English words for 'Alternative form of belllike.'
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verb
- (figuratively) To make a sound as if made by a bell.
- (transitive) To tear in pieces.
- (law) To suspend.
- (transitive) To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).
- (transitive) To summon by ringing a bell.
- (transitive) To draw; entice; invite; allure.
- (ambitransitive) To levy a toll on (someone or something).
- (transitive) To impose a fee for the use of.
- (transitive) To take as a toll.
- (ergative) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
- (African-American Vernacular) simple past and past participle of tell
- To pay a toll or tallage.
- (transitive) To announce by ringing a bell.
- ring slowly
- charge a fee for using
noun
- (business, by extension) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
- The act or sound of ringing a bell, especially slowly, as with a church or cemetery bell.
- A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.
- (US) A tollbooth.
- Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
- A fee paid by the owner of materials or other goods for processing such goods, as under a tolling agreement.
- value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
- a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges
- the sound of a bell being struck
verb
- (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
- (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To enclose or surround.
- (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
- (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
- To ring up (enter into a cash register or till)
- (transitive, colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
- (Australia, transitive) To ride around (a group of animals, especially cattle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
- (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
- (transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
- (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.
- (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
- (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
- sound loudly and sonorously
- ring or echo with sound
- attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
noun
- The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
- (colloquial) A telephone call.
- (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
- Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
- In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
- (Internet) Ellipsis of webring.
- A circular group of people or objects.
- (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
- (vulgar) The rectum, anus, or anal sphincters.
- (historical) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
- (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
- A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
- An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
- (mathematical analysis, measure theory) A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.
- (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
- (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
- A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
- (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
- A long stripe of contrastive material, colour, etc, that encircles something.
- (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
- (British) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
- A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
- A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
- (jewelry) A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
- (networking) A network topology where connected devices form a circular data channel. All computers on the ring can see every message, and there are no collisions, and a single point of failure will occur if any part of the ring breaks.
- (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
- (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
- (UK) A burner on a kitchen stove.
- The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
- (cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
- (botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
- (UK) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
- (mathematics, order theory) A family of sets closed under finite union and finite intersection.
- a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
- a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle
- (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop
- an association of criminals
- a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
- a characteristic sound
- jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
- the sound of a bell ringing
- a toroidal shape
noun
- (computing) Synonym of bell (“bell character”).
- A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
- (military) A state of readiness for potential combat.
- An alarm.
- condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action
- a warning serves to make you more alert to danger
- an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
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noun
verb
- (transitive, informal, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse with (someone), referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts.
- (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- (transitive) To contact (someone) via a pager device.
- (intransitive, transitive) To produce a beep sound.
- call, summon, or alert with a beeper
- make a strident noise
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noun
verb
noun
- (slang) The clang of a large bell.
- An act of smoking one serving of drugs from a bong.
- A very wide piton.
- A device for rapidly consuming beer, usually consisting of a funnel or reservoir of beer and a length of tubing.
- (slang) Doorbell chimes.
- (ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal person.
- (Internet slang, derogatory) Clipping of Britbong
- A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances, especially cannabis.
- Alternative spelling of bung (“purse”).
- a dull resonant sound as of a bell
noun
- (dialectal) The tolling of a bell; knell.
- A cut of fish including the head and adjacent parts
- The cheek; especially the cheek meat of a hog.
- (dialectal) A blow, bump, knock.
- The jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.
- A fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin).
- the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth
- a fullness and looseness of the flesh of the lower cheek and jaw (characteristic of aging)
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verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To make a high-pitched resonant sound like a bell.
- (intransitive, colloquial, roleplaying games, especially video games) To level up.
- (transitive, golf) To mishit (a golf ball).
- To dash; to throw violently.
- (transitive) To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
- (transitive, colloquial) To fire or reject.
- (transitive) To hit or strike.
- (transitive, colloquial) To deduct, as points, from (somebody), in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
- (transitive) To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
- (Scotland, of rain) To fall heavily and continually, with great force.
- go ‘ding dong’, like a bell
noun
- (Western Australia, offensive, ethnic slur) an Italian person, specifically an Italian Australian
- An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
- (informal) Very minor damage caused by being struck; a small dent or chip.
- (colloquial, roleplaying games, especially video games) The act of levelling up.
- The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.
- (colloquial) A rejection.
- (Hong Kong) An indigenous inhabitant of the New Territories entitled to the building a village house under the Small House Policy.
- a ringing sound
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
noun
- A bell or chime.
- (Australia, slang) A condom.
