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Bell vs. Clapper — What's the Difference?

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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