Bell vs. Tongue — 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.

The tongue is a muscular organ in the mouth of a typical vertebrate. It manipulates food for mastication and swallowing as part of the digestive process, and is the primary organ of taste.

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

The fleshy muscular organ in the mouth of a mammal, used for tasting, licking, swallowing, and (in humans) articulating speech.

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

Used in reference to a person's style or manner of speaking

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

A strip of leather or fabric under the laces in a shoe, attached only at the front end.

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

The free-swinging metal piece inside a bell which is made to strike the bell to produce the sound.

The corolla of a flower

A long, low promontory of land.

The body of a jellyfish.

A projecting strip on a wooden board fitting into a groove on another.

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

The vibrating reed of a musical instrument or organ pipe.

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

A jet of flame

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

Sound (a note) distinctly on a wind instrument by interrupting the air flow with the tongue

To put a bell on.

Lick or caress with the tongue

To cause to flare like a bell.

The fleshy, movable, muscular organ, attached in most vertebrates to the floor of the mouth, that is the principal organ of taste, an aid in chewing and swallowing, and, in humans, an important organ of speech.

To assume the form of a bell; flare.

An analogous organ or part in invertebrate animals, as in certain insects or mollusks.

To utter long, deep, resonant sounds; bellow.

The tongue of an animal, such as a cow, used as food.

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.

A spoken language or dialect.

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.

Speech; talk

The sounding of a bell as a signal.

The act or power of speaking

A telephone call.

Tongues Speech or vocal sounds produced in a state of religious ecstasy.

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

Style or quality of utterance

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

The bark or baying of a hunting dog that sees game

(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 vibrating end of a reed in a wind instrument.

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

A flame.

(computing) The bell character.

The flap of material under the laces or buckles of a shoe.

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

A spit of land; a promontory.

(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 bell clapper.

A bubble.

The harnessing pole attached to the front axle of a horse-drawn vehicle.

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

A protruding strip along the edge of a board that fits into a matching groove on the edge of another board.

(transitive) To attach a bell to.

(Music) To separate or articulate (notes played on a brass or wind instrument) by shutting off the stream of air with the tongue.

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

To touch or lick with the tongue.

To telephone.

To give (someone) a French-kiss.

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

To provide (a board) with a tongue.

(intransitive) To bellow or roar.

To join by means of a tongue and groove.

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

(Archaic) To scold.

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.

(Music) To articulate notes on a brass or wind instrument.

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

To project

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

The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.

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.

This organ, as taken from animals used for food (especially cows).

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

Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.

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

(metonym) A language.

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

(obsolete) Speakers of a language, collectively.

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

(obsolete) Voice the distinctive sound of a person's speech; accent distinctive manner of pronouncing a language.

To utter by bellowing.

Manner of speaking, often habitually.

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

(metonym) A person speaking in a specified manner (most often plural).

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

The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.

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

(obsolete) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

The sound of a bell being struck;

Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

(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.

(obsolete) Honourable discourse; eulogy.

The shape of a bell

Glossolalia.

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

In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).

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

Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.

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

A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.

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

A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.

The flared opening of a tubular device

The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.

Attach a bell to;

The clapper of a bell.

(figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.

A small sole (type of fish).

(nautical) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.

(music) A reed.

(geology) A division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction.

On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).

(slang) To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex.

To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.

To join by means of a tongue and groove.

To talk; to prate.

To speak; to utter.

To chide; to scold.

An organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.

The power of articulate utterance; speech.

Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

Honorable discourse; eulogy.

A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue.

Speech; words or declarations only; - opposed to thoughts or actions.

A people having a distinct language.

The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.

Any small sole.

That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form.

A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance.

A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove.

A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake.

The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.

The clapper of a bell.

A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also. the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.

To speak; to utter.

To chide; to scold.

To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.

To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together.

To talk; to prate.

To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.

A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity

A human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language

Any long thin projection that is transient;

A manner of speaking;

A narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea

The tongue of certain animals used as meat

The flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot

Metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side

Articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments

Lick or explore with the tongue