- One who rings a bell.
- (Australia, slang) A catapult, a shanghai.
- The suspended clapper of a bell.
- (Canada, US, slang) The penis.
- (MLE, slang) An unregistered car.
- (Australia, slang) The buttocks, the anus.
- (US, slang) Something outstanding or exceptional, a humdinger.
- (baseball) A home run.
noun
- The sound made by a bell, an onomatopœia.
- (British, chiefly Scotland) A heap or pile, especially of metallic ore.
- A bounce.
- (chiefly Scotland) A slag heap, i.e. a man-made mound or heap formed with the waste material (slag) as a by-product of coal mining or the shale oil industry.
- The sound made by a bounce.
- (prison slang, with "the") Solitary confinement.
- (chiefly Scotland) The waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound.
intj
verb
noun
- the shape of a bell
- (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 sound of a bell being struck
- a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
- a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
- the flared opening of a tubular device
- a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
- (British, vulgar, slang) Clipping of bell-end (“stupid or contemptible person”).
- Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
- (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.
- (computing) The bell character.
- An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of their presence.
- A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
- (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)
- The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
- (chiefly British, informal) A telephone call.
- (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
- (music) 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.
- The rounded upper part of a jellyfish.
- The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
- The sounding of a bell as a signal.
verb
- (transitive) To attach a bell to.
- attach a bell to
- To ring a bell.
- (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
- (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
- (slang, transitive) To telephone.
- (transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
- (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
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adj
verb
- Of a bell, a drum, etc.: to make a sharp noise, often as a signal.
- (poker) To force (an opponent) to place all their poker chips in the pot (that is, to go all in) by wagering all of one's own chips.
- (informal) To ask or beg for (something) to be given for free; to cadge, to scrounge; also, to ask or beg (someone) to give something for free.
- To cut an external screw thread into (a bolt or rod) to create a screw.
- To draw off (a liquid) from a container or other source; also, to draw off a liquid from (a container or other source).
- (medicine, informal) To drain off fluid from (a person or a body cavity) by paracentesis.
- (chiefly US, informal) To choose or designate (someone) for a duty, an honour, membership of an organization, or a position.
- (slang) To shoot (someone or something) with a firearm.
- (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with (someone).
- (combat sports) To submit to an opponent, chiefly by indicating an intention to do so by striking a hand on the ground several times; to tap out.
- Often followed by at or on: to strike lightly with a clear sound; also, to make a sharp noise through this action.
- (communication, chiefly law enforcement) To connect a listening and/or recording device to (a communication cable or device) in order to listen in secretly on telephone calls or other communications; also, to secretly listen in on and/or record (a telephone call or other communication).
- (transitive) To lightly touch a touchscreen, usually an icon or button, to activate a function.
- (slang) Also in the form tap on the shoulder: to arrest (someone).
- To break into or open up (a thing) so as to obtain something; to exploit, to penetrate; tap into.
- To furnish (a container, etc.) with a tap (noun etymology 1 sense 2.2) so that liquid can be drawn.
- To put (a screw or other object) in or through another thing.
- To click on something, usually a device.
- (graphical user interface) To invoke a function on an electronic device such as a mobile phone by touching (a button, icon, or specific location on its touch screen).
- To strike (someone or something), chiefly lightly with a clear sound, but sometimes hard.
- To walk by striking the ground lightly with a clear sound.
- (combat sports) To force (an opponent) to submit, chiefly by indicating their intention to do so by striking a hand on the ground several times; to tap out.
- (British, dialectal or US) To repair (an item of footwear) by putting on a new heel or sole, or a piece of material on to the heel or sole.
- To (lightly) touch (a finger, foot, or other body part) on a surface, often repeatedly.
- To deplete (something); to tap out.
- To act as a tapster; to draw an alcoholic beverage from a container.
- (horticulture) To remove a taproot from (a plant).
- (board games, card games) To turn over (a playing card or playing piece) to remind players that it has already been used in that round.
- To cut an internal screw thread in (a hole); also, to cut (an internal screw thread) in a hole, or to create an internally threaded hole in (something).
- (transitive) To lightly and repeatedly touch (a person or one or more body parts) as part of various forms of psychological treatment.
- make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently
- draw (liquor) from a tap
- tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
- cut a female screw thread with a tap
- draw from or dip into to get something
- pierce in order to draw a liquid from
- dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes
- furnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid from it
- make light, repeated taps on a surface
- strike lightly
- draw from; make good use of
- walk with a tapping sound
noun
- A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls or other communications.
