| inglese > italiano | |
| bell | |
| 1. sost. campanello, campana | |
| inglese > inglese | |
| bell | |
| 1. subst. 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. subst. The sounding of a bell as a signal. |  |
| 3. subst. (chiefly British, informal) A telephone call. |  |
| I’ll give you a bell later. |  |
| 4. subst. A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending. |  |
| 5. subst. (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument. |  |
| 6. subst. (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. subst. The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot. |  |
| 8. subst. (computing) A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.). |  |
| 9. subst. Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower. |  |
| 10. subst. (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. subst. 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. subst. The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut. |  |
| italiano > inglese | |
| campana | |
| 1. subst. bell |  |