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Bell

A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.

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Narrower term 5

Angelus 76% connected

A form of devotion in which three Ave Marias are repeated. It is said at morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of a bell.

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Carillon 76% connected

A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys.

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Cascabel 76% connected

The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all i…

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Knell 76% connected

The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively, a warning of, or a sound in…

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Tocsin 76% connected

An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of alarm.

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Broader term 6

Attach 76% connected

To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like.

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Button 76% connected

A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.

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Curve 76% connected

Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.

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Opening 76% connected

of Open

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Push 76% connected

A pustule; a pimple.

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Sound 76% connected

The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.

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Bombilate 74% connected

To hum; to buzz.

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Bombilate 74% connected

To hum; to buzz.

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Buzz 74% connected

To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Buzz 74% connected

To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Chime 74% connected

See Chine, n., 3.

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Chime 74% connected

See Chine, n., 3.

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Containing whole 3

Blunderbuss 70% connected

A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim.

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Funnel 70% connected

A vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids into a close vessel; a tunnel.

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Wind 70% connected

To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twin…

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Clapper 70% connected

A person who claps.

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Tongue 70% connected

an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.

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Synonym 5

Buzzer 92% connected

One who, or that which, buzzes; a whisperer; a talebearer.

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Campana 92% connected

A church bell.

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Chime 92% connected

See Chine, n., 3.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gong 92% connected

A privy or jakes.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Toll 92% connected

To take away; to vacate; to annul.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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