- (graphical user interface) An act of touching a button, icon, or specific location on the touch screen of an electronic device such as a mobile phone to invoke a function.
- (informal, minimizer, chiefly in the negative) The smallest amount of work; a stroke of work.
- A conical peg or pin used to close and open the hole or vent in a container.
- (British) Ellipsis of taphouse or taproom (“place where alcoholic beverages are served on tap”).
- (British, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering) A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it; a tapping.
- (uncountable, dance) Ellipsis of tap dance.
- A secret interception of telephone calls or other communications using such a device; also, a recording of such a communication.
- (medicine, informal) A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity; paracentesis.
- (British, dialectal or US) A piece of leather or other material fastened upon the bottom of an item of footwear when repairing the heel or sole; also (England, dialectal) the sole of an item of footwear.
- (phonetics) A single muscle contraction in vocal organs causing a consonant sound; also, the sound so made.
- (dance) One of the metal pieces attached to the sole of a tap dancer's shoe at the toe and heel to cause a tapping sound.
- A light blow or strike with a clear sound; a gentle rap; a pat; also, the sound made by such a blow or strike.
- (firearms, slang) A shot fired from a firearm.
- (mechanics) A cylindrical tool used to cut an internal screw thread in a hole, with cutting edges around the lower end and an upper end to which a handle is fitted to turn the tool.
- An object with a tapering conical form like a tap (etymology 1 sense 1); specifically, ellipsis of taproot (“long, tapering root of a plant”).
- A hollow device used to control the flow of a fluid, such as an alcoholic beverage from a cask, or a gas or liquid in a pipe.
- (finance) A situation where a borrowing government authority issues bonds over a period of time, usually at a fixed price, with volumes sold on a particular day dependent on market conditions.
- (India, chiefly East India) A malarial fever.
- Liquor drawn through a tap (etymology 1 sense 2.2); hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; also (figurative, informal), a certain kind or quality of any thing.
- a light touch or stroke
- a plug for a bunghole in a cask
- the sound made by a gentle blow
- a tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads
- a gentle blow
- a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask
- a small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing)
- the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information
noun
noun
- A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
- (slang) An unspecified amount of money.
- A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
- A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
- The docked tail of a horse.
- A bobsleigh.
- A curtsy.
- Clipping of shishkabob.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- A bob haircut.
- The short runner of a sled.
- A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
- A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
- Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it.
- A bobber (buoyant fishing device).
- The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
- A working beam in a steam engine.
- (computer graphics, demoscene) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
- a hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string
- a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
- a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
- a hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around
- a former monetary unit in Great Britain
- a short abrupt inclination (as of the head)
verb
- (transitive) To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.
- (transitive) To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
- To bobsleigh.
- (intransitive) Synonym of blob (“catch eels using worms strung on thread”).
- To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
- (intransitive) To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium.
- (transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
- (with on) To perform oral sex on someone.
- To curtsy.
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- ride a bobsled
- cut hair in the style of a bob
- make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect
- move up and down repeatedly in a quick, short movement
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- (colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.
- (transitive, calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
- (intransitive) To release dung: to defecate.
- (transitive) To fertilize with dung.
- fertilize or dress with dung
- defecate; used of animals
noun
- (computing) Synonym of bell (“bell character”).
- A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
- (military) A state of readiness for potential combat.
- An alarm.
- condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action
- a warning serves to make you more alert to danger
- an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
adj
verb
noun
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- (transitive, informal, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse with (someone), referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts.
- (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- (transitive) To contact (someone) via a pager device.
- (intransitive, transitive) To produce a beep sound.
- call, summon, or alert with a beeper
- make a strident noise
verb
- (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
- (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To enclose or surround.
- (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
- (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
- To ring up (enter into a cash register or till)
- (transitive, colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
- (Australia, transitive) To ride around (a group of animals, especially cattle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
- (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
- (transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
- (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.
- (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
- (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
- sound loudly and sonorously
- ring or echo with sound
- attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
noun
- The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
- (colloquial) A telephone call.
- (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
- Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
- In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
- (Internet) Ellipsis of webring.
- A circular group of people or objects.
- (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
- (vulgar) The rectum, anus, or anal sphincters.
- (historical) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
- (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
- A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
- An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
- (mathematical analysis, measure theory) A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.
- (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
- (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
- A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
- (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
- A long stripe of contrastive material, colour, etc, that encircles something.
