Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Ten decibels.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Fair; fine; beautiful.
- [Lit. fair, good, as in beausire, fair sir, beaupere, good father, used in F. and ME. to indicate indirect or adopted secondary relationship; so in mod. F. beau- as a formative in relation-names, ‘step-’, ‘-in-law’; ME. bel-, ‘grand-’, as in beldame, grandmother, belsire, grandfather, also with purely E. names, belmoder, belfader, and later belchild. Cf. Sc. and North. E. goodmother, goodfather, etc., mother-in-law, father-in-law, etc.] Grand-: a formative in relation-names, as belsire, grandfather, beldam, grandmother, etc. See etymology.
- n. Same as Belus.
- n. The East Indian name of the Bengal quince-tree, Ægle Marmelos. See Ægle, 1.
- n. A simplified spelling of bell.
Wiktionary
- n. A measure of relative power, defined as log10(P 1/P 2), where P1 and P2 are the measured and reference power respectively. See also decibel.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The Babylonian name of the god known among the Hebrews as
Baal . See Baal. - n. A thorny rutaceous tree (Ægle marmelos) of India, and its aromatic, orange-like fruit; -- called also
Bengal quince ,golden apple ,wood apple . The fruit is used medicinally, and the rind yields a perfume and a yellow dye. - n. a unit of sound intensity equal to ten decibels.
WordNet 3.0
- n. Babylonian god of the earth; one of the supreme triad including Anu and Ea; earlier identified with En-lil
- n. a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels
Etymologies
- Named after Alexander G. Bell (Wiktionary)
- After Alexander Graham Bell. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I called the bel air police department and they said it was a meteor”
“And said "you’re moving with your aunte and uncle in bel-air”
“As the 19th century progressed, Italian composers Rossini (pictured right), Donizetti and Bellini continued to compose lyrical scores – their writing privileged the expressive power of the human voice in what has become known as the bel canto (beautiful singing) style.”
“Acclaimed "La Stupenda,"– "the Stupendous One"– during a career spanning more than four decades, Sutherland was known in the opera world as an "anti-diva" diva whose warm vibrant sound and subtle coloring helped revitalize the school of early 19th-century Italian opera known as bel canto.”
The Huffington Post: Joan Sutherland Dies: Famed Soprano Dead At 83
“Samt und Säbel aka Captain Sinister's Lady, by Darlene Marshall, is now available from RandomHouse.de.”
“In a few pages he examines their laws and history, and concludes, "We are compelled to acknowledge that what is called the bel age of Greece was a time of pain and torture for humanity.”
“The flowers terminate the ftalks on a pretty long divided footftalk, in a kind of litjle Um - bel, which is nodding at firft but becomes ereft, fup - porting five or fix round, pentagonal, depreffed cap - fules, filled with fmall feeds.”
“Although the words "bel" and "bon" blended together throughout the song, the audience still understood the light, airy tone.”
“bel," and received with her the house of Gravebury, which she and her former husband had held.”
“Hitting logs and exponents once more (though it's getting tiresome - to me and I'm sure for everybody else), where do the units "bel" come from a LOG (I / I”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bel’.
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phrontistery - b
List of words from phrontistery.info
babeldom, baccate, bacchanal, bacciferous, bacciform, baccivorous, bacillicide, backstay, bactericide, baculiform, baculine, baculum and 582 more...
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Palabras de 3 letras en Español.
¡La única lista que también incluye flexiónes verbales y pluralizaciones! Ayúdame a encontrarlas todas.
(Por ser una lista para Scrabble, los dígrafos ll, rr, y ch valen como una sola ...aba, aca, aga, ahe, ahi, aho, aja, aje, aji, ajo, ala, ale and 427 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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use•ful
palmary, glossolalia, bothum, high-proof, synesthesia, odious, autochthonous, yawp, mordacious, dynamo, dishevel, titely and 414 more...
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Metrica
spat, bel, darwin, parsec, neper, shekel, mina, planck length, hogshead, solar mass, kalpa
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ruzuzu "2. Lit. fair, good, as in beausire, fair sir, beaupere, good father, used in F. and ME. to indicate indirect or adopted secondary relationship; so in mod. F. beau- as a formative in relation-names, ‘step-’, ‘-in-law’; ME. bel-, ‘grand-’, as in beldame, grandmother, belsire, grandfather, also with purely E. names, belmoder, belfader, and later belchild. Cf. Sc. and North. E. goodmother, goodfather, etc., mother-in-law, father-in-law, etc. Grand-: a formative in relation-names, as belsire, grandfather, beldam, grandmother, etc."
--Century Dictionary Mar 25, 2011