Bell vs. Clapper — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bell and Clapper
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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.
Clapper
One who applauds.
Bell
A hollow metal musical instrument, usually cup-shaped with a flared opening, that emits a metallic tone when struck.
Clapper
The tongue of a bell.
Bell
The round, flared opening of a wind instrument at the opposite end from the mouthpiece.
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Clapper
(Slang) The tongue of a garrulous person.
Bell
Bells A percussion instrument consisting of metal tubes or bars that emit tones when struck.
Clapper
Clappers Two flat pieces of wood held between the fingers and struck together rhythmically.
Bell
A hollow, usually inverted vessel, such as one used for diving deep below the surface of a body of water.
Clapper
One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands.
Bell
The corolla of a flower
"In a cowslip's bell I lie" (Shakespeare).
Clapper
An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.
Bell
The body of a jellyfish.
Clapper
A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.
Bell
A stroke on a hollow metal instrument to mark the hour.
Clapper
A clapstick musical instrument.
Bell
The time indicated by the striking of this instrument, divided into half hours.
Clapper
(sewing) A pounding block.
Bell
The bellowing or baying cry of certain animals, such as a deer in rut or a beagle on the hunt.
Clapper
The chattering damsel of a mill.
Bell
To put a bell on.
Clapper
(cinematography) The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.
Bell
To cause to flare like a bell.
Clapper
A person's tongue, as a source of chatter or nagging.
Bell
To assume the form of a bell; flare.
Clapper
(obsolete) A rabbit burrow.
Bell
To utter long, deep, resonant sounds; bellow.
Clapper
(transitive) To ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper.
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.
Clapper
To make a repetitive clapping sound; to clatter.
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.
Clapper
Of birds, to repeatedly strike the mandibles together.
Bell
The sounding of a bell as a signal.
Clapper
A person who claps.
Bell
A telephone call.
I’ll give you a bell later.
Clapper
That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See Illust. of Bell.
Bell
A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
Clapper
A rabbit burrow.
Bell
(music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
Clapper
Someone who applauds
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)
Clapper
A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
Bell
The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
Clapper
Metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
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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