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bells


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bells - noun

  • a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
  • a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
  • the sound of a bell being struck
  • (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)
  • a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
  • the flared opening of a tubular device

    • bells - thesaurus

    buzzer   campana   chime   doorbell   gong   toll  

    Scrabble score for bells

    b is 3 e is 1 l is 1 l is 1 s is 1
    Scrabble score = 7

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