Bell vs. Campanile — What's the Difference?

A bell is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument. Most bells have the shape of a hollow cup that when struck vibrates in a single strong strike tone, with its sides forming an efficient resonator.

A bell tower, especially one near but not attached to a church or other public building.

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

A bell tower (especially one that is freestanding), often associated with a church or other public building, especially in Italy.

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

A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church.

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

A bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building

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

The corolla of a flower

The body of a jellyfish.

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

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

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

To put a bell on.

To cause to flare like a bell.

To assume the form of a bell; flare.

To utter long, deep, resonant sounds; bellow.

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.

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.

The sounding of a bell as a signal.

A telephone call.

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) The bell character.

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.

A bubble.

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

(transitive) To attach a bell to.

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

To telephone.

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

(intransitive) To bellow or roar.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

To utter by bellowing.

To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar.

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

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

The sound of a bell being struck;

(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.

The shape of a bell

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

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

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

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

The flared opening of a tubular device

Attach a bell to;