The difference between Bell and Ringer

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 ringer means someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.

Bell is also verb with the meaning: to attach a bell to.

check bellow for the other definitions of Bell and Ringer

  1. 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.

  2. Bell as a noun:

    The sounding of a bell as a signal.

  3. Bell as a noun (chiefly, British, informal):

    A telephone call.

    Examples:

    "I’ll give you a bell later."

  4. Bell as a noun:

    A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.

  5. Bell as a noun (music):

    The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.

  6. 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)

  7. Bell as a noun:

    The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.

  8. Bell as a noun (computing):

    A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.).

  9. Bell as a noun:

    Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.

  10. 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.

  11. Bell as a noun:

    An instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar, used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.

  1. Bell as a verb (transitive):

    To attach a bell to.

    Examples:

    "Who will bell the cat?"

  2. Bell as a verb (transitive):

    To shape so that it flares out like a bell.

    Examples:

    "to bell a tube"

  3. Bell as a verb (slang, transitive):

    To telephone.

  4. Bell as a verb (intransitive):

    To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.

    Examples:

    "Hops bell."

  1. Bell as a verb (intransitive):

    To bellow or roar.

  2. Bell as a verb (transitive):

    To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.

  1. Bell as a noun:

    The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.

  1. Ringer as a noun:

    Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.

  2. Ringer as a noun (mining):

    A crowbar.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Simmonds"

  1. Ringer as a noun (games):

    In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.

  2. Ringer as a noun (uncountable, games):

    A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.

  3. Ringer as a noun:

    A ringer T-shirt.

  1. Ringer as a noun (sport):

    A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: hustler"

  2. Ringer as a noun (horse racing):

    A horse fraudulently entered in a race using the name of another horse.

  3. Ringer as a noun:

    A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other, now usually in the phrase dead ringer.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: dead ringer"

  1. Ringer as a noun (UK, dialect):

    A top performer.

  2. Ringer as a noun (Australia):

    The champion shearer of a shearing shed.

  3. Ringer as a noun (Australia):

    A stockman, a cowboy.

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