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a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck doorbell: a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells" (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. the shape of a bell a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905) English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961) United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922) chime: a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument attach a bell to; "bell cows" the flared opening of a tubular device
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| bell jar |
a bell-shaped glass cover used to protect and display delicate objects or to cover scientific apparatus or to contain gases
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| belladonna |
perennial Eurasian herb with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries; extensively grown in United States; roots and leaves yield atropine an alkaloidal extract or tincture of the poisonous belladonna plant that is used medicinally
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| belly |
abdomen: the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis a protruding abdomen a part that bulges deeply; "the belly of a sail" the hollow inside of something; "in the belly of the ship" swell out or bulge out the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish
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| Bellini |
Italian composer of operas (1801-1835)
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