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kello — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bell noun A hollow metal instrument, often shaped like a cup, that rings when struck.
  • bong noun A water pipe used for smoking, often cannabis.
  • bugle noun A brass wind instrument without valves, used mainly for military calls, played by adjusting lip pressure to move between notes.
  • chime noun A bell-like instrument, or set of them, that rings out a musical note.
  • chronometer noun A device for measuring time, particularly a precision mechanism for measuring time of day.
  • clock noun A device that displays or measures the time of day.
  • time noun The ongoing flow of existence in which events happen — what clocks and calendars measure in seconds, hours, days and years.
  • timer noun A device that measures or counts down an amount of time.
  • watch noun A small timepiece worn on the wrist or carried in a pocket.

Senses

kello is used for these senses in English:

  • bell (percussion instrument) 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.
  • bellflower Any flowering plants in the genus Campanula.
  • bellflower Flowering plants in the genera, Campanulastrum, Codonopsis, or Platycodon, in the family Campanulaceae.
  • bellflower A flower of one of these plants, which is shaped like a bell.
  • bong (slang) Doorbell chimes.
  • bugle (brass instrument) A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
  • bugle A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
  • chime An individual ringing component of such a set.

bell — full definition

  1. noun A hollow metal instrument, often shaped like a cup, that rings when struck.
  2. verb To attach a bell to something.
  3. verb To flare out or take on a bell-like shape.

bong — full definition

  1. noun A water pipe used for smoking, often cannabis.
  2. noun A deep ringing sound, like that of a large bell.

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