Bell vs. Chime — 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.

An apparatus for striking a bell or set of bells to produce a musical sound.

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

Often chimes(Music) A set of tuned bells used as an orchestral instrument.

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

A single bell, as in the mechanism of a clock.

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

The sound produced by or as if by a bell or bells.

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

Agreement; accord

The corolla of a flower

The rim of a cask.

The body of a jellyfish.

To sound with a harmonious ring when struck.

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

To make a musical sound by striking a bell or set of bells.

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

To be in agreement or accord

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

To produce (music) by striking bells.

To put a bell on.

To strike (a bell) to produce music.

To cause to flare like a bell.

To signal or make known by chiming

To assume the form of a bell; flare.

To call, send, or welcome by chiming.

To utter long, deep, resonant sounds; bellow.

To repeat insistently.

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.

(musical instruments) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.

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.

An individual ringing component of such a set.

The sounding of a bell as a signal.

A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.

A telephone call.

The sound of such an instrument or device.

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

A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.

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

(intransitive) To make the sound of a chime.

(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)

(transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.

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

(transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.

(computing) The bell character.

(intransitive) To agree; to correspond.

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

To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.

(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.

The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.

A bubble.

A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions.

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

Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.

(transitive) To attach a bell to.

To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.

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

To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.

To telephone.

To join in a conversation; to express assent; - followed by in or in with.

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

To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.

(intransitive) To bellow or roar.

To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.

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

To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.

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

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

Emit a sound;

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;