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Bell Ringing

Definitions: Bell Ringing

Bell Ringing

Noun

1. The sound of someone playing a set of bells.

2. Persuasion of voters in a political campaign.

3. Playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Bell Ringing

Synonyms: canvassing (n), carillon (n), carillon playing (n), electioneering (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Bell Ringing

English words defined with "bell ringing": Call boy, church bellring, ringingtinkling, tinkly, tintinnabulation. (references)
Specialty definitions using "bell ringing": Ring Down. (references)

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Modern Usage: Bell Ringing

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Screenplays

When I woke up, I -- I could still hear the prison bell ringing. Isn't it strange? (Hold Back Tomorrow; writing credit: Hugo Haas)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Bell Ringing".

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School bell ringing repeatedly.Swiss bell ringing once.
Little brass bell ringing.A large church bell ringing.
School bell ringing to signify the end of class; fire alarm bell ringing.Gas station attendant bell ringing; ding ding.
Ship's bell ringing three times.Ship's bell ringing three times.
Ship's bell ringing three times.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bell Ringing

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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bell ringing school

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Anagrams: Bell Ringing

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-g-g-i-i-l-l-n-n-r"

-2 letters: lingering, rebilling.

-3 letters: bingeing, bringing, gingelli, grilling, libeling, reigning, relining.

-4 letters: belling, bilgier, bilging, billing, binging, birling, brining, gelling, gilling, gingeli, ginnier, girning, inbeing, lingier, niggler, nilling, reining, rilling, ringing.

-5 letters: benign, berlin, bigger, biggie, biggin, biller, billie, binger, gerbil, gibing, gieing, giller, gillie, ginger, ginner, girlie, grille, inlier, leggin, lignin, linger, linier, lining.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bell Ringing


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 6C 6C      52 69 6E 67 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01101100 01101100 00100000 01010010 01101001 01101110 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#32 &#82 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 006C 006C      0052 0069 006E 0067 0069 006E 0067

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36717878252758073758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Sounds
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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