Armature
(n.) Armor |
Armature
(n.) A piece of soft iron used to connect the two poles of a magnet, or electro-magnet, in order to complete the circuit, or to receive and apply the magnetic force. In the ordinary horseshoe magnet, it serves to prevent the dissipation of the magnetic force. |
Armature
(n.) Iron bars or framing employed for the consolidation of a building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc. |
Bell
(n.) A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck. |
Bell
(n.) A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved. |
Bell
(n.) Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower. |
Bell
(n.) That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding |
Bell
(n.) The strikes of the bell which mark the time |
Bell
(v. t.) To put a bell upon |
Bell
(v. t.) To make bell-mouthed |
Bell
(v. i.) To develop bells or corollas |
Bell
(v. t.) To utter by bellowing. |
Bell
(v. i.) To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time |
Bell animalcule
() An infusorian of the family Vorticellidae, common in fresh-water ponds. |
Bell bearer
() A Brazilian leaf hopper (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax. |
Bell crank
() A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery. |
Bell-faced
(a.) Having the striking surface convex |
Bell jar
() A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes |
Bell metal
() A hard alloy or bronze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin |
Bell-mouthed
(a.) Expanding at the mouth |
Bell pepper
() A species of Capsicum, or Guinea pepper (C. annuum). It is the red pepper of the gardens. |
Bell-shaped
(a.) Having the shape of a wide-mouthed bell |
Dumb-bell
(n.) A weight, consisting of two spheres or spheroids, connected by a short bar for a handle |
Sance-bell
(n.) Alt. of Sancte bell |
Sancte bell
(n.) See Sanctus bell, under Sanctus. |
-type
(n.) A combining form signifying impressed form |
Type
(n.) The mark or impression of something |
Type
(n.) Form or character impressed |
Type
(n.) A figure or representation of something to come |
Type
(n.) That which possesses or exemplifies characteristic qualities |
Type
(n.) A general form or structure common to a number of individuals |
Type
(n.) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy |
Type
(n.) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived. |
Type
(n.) A raised letter, figure, accent, or other character, cast in metal or cut in wood, used in printing. |
Type
(n.) Such letters or characters, in general, or the whole quantity of them used in printing, spoken of collectively |
Type
(v. t.) To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand |
Type
(v. t.) To furnish an expression or copy of |
Woodbury-type
(n.) A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing. |
Woodbury-type
(n.) A print from such a plate. |
bell ringer
bull's eye mark home run | something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal, the new advertising campaign was a bell ringer, scored a bull's eye, hit the mark, the president's speech was a home run |
bell ringing
carillon
carillon playing | playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower |
currawong
bell magpie | bluish black fruit-eating bird with a bell-like call |
tailed frog
bell toad
ribbed toad
tailed toad
Ascaphus trui | western North American frog with a taillike copulatory organ |
| armature | coil in which voltage is induced by motion through a magnetic field |
| bell | a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck |
| bell | the flared opening of a tubular device |
| bell arch | a round arch resting on corbels |
bellbottom trousers
bell-bottoms
bellbottom pants | trousers with legs that flare, worn by sailors, absurdly wide hems were fashionable in the s |
bell cote
bell cot | a small shelter for bells, has a gable or shed roof |
| bell deck | a floor under the bells of an open belfry |
| bell foundry | a foundry where bells are cast |
| bell gable | an extension of a gable that serves as a bell cote |
bell jar
bell glass | a bell-shaped glass cover used to protect and display delicate objects or to cover scientific apparatus or to contain gases |
| bell push | a button that is pushed to ring a bell |
bell seat
balloon seat | a seat that has a bell shape (on some th century chairs) |
| bell tent | a bell-shaped tent |
| bell tower | a tower that supports or shelters a bell |
chime
bell gong | a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer, used as an orchestral instrument |
| church bell | a bell in a church tower (usually sounded to summon people to church), church bells were ringing all over town |
death knell
death bell | a bell rung to announce a death |
| dinner bell | a bell rung to announce that dinner has been served |
| diving bell | diving apparatus for underwater work, has an open bottom and is supplied with compressed air |
doorbell
bell buzzer | a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed |
| electric bell | a bell activated by the magnetic effect of an electric current |
| fire bell | a bell rung to give a fire alarm |
| Liberty Bell | the bell of Independence Hall, rung July to announce the signing of the Declaration of Independence |
| night bell | a doorbell to be used at night |
| n-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of electrons |
| p-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of positive holes |
| pump-type pliers | a type of pliers |
| school bell | a bell rung to announce beginning or ending of class |
| sheep bell | a bell hung round the neck of a sheep so that the sheep can be easily located |
| shop bell | a bell attached to the door of a small shop, warns the proprietor that a customer has entered the shop |
sleigh bell
cascabel | a bell attached to a sleigh, or to the harness of a horse that is pulling a sleigh |
| telephone bell | electric bell that rings to signal a call |
tocsin
warning bell | a bell used to sound an alarm |
| type | a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end, produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper, he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up |
type slug
slug | a strip of type metal used for spacing |
wind chime
wind bell | a decorative arrangement of pieces of metal or glass or pottery that hang together loosely so the wind can cause them to tinkle |
body type
somatotype | a category of physique |
asthenic type
ectomorphy | slender, weak, and lightweight |
endomorphy
pyknic type | round, fat, and heavy |
athletic type
mesomorphy | muscular and big-boned |
blood group
blood type | human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens |
A
type A
group A | the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen |
B
type B
group B | the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen |
AB
type AB
group AB | the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens |
O
type O
group O | the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens, people with type O blood are universal donors |
Rh-positive blood type
Rh positive | the blood group (approximately % of people) whose red cells have the Rh factor (Rh antigen) |