- (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
- (British) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
- A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
- A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
- (jewelry) A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
- (networking) A network topology where connected devices form a circular data channel. All computers on the ring can see every message, and there are no collisions, and a single point of failure will occur if any part of the ring breaks.
- (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
- (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
- (UK) A burner on a kitchen stove.
- The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
- (cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
- (botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
- (UK) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
- (mathematics, order theory) A family of sets closed under finite union and finite intersection.
- a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
- a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle
- (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop
- an association of criminals
- a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
- a characteristic sound
- jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
- the sound of a bell ringing
- a toroidal shape
noun
- (dialectal) The tolling of a bell; knell.
- A cut of fish including the head and adjacent parts
- The cheek; especially the cheek meat of a hog.
- (dialectal) A blow, bump, knock.
- The jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.
- A fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin).
- the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth
- a fullness and looseness of the flesh of the lower cheek and jaw (characteristic of aging)
verb
noun
- A bell or chime.
- (Australia, slang) A condom.
- One who rings a bell.
- (Australia, slang) A catapult, a shanghai.
- The suspended clapper of a bell.
- (Canada, US, slang) The penis.
- (MLE, slang) An unregistered car.
- (Australia, slang) The buttocks, the anus.
- (US, slang) Something outstanding or exceptional, a humdinger.
- (baseball) A home run.
noun
- The sound made by a bell, an onomatopœia.
- (British, chiefly Scotland) A heap or pile, especially of metallic ore.
- A bounce.
- (chiefly Scotland) A slag heap, i.e. a man-made mound or heap formed with the waste material (slag) as a by-product of coal mining or the shale oil industry.
- The sound made by a bounce.
- (prison slang, with "the") Solitary confinement.
- (chiefly Scotland) The waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound.
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noun
- the shape of a bell
- (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 sound of a bell being struck
- a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
- a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
- the flared opening of a tubular device
- a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
- (British, vulgar, slang) Clipping of bell-end (“stupid or contemptible person”).
- Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
- (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.
- (computing) The bell character.
- An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of their presence.
- A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
- (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)
- The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
- (chiefly British, informal) A telephone call.
- (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
- (music) 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.
- The rounded upper part of a jellyfish.
- The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
- The sounding of a bell as a signal.
verb
- (transitive) To attach a bell to.
- attach a bell to
- To ring a bell.
- (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
- (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
- (slang, transitive) To telephone.
- (transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
- (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
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- A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
- (slang) An unspecified amount of money.
- A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
- A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
- The docked tail of a horse.
- A bobsleigh.
- A curtsy.
- Clipping of shishkabob.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- A bob haircut.
- The short runner of a sled.
- A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
- A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
- Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it.
- A bobber (buoyant fishing device).
- The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
- A working beam in a steam engine.
- (computer graphics, demoscene) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
- a hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string
- a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
- a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
- a hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around
- a former monetary unit in Great Britain
- a short abrupt inclination (as of the head)
verb
- (transitive) To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.
- (transitive) To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
- To bobsleigh.
- (intransitive) Synonym of blob (“catch eels using worms strung on thread”).
- To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
- (intransitive) To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium.
- (transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
- (with on) To perform oral sex on someone.
- To curtsy.
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- ride a bobsled
- cut hair in the style of a bob
- make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect
- move up and down repeatedly in a quick, short movement
verb
noun
- (slang) The clang of a large bell.
- An act of smoking one serving of drugs from a bong.
- A very wide piton.
- A device for rapidly consuming beer, usually consisting of a funnel or reservoir of beer and a length of tubing.
- (slang) Doorbell chimes.
- (ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal person.
- (Internet slang, derogatory) Clipping of Britbong
- A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances, especially cannabis.
- Alternative spelling of bung (“purse”).
- a dull resonant sound as of a bell
verb
- (figuratively) To make a sound as if made by a bell.
- (transitive) To tear in pieces.
- (law) To suspend.
- (transitive) To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).
- (transitive) To summon by ringing a bell.
- (transitive) To draw; entice; invite; allure.
- (ambitransitive) To levy a toll on (someone or something).
- (transitive) To impose a fee for the use of.
- (transitive) To take as a toll.
- (ergative) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
- (African-American Vernacular) simple past and past participle of tell
- To pay a toll or tallage.
- (transitive) To announce by ringing a bell.
- ring slowly
- charge a fee for using
noun
- (business, by extension) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
- The act or sound of ringing a bell, especially slowly, as with a church or cemetery bell.
- A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.
- (US) A tollbooth.
- Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
- A fee paid by the owner of materials or other goods for processing such goods, as under a tolling agreement.
