Air cell
() A cavity in the cellular tissue of plants, containing air only. |
Air cell
() A receptacle of air in various parts of the system |
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 |
Cell
(n.) A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent |
Cell
(n.) A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent. |
Cell
(n.) Any small cavity, or hollow place. |
Cell
(n.) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof. |
Cell
(n.) Same as Cella. |
Cell
(n.) A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery. |
Cell
(n.) One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed. |
Cell
(v. t.) To place or inclose in a cell. |
Dumb-bell
(n.) A weight, consisting of two spheres or spheroids, connected by a short bar for a handle |
Purkinje's cells
() Large ganglion cells forming a layer near the surface of the cerebellum. |
Ringing
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ring |
Ringing
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ring |
Ringing
() a & n. from Ring, v. |
Sance-bell
(n.) Alt. of Sancte bell |
Sancte bell
(n.) See Sanctus bell, under Sanctus. |
Water cell
() A cell containing water |
| cell | (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms, they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals |
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 |
| change ringing | ringing tuned bells in a fixed order that is continually changing |
somatic cell nuclear transplantation
somatic cell nuclear transfer
SCNT
nuclear transplantation | moving a cell nucleus and its genetic material from one cell to another |
| cell-mediated immune response | an immune response (chiefly against viral or fungal invasions or transplanted tissue) that involves T cells |
| flame cell | organ of excretion in flatworms |
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 |
| flagellated cell | any cell or oneelled organism equipped with a flagellum |
choanocyte
collar cell | any of the flagellated cells in sponges having a collar of cytoplasm around the flagellum, they maintain a flow of water through the body |
| 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 |
bullpen
detention cell
detention centre | a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily |
cell
electric cell | a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction |
cell jail cell
prison cell | a room where a prisoner is kept |
| cell cubicle | small room in which a monk or nun lives |
| cell | any small compartment, the cells of a honeycomb |
cellular telephone
cellular phone
cellphone
cell mobile phone | a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own shortange transmitter
receiver |
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 |
Clark cell
Clark standard cell | a form of voltaic cell once used as a standard for electromotive force |
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 |
| dry cell | a small Leclanche cell containing no free liquid, the electrolyte is a paste and the negative zinc pole forms the container of the cell, used in flashlights, portable radios, etc. |
| electric bell | a bell activated by the magnetic effect of an electric current |
| electrolytic cell | a cell containing an electrolyte in which an applied voltage causes a reaction to occur that would not occur otherwise (such as the breakdown of water into hydrogen and oxygen) |
| fire bell | a bell rung to give a fire alarm |
| fuel cell | cell that produces electricity by oxidation of fuel (hydrogen and oxygen or zinc and air), often used in electric cars |
| holding cell | a jail in a courthouse where accused persons can be confined during a trial |
| Kerr cell | optical device consisting of a transparent cell with two electrodes between two polarizing media, passes light only if the two planes of polarization are parallel, used as a high-speed shutter or to modulate a laser beam |
| Leclanche cell | voltaic cell that produces approximately . volts |
| Liberty Bell | the bell of Independence Hall, rung July to announce the signing of the Declaration of Independence |
| mercury cell | a primary cell consisting of a zinc anode and a cathode of mercury oxide and an electrolyte of potassium hydroxide |
| night bell | a doorbell to be used at night |
photoelectric cell
photoconductive cell
photocell
electric eye
magic eye | a transducer used to detect and measure light and other radiations |
| school bell | a bell rung to announce beginning or ending of class |