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bell
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)
- 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!
- 1848, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Bells"
- The sounding of a bell as a signal.
- (chiefly Britain, informal) A telephone call.
- I’ll give you a bell later.
- A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
- (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
- (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)
- The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
- (computing) A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.).
- Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
- (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.
- 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)
- (transitive) To attach a bell to.
- Who will bell the cat?
- (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
- to bell a tube
- (slang, transitive) To telephone.
- (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)
- (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.
- (transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
- 1591, Edmund Spenser, Astrophel:
- Their leaders bell their bleating tunes In doleful sound.
- 1591, Edmund Spenser, Astrophel:
Derived terms
- belling
Translations
Noun
bell (plural bells)
- 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)
- 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
- singular imperative of bellen
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of bellen
Maltese
Etymology
From Arabic ?????? (balla).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?ll/
Verb
bell (imperfect jbill, past participle miblul)
- to dip (immerse something shortly or partly into a liquid)
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??/
- (South Wales, also) IPA(key): /be??/
Adjective
bell
- Soft mutation of pell.
Mutation
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pileus
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pilleus (“a felt cap”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?li?s/
- Homophone: pileous
Noun
pileus (plural pilei)
- (mycology) The cap of a mushroom.
- Meronym: hymenium
- 1994, Barry H. Rumack, David G. Spoerke, Handbook of Mushroom Poisoning: Diagnosis and Treatment, CRC Press (?ISBN), page 75:
- One must check the size and shape of the pileus as well as its color. Many weird and unexpected shapes are found in the mushroom kingdom.
- The bell of a jellyfish.
- (meteorology) A small thin cloud attached to a cumulus cloud.
- Synonyms: cap cloud, scarf cloud
- Hypernym: accessory cloud
- 2011, Gavin Pretor-Pinney, The Cloud Collector's Handbook, Hachette UK (?ISBN)
- The most short-lived of all the accessory clouds, pileus is also the most beautiful.
- (historical, Ancient Rome) A conical felt hat worn in Ancient Rome and Greece.
- Coordinate term: Phrygian cap
- 1859, William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 920:
- Among the Romans the cap of felt was the emblem of liberty. When a slave obtained his freedom he had his head shaved, and wore instead of his hair an undyed pileus.
- The top of the head of a bird, from the bill to the nape.
- Synonym: crown
Translations
Further reading
- pileus (meteorology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- pileus (hat) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- pileus (mycology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- epulis
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?pi?.le.us/, [?pi???e?s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?pi.le.us/, [?pi?l?us]
Noun
p?leus m (genitive p?le?); second declension
- Alternative spelling of pilleus
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
- p?l?us (pill-) in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1,181/1
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