Synonyms of the word

bell

• n. A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of…
• n. The sounding of a bell as a signal.
• n. (chiefly Britain, informal) A telephone call.
• n. A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
• n. (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
• n. (nautical) Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time…
• n. The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
• n. (computing) A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older…
• n. Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
• n. (architecture) The part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also…
• n. An instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar, used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.
• v. (transitive) To attach a bell to.
• v. (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
• v. (slang, transitive) To telephone.
• v. (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
• v. (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
• n. The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.

artificer

• n. Someone who is skilled in their trade; an artisan.
• n. An inventor.
• n. A member of the military who specializes in manufacturing and repairing weapon systems.
• n. A trickster.
• n. A savant.

attach

• v. (obsolete, law) To arrest, seize.
• v. (transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
• v. (intransitive) To adhere; to be attached.
• v. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
• v. To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral…
• v. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
• v. (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.

button

• n. A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
• n. A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or…
• n. (graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
• n. (US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
• n. (botany) A bud.
• n. (slang) The clitoris.
• n. (curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.
• n. (fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
• n. (poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
• n. (poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
• n. A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement marking painted stripe.
• n. (South Africa, slang) A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
• n. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something,…
• n. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
• n. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
• n. A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
• n. (Britain, archaic) A unit of length equal to 1/12 of an inch.
• v. (transitive) To fasten with a button.
• v. (intransitive) To be fastened by a button or buttons.

buzzer

• n. One who, or that which, buzzes; an insect that buzzes.
• n. A device that makes a buzzing sound.
• n. (US slang) A police badge.
• n. (obsolete) A gossip.

campana

• n. A church bell, particularly a large bell used in medieval church steeples or towers.
• n. A bell-shaped vase.
• n. (obsolete, botany) A bell-shaped flower, particularly the pasque flower.
• n. (obsolete, architecture) The body of a capital of the Corinthian order.
• n. (obsolete, architecture) A drop of a Doric architrave.

chime

• n. (music) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar)…
• n. An individual ringing component of such a set.
• n. A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
• n. The sound of such an instrument or device.
• n. A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.
• v. (intransitive) To make the sound of a chime.
• v. (transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in…
• v. (transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
• v. (intransitive) To agree; to correspond.
• v. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
• n. A chine; the edge of a cask.

curve

• adj. (obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
• n. A gentle bend, such as in a road.
• n. A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
• n. A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution…
• n. (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
• n. (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional…
• n. (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
• n. (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
• n. (informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
• v. (transitive) To bend; to crook.
• v. (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
• v. (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
• v. To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
• v. (slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.

discoverer

• n. One who discovers; the person who discovered something.

doorbell

• n. A device on or adjacent to an outer door for announcing one's presence. It can be mechanical, directly…
• n. A button that actives an electric doorbell.
• v. (intransitive) To ring many doorbells in an effort to contact people and thereby spread information or…
• v. (transitive) To ring many doorbells of (target people or an area) in an effort to contact people and thereby…

gong

• n. (music) A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a sonorous sound when struck with…
• n. (Britain, informal) A medal or award.
• v. (intransitive) To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong.
• v. (transitive) To halt or disqualify (a contestant in a talent show) by ringing a gong.
• n. (obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
• n. (obsolete) The contents of an outhouse pit: shit.

inventor

• n. One who invents, either as a hobby or as an occupation.

opening

• v. present participle of open.
• n. An act or instance of making or becoming open.
• n. Something that is open.
• n. An act or instance of beginning.
• n. Something that is a beginning.
• n. A vacant position, especially in an array.
• n. An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
• adj. (cricket) describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing…

painter

• n. An artist who paints pictures.
• n. A laborer or workman who paints surfaces using a paintbrush or other means.
• n. (obsolete) A chain or rope used to attach the shank of an anchor to the side of a ship when not in use.
• n. (nautical) A rope connected to the bow of a boat, used to attach it to e.g. a jetty or another boat.
• n. (US) A mountain lion, by mispronunciation of "panther".

phonetician

• n. A person who specializes in the physiology, acoustics, and perception of speech.
• n. (linguistics) A person who specializes in the study of speech sounds and their representation by written…
• n. (linguistics) A dialectologist; a person who studies regional differences in speech sounds.

push

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or…
• v. (transitive) To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
• v. (transitive) To press or urge forward; to drive.
• v. (transitive) To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).
• v. (informal, transitive) To approach; to come close to.
• v. (intransitive) To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
• v. (intransitive) To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
• v. To make a higher bid at an auction.
• v. (poker) To make an all-in bet.
• v. (chess, transitive) To move (a pawn) directly forward.
• v. (computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
• v. (computing) To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.
• v. (obsolete) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.
• v. To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
• v. (snooker) To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at…
• n. A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.
• n. An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
• n. A great effort (to do something).
• n. An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action.
• n. (military) A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company…
• n. A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score.
• n. (computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
• n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request,…
• n. (dated) A crowd or throng or people.
• n. (snooker) A foul shot in which the cue ball is in contact with the cue and the object ball at the same…
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A pustule; a pimple.

sound

• adj. Healthy.
• adj. Complete, solid, or secure.
• adj. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
• adj. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.
• adj. Heavy; laid on with force.
• adj. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
• adv. Soundly.
• interj. (Britain, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
• n. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
• n. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
• n. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
• n. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound.
• v. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
• v. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
• v. (intransitive, law, often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area…
• v. (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
• v. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
• n. (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting…
• n. The air bladder of a fish.
• n. A cuttlefish.
• v. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.
• v. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try;…
• v. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
• v. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
• n. (medicine) An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde.
• n. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.

toll

• n. Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
• n. A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on…
• n. (business) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
• n. (US) A tollbooth.
• n. (Britain, law, obsolete) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
• n. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
• v. (transitive) To impose a fee for the use of.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To levy a toll on (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) To take as a toll.
• v. To pay a toll or tallage.
• n. The act or sound of tolling.
• v. (ergative) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
• v. (transitive) To summon by ringing a bell.
• v. (transitive) To announce by tolling.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To draw; pull; tug; drag.
• v. (transitive) To tear in pieces.
• v. (transitive) To draw; entice; invite; allure.
• v. (transitive) To lure with bait (especially, fish and animals).
• v. (law, obsolete) To take away; to vacate; to annul.
• v. (law) To suspend.