Le mot anglais du jour

bell

cloche

Définitions

anglais > français
bell
1. n. Sonnette.
2. n. Cloche, sonnette.
3. n. Pavillon (instrument de musique)
4. n. (Cyclisme) Sonnette utilisé par le cycliste pour appeler ou pour avertir de sa présence.
anglais > anglais
bell
1. n. 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.
2. n. The sounding of a bell as a signal.
3. n. (chiefly British, informal) A telephone call.
I’ll give you a bell later.
4. n. A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
5. n. (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
6. n. (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)
7. n. The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
8. n. (computing) A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.).
9. n. Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
10. n. (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 capi
11. n. An instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar, used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.
12. v. To attach a bell to.
Who will bell the cat?
13. v. To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
to bell a tube
14. v. (slang) To telephone.
15. v. (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
Hops bell.
16. v. (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
17. v. To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
18. n. The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
français > anglais
cloche
1. n-f. bell (metal apparatus used to produce sound)
2. n-f. a glass covering, originally bell-shaped, for garden plants to prevent frost damage and promote early growth
3. n-f. a bell-shaped, close-fitting women’s hat with a deep rounded crown and narrow rim
4. n-f. a tableware cover, often resembling a bell
5. n-f. (colloquial) a clumsy person, an oaf
6. adj. (colloquial) clumsy, stupid