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1. bell -- (a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck).
2. doorbell, bell, buzzer -- (a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed).
3. bell, toll -- (the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells").
4. bell, ship's bell -- ((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.).
5. bell, bell shape, campana -- (the shape of a bell).
6. Bell, Melville Bell, Alexander Melville Bell -- (a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)).
7. Bell, Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Stephen -- (English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)).
8. Bell, Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bell -- (United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)).
9. chime, bell, gong -- (a percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes of different lengths that are struck with a hammer).
10. bell -- (the flared opening of a tubular device).

1. bell -- (attach a bell to; "bell cows").

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