- value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
- a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges
- the sound of a bell being struck
verb
- (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
- (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To enclose or surround.
- (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
- (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
- To ring up (enter into a cash register or till)
- (transitive, colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
- (Australia, transitive) To ride around (a group of animals, especially cattle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
- (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
- (transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
- (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.
- (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
- (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
- sound loudly and sonorously
- ring or echo with sound
- attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
noun
- The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
- (colloquial) A telephone call.
- (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
- Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
- In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
- (Internet) Ellipsis of webring.
- A circular group of people or objects.
- (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
- (vulgar) The rectum, anus, or anal sphincters.
- (historical) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
- (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
- A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
- An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
- (mathematical analysis, measure theory) A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.
- (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
- (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
- A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
- (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
- A long stripe of contrastive material, colour, etc, that encircles something.
- (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
- (British) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
- A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
- A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
- (jewelry) A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
- (networking) A network topology where connected devices form a circular data channel. All computers on the ring can see every message, and there are no collisions, and a single point of failure will occur if any part of the ring breaks.
- (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
- (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
- (UK) A burner on a kitchen stove.
- The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
- (cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
- (botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
- (UK) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
- (mathematics, order theory) A family of sets closed under finite union and finite intersection.
- a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
- a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle
- (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop
- an association of criminals
- a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
- a characteristic sound
- jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
- the sound of a bell ringing
- a toroidal shape
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noun
verb
noun
- (slang) The clang of a large bell.
- An act of smoking one serving of drugs from a bong.
- A very wide piton.
- A device for rapidly consuming beer, usually consisting of a funnel or reservoir of beer and a length of tubing.
- (slang) Doorbell chimes.
- (ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal person.
- (Internet slang, derogatory) Clipping of Britbong
- A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances, especially cannabis.
- Alternative spelling of bung (“purse”).
- a dull resonant sound as of a bell
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- (dialectal) The tolling of a bell; knell.
- A cut of fish including the head and adjacent parts
- The cheek; especially the cheek meat of a hog.
- (dialectal) A blow, bump, knock.
- The jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.
- A fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin).
- the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth
- a fullness and looseness of the flesh of the lower cheek and jaw (characteristic of aging)
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- (intransitive) To make a high-pitched resonant sound like a bell.
- (intransitive, colloquial, roleplaying games, especially video games) To level up.
- (transitive, golf) To mishit (a golf ball).
- To dash; to throw violently.
- (transitive) To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
- (transitive, colloquial) To fire or reject.
- (transitive) To hit or strike.
- (transitive, colloquial) To deduct, as points, from (somebody), in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
- (transitive) To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
- (Scotland, of rain) To fall heavily and continually, with great force.
- go ‘ding dong’, like a bell
noun
- (Western Australia, offensive, ethnic slur) an Italian person, specifically an Italian Australian
- An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
- (informal) Very minor damage caused by being struck; a small dent or chip.
- (colloquial, roleplaying games, especially video games) The act of levelling up.
- The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.
- (colloquial) A rejection.
- (Hong Kong) An indigenous inhabitant of the New Territories entitled to the building a village house under the Small House Policy.
- a ringing sound
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
verb
- Of a bell, a drum, etc.: to make a sharp noise, often as a signal.
- (poker) To force (an opponent) to place all their poker chips in the pot (that is, to go all in) by wagering all of one's own chips.
- (informal) To ask or beg for (something) to be given for free; to cadge, to scrounge; also, to ask or beg (someone) to give something for free.
- To cut an external screw thread into (a bolt or rod) to create a screw.
- To draw off (a liquid) from a container or other source; also, to draw off a liquid from (a container or other source).
- (medicine, informal) To drain off fluid from (a person or a body cavity) by paracentesis.
- (chiefly US, informal) To choose or designate (someone) for a duty, an honour, membership of an organization, or a position.
- (slang) To shoot (someone or something) with a firearm.
- (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with (someone).
- (combat sports) To submit to an opponent, chiefly by indicating an intention to do so by striking a hand on the ground several times; to tap out.
- Often followed by at or on: to strike lightly with a clear sound; also, to make a sharp noise through this action.
- (communication, chiefly law enforcement) To connect a listening and/or recording device to (a communication cable or device) in order to listen in secretly on telephone calls or other communications; also, to secretly listen in on and/or record (a telephone call or other communication).
- (transitive) To lightly touch a touchscreen, usually an icon or button, to activate a function.
- (slang) Also in the form tap on the shoulder: to arrest (someone).
