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Concierge and Bell Definitions

Concierge

A staff member of a hotel or apartment complex who assists guests or residents, as by handling the storage of luggage, taking and delivering messages, and making reservations for tours.

Bell

A hollow metal musical instrument, usually cup-shaped with a flared opening, that emits a metallic tone when struck.

Concierge

A person, especially in France, who lives in an apartment house, attends the entrance, and serves as a janitor.

Bell

The round, flared opening of a wind instrument at the opposite end from the mouthpiece.

Concierge

One who attends to the wishes of hotel guests.
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Bell

Bells A percussion instrument consisting of metal tubes or bars that emit tones when struck.

Concierge

(British) One who attends to the maintenance of a building and provides services to its tenants and visitors.

Bell

A hollow, usually inverted vessel, such as one used for diving deep below the surface of a body of water.

Concierge

(obsolete) conciergerie.

Bell

The corolla of a flower
"In a cowslip's bell I lie" (Shakespeare).
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Concierge

One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female.

Bell

The body of a jellyfish.

Concierge

A French caretaker of apartments or a hotel; lives on the premises and oversees people entering and leaving and handles mail and acts as janitor or porter

Bell

A stroke on a hollow metal instrument to mark the hour.

Bell

The time indicated by the striking of this instrument, divided into half hours.

Bell

The bellowing or baying cry of certain animals, such as a deer in rut or a beagle on the hunt.

Bell

To put a bell on.

Bell

To cause to flare like a bell.

Bell

To assume the form of a bell; flare.

Bell

To utter long, deep, resonant sounds; bellow.

Bell

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.

Bell

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

Bell

The sounding of a bell as a signal.

Bell

A telephone call.
I’ll give you a bell later.

Bell

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

Bell

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

Bell

(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)

Bell

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

Bell

(computing) The bell character.

Bell

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

Bell

(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.

Bell

A bubble.

Bell

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

Bell

(transitive) To attach a bell to.
Who will bell the cat?

Bell

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

Bell

To telephone.

Bell

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

Bell

(intransitive) To bellow or roar.

Bell

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

Bell

A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.

Bell

A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.

Bell

Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower.

Bell

That 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.

Bell

The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.

Bell

To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat.

Bell

To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube.

Bell

To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.

Bell

To utter by bellowing.

Bell

To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar.
As loud as belleth wind in hell.
The wild buck bells from ferny brake.

Bell

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

Bell

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

Bell

The sound of a bell being struck;
Saved by the bell
She heard the distant toll of church bells

Bell

(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.

Bell

The shape of a bell

Bell

A phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)

Bell

English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)

Bell

United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)

Bell

A percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes of different lengths that are struck with a hammer

Bell

The flared opening of a tubular device

Bell

Attach a bell to;
Bell cows

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