The difference between Bell and Carilloneur
When used as nouns, bell means 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, whereas carilloneur means someone who plays the carillon.
Bell is also verb with the meaning: to attach a bell to.
check bellow for the other definitions of Bell and Carilloneur
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Bell as a noun:
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.
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Bell as a noun:
The sounding of a bell as a signal.
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Bell as a noun (chiefly, British, informal):
A telephone call.
Examples:
"I’ll give you a bell later."
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Bell as a noun:
A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
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Bell as a noun (music):
The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
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Bell as a noun (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)
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Bell as a noun:
The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
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Bell as a noun (computing):
A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.).
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Bell as a noun:
Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
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Bell as a noun (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.
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Bell as a noun:
An instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar, used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.
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Bell as a verb (transitive):
To attach a bell to.
Examples:
"Who will bell the cat?"
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Bell as a verb (transitive):
To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
Examples:
"to bell a tube"
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Bell as a verb (slang, transitive):
To telephone.
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Bell as a verb (intransitive):
To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
Examples:
"Hops bell."
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Bell as a verb (intransitive):
To bellow or roar.
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Bell as a verb (transitive):
To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
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Bell as a noun:
The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
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Carilloneur as a noun:
someone who plays the carillon; a carillonist
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