Bell vs. Trumpet

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.

Trumpetnoun

(musical instrument) A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.

‘The royal herald sounded a trumpet to announce their arrival.’;

Bellnoun

The sounding of a bell as a signal.

Trumpetnoun

In an orchestra or other musical group, a musician that plays the trumpet.

‘The trumpets were assigned to stand at the rear of the orchestra pit.’;

Bellnoun

A telephone call.

‘I’ll give you a bell later.’;

Trumpetnoun

The cry of an elephant.

‘The large bull gave a basso trumpet as he charged the hunters.’;

Bellnoun

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

Trumpetnoun

(figurative) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.

Bellnoun

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

Trumpetnoun

A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.

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)

Trumpetnoun

A kind of traffic interchange involving at least one loop ramp connecting traffic either entering or leaving the terminating expressway with the far lanes of the continuous highway.

Bellnoun

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

Trumpetverb

(intransitive) To sound loudly, be amplified

‘The music trumpeted from the speakers, hurting my ears.’;

Bellnoun

(computing) A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.).

Trumpetverb

(intransitive) To play the trumpet.

‘Cedric made a living trumpeting for the change of passersby in the subway.’;

Bellnoun

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

Trumpetverb

(intransitive) Of an elephant, to make its cry.

‘The circus trainer cracked the whip, signaling the elephant to trumpet.’;

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.

Trumpetverb

(transitive) To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically

‘Andy trumpeted Jane's secret across the school, much to her embarrassment.''’;

Bellnoun

An instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar, used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.

Trumpetnoun

A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone.

‘The trumpet's loud clangorExcites us to arms.’;

Bellnoun

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

Trumpetnoun

A trumpeter.

Bellverb

(transitive) To attach a bell to.

‘Who will bell the cat?’;

Trumpetnoun

One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.

‘That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times . . . to be the trumpet of his praises.’;

Bellverb

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

‘to bell a tube’;

Trumpetnoun

A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.

Bellverb

To telephone.

Trumpetverb

To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.

‘They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish.’;

Bellverb

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

‘Hops bell.’;

Trumpetverb

To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry.

Bellverb

(intransitive) To bellow or roar.

Trumpetnoun

a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

Bellverb

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

Trumpetverb

proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet;

‘Liberals like to trumpet their opposition to the death penalty’;

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.

Trumpetverb

play or blow on the trumpet

Bellnoun

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

Trumpetverb

utter in trumpet-like sounds;

‘Elephants are trumpeting’;

Bellnoun

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

Trumpet

The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet with the highest register in the brass family, to the bass trumpet, which is pitched one octave below the standard B♭ or C Trumpet.

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.