• in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury
noun
• a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine
• a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid
• an abundant source
• an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway)
• an enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps
adverb
• (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well')
• thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form
• indicating high probability; in all likelihood
• (used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully
• to a suitable or appropriate extent or degree
• favorably; with approval
• to a great extent or degree
• with great or especially intimate knowledge
• with prudence or propriety
• with skill or in a pleasing manner
• in a manner affording benefit or advantage
• in financial comfort
• without unusual distress or resentment; with good humor
• a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
• a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
• a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
• English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
• the sound of a bell being struck
• United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)
• (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 percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
• a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)
• `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms
• someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action
verb
• take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
• a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through
• a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
• a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels
• (often plural) a means of communication or access
• a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
• a television station and its programs
• a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors
verb
• transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
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