Bell vs. Campanology
Difference Between Bell and Campanology
Bellnoun
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.
Campanologynoun
The study of bells and their casting, tuning, and ringing.
Bellnoun
The sounding of a bell as a signal.
Bellnoun
A telephone call.
I’ll give you a bell later.Bellnoun
A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
Bellnoun
(music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
Bellnoun
(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)
Bellnoun
The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
Bellnoun
(computing) A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.).
Bellnoun
Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
Bellnoun
(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.
Bellnoun
An instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar, used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.
Bellnoun
The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
Bellverb
(transitive) To attach a bell to.
Who will bell the cat?Bellverb
(transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
to bell a tubeBellverb
To telephone.
Bellverb
(intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
Hops bell.Bellverb
(intransitive) To bellow or roar.
Bellverb
(transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
Bellnoun
a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
Bellnoun
a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
Bellnoun
the sound of a bell being struck;
saved by the bellshe heard the distant toll of church bellsBellnoun
(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.
Bellnoun
the shape of a bell
Bellnoun
a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
Bellnoun
English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
Bellnoun
United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)
Bellnoun
a percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes of different lengths that are struck with a hammer
Bellnoun
the flared opening of a tubular device
Bellverb
attach a bell to;
bell cows
