Bell vs. Tongue

Difference Between Bell and Tongue

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.

Tonguenoun

The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.

Bellnoun

The sounding of a bell as a signal.

Tonguenoun

Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.

Bellnoun

A telephone call.

I’ll give you a bell later.

Tonguenoun

(metonym) A language.

He was speaking in his native tongue.The poem was written in her native tongue.

Bellnoun

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

Tonguenoun

The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.

Bellnoun

(music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.

Tonguenoun

(obsolete) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

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)

Tonguenoun

(obsolete) Honourable discourse; eulogy.

Bellnoun

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

Tonguenoun

Glossolalia.

Bellnoun

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

Tonguenoun

In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot, so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth.

Bellnoun

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

Tonguenoun

Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.

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.

Tonguenoun

A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.

the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance

Bellnoun

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

Tonguenoun

A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.

Bellnoun

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

Tonguenoun

The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.

Bellverb

(transitive) To attach a bell to.

Who will bell the cat?

Tonguenoun

The clapper of a bell.

Bellverb

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

to bell a tube

Tonguenoun

(figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.

Bellverb

To telephone.

Tonguenoun

A small sole (type of fish).

Bellverb

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

Hops bell.

Tonguenoun

(nautical) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.

Bellverb

(intransitive) To bellow or roar.

Tonguenoun

(music) A reed.

Bellverb

(transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.

Tongueverb

On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).

Playing wind instruments involves tonguing on the reed or mouthpiece.

Bellnoun

a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck

Tongueverb

(slang) To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex.

Bellnoun

a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed

Tongueverb

To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.

a soil horizon that tongues into clay

Bellnoun

the sound of a bell being struck;

saved by the bellshe heard the distant toll of church bells

Tongueverb

To join by means of a tongue and groove.

to tongue boards together

Bellnoun

(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.