fours upon earth / The live-long day, brayed, belled.

   • 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber 2005, page 128:

     Then, incredibly, a rutting stag belled by the trunks.

2. (transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
   • 1591, Edmund Spenser, Astrophel:

     Their leaders bell their bleating tunes In doleful sound.

Derived terms

• belling

Translations

Noun

bell (plural bells)

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

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin bellus. Compare Occitan bèll, bèu, French beau, Spanish bello.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?be?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophone: vell

Adjective

bell (feminine bella, masculine plural bells, feminine plural belles)

1. beautiful

Derived terms

• bellament
• bellesa
• belles arts
• embellir

Further reading

• “bell” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “bell” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “bell” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bell” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

German

Verb

bell

1. singular imperative of bellen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of bellen

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (balla).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?ll/

Verb

bell (imperfect jbill, past participle miblul)

1. to dip (immerse something shortly or partly into a liquid)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??/
• (South Wales, also) IPA^(key): /be??/

Adjective

bell

1. Soft mutation of pell.

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Middle French cone, from Latin conus (“cone, wedge, peak”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kônos, “cone, spinning top, pine cone”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ko?n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Noun

cone (plural cones)

1. (geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
2. (geometry) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
3. (topology) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.
4. Anything shaped like a cone.
6. The fruit of a conifer.
7. A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.
8. An ice cream cone.
9. A traffic cone
10. A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use.
11. (anatomy) Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
12. (slang) The bowl piece on a bong.
13. (slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
14. (slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
15. (slang) A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them)
16. (category theory) An object V together with an arrow going from V to each object of a diagram such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows from V which subtend A also commute with it. (Then V can be said to be the cone’s vertex and the diagram which the cone subtends can be said to be its base.)

    Hyponym: limit

17. A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
18. A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.

Synonyms

• (geometry): conical surface
• (ice cream cone): cornet, ice cream cone

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• quean
• queen

Verb

cone (third-person singular simple present cones, present participle coning, simple past and past participle coned)

1. (transitive) To fashion into the shape of a cone.
2. (intransitive) To form a cone shape.
   • 1971, United States. Congress. House Appropriations, Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1972 (part 3, page 69)

     Under the old method the material coned at the bottom of the borehole and as a result it would not go under houses and buildings.

3. (frequently followed by "off") To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones

References

Anagrams

• Coen, Econ., Noce, ceno-, coen-, cœn-, econ, econ., once

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin cornua.

Noun

cone f (plural cones)

1. horn

Latin

Noun

c?ne

1. vocative singular of c?nus

References

• cone in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)1560s, from Middle French cone (16c.) or directly from Latin conus "a cone, peak of a helmet," from Greek konos "cone, spinning top, pine cone," perhaps from PIE root *ko- "to sharpen" (cognates: Sanskrit sanah "whetstone," Latin catus "sharp," Old English han "stone").

Noun

cone m (plural cones)

1. (geometry, etc.) cone (conical shape)