• 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
Note: This list has been curated by our developer and author and fine-tuned since 2016 with manual additions, exclusions and rankings. Thousands of user contributions from rappers, singers, songwriters and poets have also been used for accuracy.