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3. | bell - the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells" Synonyms: toll | |
4. | 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. Synonyms: ship's bell | |
5. | ![]() Synonyms: bell shape, campana | |
6. | Bell - a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905) Synonyms: Alexander Melville Bell, Melville Bell | |
7. | Bell - English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961) Synonyms: Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Stephen | |
8. | ![]() Synonyms: Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bell | |
9. | bell - a percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes of different lengths that are struck with a hammer | |
10. | bell - the flared opening of a tubular device | |
Verb | 1. | bell - attach a bell to; "bell cows" |
1. | BELL - An early system on the IBM 650 and Datatron 200 series. Versions: BELL L2, BELL L3. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. | ||
2. | (company) | Bell - Bell Telephone or Bell Laboratories. | |
3. | (character) | bell - ASCII 7, ASCII mnemonic "BEL", the character code which prodces a standard audibile warning from the
computer or terminal. In the teletype days it really was a
bell, since the advent of the VDU it is more likely to be a
sound sample (e.g. the sound of a bell) played through a
loudspeaker. Also called "G-bell", because it is typed as Control-G. The term "beep" is preferred among some microcomputer hobbyists. Compare feep, visible bell. |