Concierge vs. Bell

Difference Between Concierge and Bell

Conciergenoun

One who attends to the wishes of hotel guests.

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.

Conciergenoun

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

Bellnoun

The sounding of a bell as a signal.

Conciergenoun

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

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 tube

Bellverb

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 bells

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.