"Ask not for whom the bell tolls" is a popular cliche. My understanding is that it comes from John Donne's Meditation XVII (1623). But in Donne's poem, the line is any man's death diminishes me,
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For example, he struck a bell when the dogs were fed. If the bell was sounded in close association with their meal, the dogs learnt to associate the sound of the bell with food. After a while, at the mere sound of the bell, they responded by drooling. Another possible origin is the one this page advocates:
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If you wanted to describe the sound of a small brass bell that you can hold in your hand (this is an example image of what I mean - what word would you use? Brrring? Bling?
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A person working in an Indian supermarket was shocked when I told her it's called Bell Pepper in the US, UK, Canada and Ireland. I had to pull out Wikipedia to convince her it was true. (Probably because she associated pepper with the spice.) What is the historical/etymological explanation for this divergence in names between countries?
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The sound of Big Ben over the radio was traditionally rendered "Bong" (and sometimes referred to as the bongs, though I wouldn't recommend that in a normal context). Church bells are supposed to go "Ding-dong" when rung, e.g., for a wedding. I have seen the sound of a full peal rendered "Tin-tan-din-dan-bim-bam-bom-bo" (Dorothy Sayers, if I remember correctly), but, again, would hesitate to ...
Interjection for the sound of a bell - English Language & Usage Stack ...
A bicycle bell is a percussive signaling instrument mounted on a bicycle for warning pedestrians and other cyclists. Wikipedia says that a bicycle bell produces a "ding-ding" sound, and so, since I'm not sure that "ding-ding" sound is the better choice currently in use, I wonder whether there is a single term with which one can more properly ...
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The usage of “lint” in computing is derived by analogy from the more common and traditional usage of lint referring to clothing, as suggested below: Stephen C. Johnson, a computer scientist at Bell Labs, came up with the term "lint" in 1978 while debugging the yacc grammar he was writing for C and dealing with portability issues stemming from porting Unix to a 32-bit machine. The term was ...
1 A bell or a metal bar or tube, typically one of a set tuned to produce a melodious series of ringing sounds when struck. 1.1 A melodious ringing sound produced by striking a set of chimes. ‘I hear the chimes of the hour from the courthouse’ (Oxford There is a corresponding verb form.
What's the word to refer to the "ringing" sound of the bell in Japanese ...
Personally I like "You can't unring that bell" as deadrat mentioned above. The phrase refers to the fact that you can't un-hear a bell that has been rung. There's a nice essay about its history here: Unring the Bell (impossibility of taking back a statement or action)
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