单词 | doorbell |
释义 | doorbelln. a. A bell in a house, connected with the door by a wire, and rung by means of a handle. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > ringing of bells as signal > [noun] > door-bell doorbella1817 buzzer1934 door chimes1962 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of door > [noun] > door fittings > door-bell door-ringa1674 doorbella1817 buzzer1934 door chimes1962 a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. ii. 30 Lady Russell could not hear the door-bell . View more context for this quotation b. A bell fixed on a door or door-case so as to be rung in opening the door; = door-alarm n. at door n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1875 Talmage Around Tea-table ii. 8 The storm was so great that the door-bell went to sleep. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021). > as lemmasdoorbell 2. With various words prefixed to describe its shape, material, etc., or define its use, as alarm bell n., bridle-bell, clock-bell, curfew-bell, dinner-bell, doorbell, handbell, marriage-bell, night-bell, sheep-bell, town-bell; and esp. in ecclesiastical use, as bearing-bell, houseling-bell, lich-bell, sacring-bell, sanctus-bell or saunce-bell; death-bell n. a bell tolled to announce a death., passing-bell n. = death-bell n.See also church bell n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > signal marking the time > [noun] > bell, gun, etc. undern-bella1400 bell1422 clock-bell1508 minute-gun1728 hour-bell1785 ghurry1816 society > faith > artefacts > furniture > bell > [noun] church belleOE wakerell1485 bearing-bell1508 houseling-bell1508 lich-bell1508 sacring-bell1508 sanctus-bell1508 1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 217 Ane benefice, quha wald gyue sic ane beste, Bot gif it war to gyngill Iudas bellis? 1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. sig. c.iiijv Pardon Beades, Tanthonie belles, Tauthrie laces. 1552–3 Inv. Ch. Goods Staffords. (passim) Bearing-bell, clock-bell, hand-bell, houseling-bell, lyche-bell, sacring-bell, sanctus-bell, visiting-bell. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. iv. 4 The Curfewe bell hath rung. View more context for this quotation a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 36 Thou a passing bell, 'Gainst their transgressions did so loudly knell. 1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III xxi. 13 And all went merry as a marriage-bell. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 40 Every word fell on Butler's ear like the knell of a death-bell. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Lady of Shalott iii, in Poems (new ed.) 13 The bridle-bells rang merrily. 1861 Romance Dull L. xlviii. 358 Listening to the idly busy sound of sheep-bells. 1863 H. W. Longfellow Falcon Federigo 110 A passing bell Tolled from the tower. < as lemmas |
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