English Dictionary

bell

IPA（発音記号）

/bɛl/

名詞

イギリス英語 くだけた表現 スコットランド英語 古語

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.

日本語の意味

金属やその他の硬い素材で作られ、たたかれると共鳴して音を出す打楽器。通常は逆さのカップ状で、縁が広がった形状をしている。

A small brass bell on the windowsill jingled whenever the breeze came through.

窓辺に置かれた小さな真鍮の鈴は、風が吹くたびに鳴った。

意味（1）

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.

HEAR the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells!

意味（2）

An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.

意味（3）

The sounding of a bell as a signal.

Referee Steve Smoger was an almost invisible presence in the ring as both men went at it, although he did have a word with Froch when he landed with a shot after the bell at the end of the eighth.

意味（4）

(chiefly Britain, informal) A telephone call.

I’ll give you a bell later.

意味（5）

A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.

意味（6）

(music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.

意味（7）

(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)

意味（8）

The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.

意味（9）

(computing) The bell character.

意味（10）

Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.

In a cowslip's bell I lie.

意味（11）

(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 capital.

意味（12）

(Scotland, archaic) A bubble.

He swam to the place where Mary disappeared but there was neither boil nor gurgle on the water, nor even a bell of departing breath, to mark the place where his beloved had sunk.

bells （ plural ）