Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Ten decibels.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
Belus . - 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 inbeldame , 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. - noun The East Indian name of the Bengal quince-tree, Ægle Marmelos. See
Ægle , 1. - noun A simplified spelling of
bell .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The Babylonian name of the god known among the Hebrews as
Baal . SeeBaal . - noun A thorny rutaceous tree (
Ægle marmelos ) of India, and its aromatic, orange-like fruit; -- called alsoBengal quince ,golden apple ,wood apple . The fruit is used medicinally, and the rind yields a perfume and a yellow dye. - noun a unit of sound intensity equal to ten decibels.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A measure of
relative power , defined as log10(P 1/P 2), where P1 and P2 are the measured and reference power respectively. See alsodecibel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Babylonian god of the earth; one of the supreme triad including Anu and Ea; earlier identified with En-lil
- noun a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels
Etymologies
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Examples
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I called the bel air police department and they said it was a meteor
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And said "you’re moving with your aunte and uncle in bel-air"
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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.
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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.
Joan Sutherland Dies: Famed Soprano Dead At 83 The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Samt und Säbel aka Captain Sinister's Lady, by Darlene Marshall, is now available from RandomHouse.de.
Darlene's Digest Darlene 2007
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Samt und Säbel aka Captain Sinister's Lady, by Darlene Marshall, is now available from RandomHouse.de.
Archive 2007-08-01 Darlene 2007
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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 Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth 1894
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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.
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Although the words "bel" and "bon" blended together throughout the song, the audience still understood the light, airy tone.
Silver Chips Online 2009
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"bel," and received with her the house of Gravebury, which she and her former husband had held.
Chaucer's Official Life James Root Hulbert 1926
ruzuzu commented on the word bel
"2. 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.'>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
March 25, 2011