The difference between Bell and Tongue

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 tongue means the flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.

When used as verbs, bell means to attach a bell to, whereas tongue means on a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).

check bellow for the other definitions of Bell and Tongue

  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. Tongue as a noun:

    The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.

  2. Tongue as a noun (countable, uncountable):

    This organ, as taken from animals used for food (especially cows).−

    Examples:

    "cold tongue with mustard"

  3. Tongue as a noun (metonym):

    A language.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: idiom language lingo qualifier colloquial"

    "He was speaking in his native tongue."

  4. Tongue as a noun (obsolete):

    Speakers of a language, collectively.

  5. Tongue as a noun (obsolete):

    Voice ; accent .

  6. Tongue as a noun:

    Manner of speaking, often habitually.

  7. Tongue as a noun (metonym):

    A person speaking in a specified manner (most often plural).

  8. Tongue as a noun:

    The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.

  9. Tongue as a noun (obsolete):

    Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

  10. Tongue as a noun (obsolete, uncountable):

    Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

  11. Tongue as a noun (obsolete):

    Honourable discourse; eulogy.

  12. Tongue as a noun (religion, often in the plural):

    Glossolalia.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: speaking in tongues"

  13. Tongue as a noun:

    In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).

  14. Tongue as a noun:

    Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.

  15. Tongue as a noun:

    A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.

    Examples:

    "the tongue of a [[buckle]], or of a [[balance]]"

  16. Tongue as a noun:

    A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.

  17. Tongue as a noun:

    The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.

  18. Tongue as a noun:

    The clapper of a bell.

  19. Tongue as a noun (figuratively):

    An individual point of flame from a fire.

  20. Tongue as a noun:

    A small sole (type of fish).

  21. Tongue as a noun (nautical):

    A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.

  22. Tongue as a noun (music):

    A reed.

  1. Tongue as a verb (music, ambitransitive):

    On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).

    Examples:

    "Playing wind instruments involves tonguing on the reed or mouthpiece."

  2. Tongue as a verb (slang):

    To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex.

  3. Tongue as a verb:

    To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.

    Examples:

    "a soil horizon that tongues into clay"

  4. Tongue as a verb:

    To join by means of a tongue and groove.

    Examples:

    "to tongue boards together"

  5. Tongue as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To talk; to prate.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Dryden"

  6. Tongue as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To speak; to utter.

  7. Tongue as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To chide; to scold.

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