bell vs pullout

bell

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

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut. 

  • Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch) 

  • A telephone call. 

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

  • The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument. 

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

  • The bell character. 

  • The sounding of a bell as a signal. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To attach a bell to. 

  • To bellow or roar. 

  • To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth. 

  • To telephone. 

  • To shape so that it flares out like a bell. 

  • To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom. 

pullout

noun
  • An object, such as a newspaper supplement, that can be pulled out from something else. 

  • The ending of a period of surfing by navigating the board into or over the back of a wave. 

  • The coitus interruptus method of birth control. 

  • The change of the flight of an aircraft from a dive to level or climbing flight. 

  • A withdrawal, especially of armed forces. 

  • Synonym of liftout (“quotation given special visual treatment”) 

  • An area by the side of a road where vehicles may temporarily stop in safety. Typical pullouts allow drivers and passengers to safely exit the vehicle but rarely have additional amenities. 

How often have the words bell and pullout occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )