Bell vs. Carillon

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.

Carillonnoun

(musical instrument) A set of bells, often in a bell tower, sometimes operated by means of a keyboard (manual or pedal), originating from the Low Countries.

Bellnoun

The sounding of a bell as a signal.

Carillonnoun

A tune adapted to be played by musical bells.

Bellnoun

A telephone call.

‘I’ll give you a bell later.’;

Carillonnoun

A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys.

Bellnoun

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

Carillonnoun

A tune adapted to be played by musical bells.

Bellnoun

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

Carillonnoun

set of bells hung in a bell tower

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)

Carillonnoun

playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower

Bellnoun

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

Carillon

A carillon (US: CARE-ə-lon or UK: kə-RILL-yən;) is a pitched percussion instrument that is played with a keyboard and consists of at least 23 cast bronze bells in fixed suspension and tuned in chromatic order so that they can be sounded harmoniously together. Often housed in bell towers, carillons are usually owned by churches, universities, or municipalities.

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 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.

Bellnoun

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

Bellnoun

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

Bellnoun

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.

Bellnoun

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

Bellverb

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

Bellverb

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

Bellverb

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

Bellverb

To utter by bellowing.

Bellverb

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.’;

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 bell’; ‘she 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.

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’;

Bell

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.