| Engelsk > Engelsk |
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| 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. |
| Svenska > Engelsk |
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| klocka |
| 1. n-c. clock, watch; an instrument used to measure or keep track of time |
| 2. n-c. (in questions) the time (of day) |
| Vad är klockan? - What time is it? |
| 3. n-c. bell; metallic resonating object |
| 4. n-c. bell; signal at a school |
| 5. v. to time, to measure time; e.g. how fast a runner runs a distance |
| 6. v. to clock, to synchronize using a clock or clock pulses |
