…a city in southwestern California, southeast of Los Angeles; population 36,657 (est. 2008)…
… Currer, Ellis, and Acton, the pseudonyms used by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë…
…a hollow metal object, typically in the shape of a deep inverted cup widening at the lip, that sounds a clear musical note when struck, especially by means of a clapper inside…
…(in boxing and other sports) a bell rung to mark the start or end of a round…
…(1847–1922), Scottish-born American scientist. He invented a method for transmitting speech electrically and gave the first public demonstration of the telephone in 1876; he founded the Bell Telephone Company the following year…
…(1868–1926), English archaeologist, traveller, and supporter of Arab independence; full name Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell…
…(1879–1961), English painter and designer; born Vanessa Stephen. Together with her sister Virginia Woolf she was a prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group…
…a unit used in the comparison of power levels in electrical communication or of intensities of sound, corresponding to an intensity ratio of 10 to 1…
…paralysis of the facial nerve causing muscular weakness in one side of the face…
…a nickname for any of the telephone companies created in 1984 from the breakup of American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, which was nicknamed “Ma Bell.”…
…a buoy equipped with a bell rung by the motion of the sea, warning shipping of shallow waters…
…a bell-shaped glass cover used in a laboratory, typically for enclosing samples…
…a cord or handle which rings a bell when pulled, typically used to summon someone from another room…
…a short bar with a weight at each end, used typically in pairs for exercise or muscle-building…
…a lever with two arms which have a common fulcrum at their junction…
…a graph of a normal (Gaussian) distribution, with a large rounded peak tapering away at each end…
…a bell-shaped glass cover used, especially formerly, as a cloche…
…an alloy of copper and tin for making bells, with a higher tin content than in bronze…
…an open-bottomed chamber supplied with air, in which a person can be let down under water…
…a bell kept at Lloyd’s in London and rung whenever there is an important announcement to be made to the underwriters. It was salvaged from HMS Lutine, which sank in 1799 with a large cargo of gold and bullion…
…(in South Africa) a large bell hung between two whitewashed pillars, formerly used to summon slaves and mark the beginning and end of work periods…
…a city east of Los Angeles, California; population 44,692 (est. 2008)…
…a common European heather with relatively large purplish-red flowers…
…(in Britain) a bell rung in Parliament to announce an imminent division…
…a bell in Philadelphia first rung on 8 July 1776 to celebrate the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence. It bears the legend ‘Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof’ (Leviticus 25:10)…
…a bell rung immediately after a death as a signal for prayers…
…a bell rung in some Christian churches at certain points during the Mass or Eucharist, especially at the elevation of the consecrated elements…
…paralysis of the facial nerve causing muscular weakness in one side of the face…
…a tall, sturdy cultivated bellflower with large pale blue flowers…
…(in boxing and other sports) be saved from being counted out by the ringing of the bell at the end of a round…
…a tropical American bird of the cotinga family, with a loud explosive call…
…an attendant in a hotel who performs services such as carrying guests' luggage…