- To break into or open up (a thing) so as to obtain something; to exploit, to penetrate; tap into.
- To furnish (a container, etc.) with a tap (noun etymology 1 sense 2.2) so that liquid can be drawn.
- To put (a screw or other object) in or through another thing.
- To click on something, usually a device.
- (graphical user interface) To invoke a function on an electronic device such as a mobile phone by touching (a button, icon, or specific location on its touch screen).
- To strike (someone or something), chiefly lightly with a clear sound, but sometimes hard.
- To walk by striking the ground lightly with a clear sound.
- (combat sports) To force (an opponent) to submit, chiefly by indicating their intention to do so by striking a hand on the ground several times; to tap out.
- (British, dialectal or US) To repair (an item of footwear) by putting on a new heel or sole, or a piece of material on to the heel or sole.
- To (lightly) touch (a finger, foot, or other body part) on a surface, often repeatedly.
- To deplete (something); to tap out.
- To act as a tapster; to draw an alcoholic beverage from a container.
- (horticulture) To remove a taproot from (a plant).
- (board games, card games) To turn over (a playing card or playing piece) to remind players that it has already been used in that round.
- To cut an internal screw thread in (a hole); also, to cut (an internal screw thread) in a hole, or to create an internally threaded hole in (something).
- (transitive) To lightly and repeatedly touch (a person or one or more body parts) as part of various forms of psychological treatment.
- make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently
- draw (liquor) from a tap
- tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
- cut a female screw thread with a tap
- draw from or dip into to get something
- pierce in order to draw a liquid from
- dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes
- furnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid from it
- make light, repeated taps on a surface
- strike lightly
- draw from; make good use of
- walk with a tapping sound
noun
- A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls or other communications.
- (graphical user interface) An act of touching a button, icon, or specific location on the touch screen of an electronic device such as a mobile phone to invoke a function.
- (informal, minimizer, chiefly in the negative) The smallest amount of work; a stroke of work.
- A conical peg or pin used to close and open the hole or vent in a container.
- (British) Ellipsis of taphouse or taproom (“place where alcoholic beverages are served on tap”).
- (British, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering) A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it; a tapping.
- (uncountable, dance) Ellipsis of tap dance.
- A secret interception of telephone calls or other communications using such a device; also, a recording of such a communication.
- (medicine, informal) A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity; paracentesis.
- (British, dialectal or US) A piece of leather or other material fastened upon the bottom of an item of footwear when repairing the heel or sole; also (England, dialectal) the sole of an item of footwear.
- (phonetics) A single muscle contraction in vocal organs causing a consonant sound; also, the sound so made.
- (dance) One of the metal pieces attached to the sole of a tap dancer's shoe at the toe and heel to cause a tapping sound.
- A light blow or strike with a clear sound; a gentle rap; a pat; also, the sound made by such a blow or strike.
- (firearms, slang) A shot fired from a firearm.
- (mechanics) A cylindrical tool used to cut an internal screw thread in a hole, with cutting edges around the lower end and an upper end to which a handle is fitted to turn the tool.
- An object with a tapering conical form like a tap (etymology 1 sense 1); specifically, ellipsis of taproot (“long, tapering root of a plant”).
- A hollow device used to control the flow of a fluid, such as an alcoholic beverage from a cask, or a gas or liquid in a pipe.
- (finance) A situation where a borrowing government authority issues bonds over a period of time, usually at a fixed price, with volumes sold on a particular day dependent on market conditions.
- (India, chiefly East India) A malarial fever.
- Liquor drawn through a tap (etymology 1 sense 2.2); hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; also (figurative, informal), a certain kind or quality of any thing.
- a light touch or stroke
- a plug for a bunghole in a cask
- the sound made by a gentle blow
- a tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads
- a gentle blow
- a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask
- a small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing)
- the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information
noun
- the shape of a bell
- (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 sound of a bell being struck
- a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
- a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
- the flared opening of a tubular device
- a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
- (British, vulgar, slang) Clipping of bell-end (“stupid or contemptible person”).
- Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
- (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.
- (computing) The bell character.
- An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of their presence.
- A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
- (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)
- The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
- (chiefly British, informal) A telephone call.
- (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
- (music) 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.
- The rounded upper part of a jellyfish.
- The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
- The sounding of a bell as a signal.
verb
- (transitive) To attach a bell to.
- attach a bell to
- To ring a bell.
- (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
- (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
- (slang, transitive) To telephone.
- (transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
- (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
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