bell vs uvula

bell

noun
  • The sounding of a bell as a signal. 

  • 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. 

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

  • 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. 

uvula

noun
  • an object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clapper 

  • the slight elevation in the mucous membrane immediately behind the internal urethral orifice of the urinary bladder, caused by the middle lobe of the prostate 

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