The difference between Bell and Trumpet

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 trumpet means a musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of b-flat.

When used as verbs, bell means to attach a bell to, whereas trumpet means to sound loudly, be amplified.

check bellow for the other definitions of Bell and Trumpet

  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. Trumpet as a noun (musical instrument):

    A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.

    Examples:

    "The royal herald sounded a trumpet to announce their arrival."

  2. Trumpet as a noun:

    In an orchestra or other musical group, a musician who plays the trumpet.

    Examples:

    "The trumpets were assigned to stand at the rear of the orchestra pit."

  3. Trumpet as a noun:

    The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.

    Examples:

    "The large bull gave a basso trumpet as he charged the hunters."

  4. Trumpet as a noun (figurative):

    One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.

    Examples:

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  5. Trumpet as a noun:

    A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.

  6. Trumpet as a noun:

    A kind of traffic interchange involving at least one loop ramp connecting traffic either entering or leaving the terminating expressway with the far lanes of the continuous highway.

  7. Trumpet as a noun:

    A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.

  1. Trumpet as a verb (intransitive):

    To sound loudly, be amplified

    Examples:

    "The music trumpeted from the speakers, hurting my ears."

  2. Trumpet as a verb (intransitive):

    To play the trumpet.

    Examples:

    "Cedric made a living trumpeting for the change of passersby in the subway."

  3. Trumpet as a verb (ambitransitive):

    Of an elephant, to make its cry.

    Examples:

    "The circus trainer cracked the whip, signaling the elephant to trumpet."

  4. Trumpet as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To give a loud cry like that of an elephant.

  5. Trumpet as a verb (transitive):

    To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically

    Examples:

    "Andy trumpeted Jane's secret across the school, much to her embarrassment."

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