Knell vs. Knoll — What's the Difference?

Knell is a surname, and may refer to:

A small rounded hill or mound; a hillock.

To ring slowly and solemnly, especially for a funeral; toll.

A knell.

To give forth a mournful or ominous sound.

To ring mournfully; knell.

To signal, summon, or proclaim by tolling.

To ring or sound (a bell, for example) mournfully; knell.

The sound of a bell knelling; a toll.

A small mound or rounded hill.

A signal of disaster or destruction.

(oceanography) A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.

(intransitive) To ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.

A knell.

(transitive) To signal or proclaim something (especially a death) by ringing a bell.

(transitive) To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.

(transitive) To summon by, or as if by, ringing a bell.

(ambitransitive) To sound (something) like a bell; to knell.

The sound of a bell knelling; a toll (particularly one signalling a death).

(transitive) To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc).

(figuratively) A sign of the end or demise of something or someone.

To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.

The stroke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell;

A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill.

To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen.

The tolling of a bell; a knell.

To summon, as by a knell.

To ring, as a bell; to strike a knell upon; to toll; to proclaim, or summon, by ringing.

The sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something

To sound, as a bell; to knell.

Ring as in announcing death

A small natural hill

Make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification;