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  • noun Plural form of bell.
  • noun nautical Ship's bells; the strokes on a ship's bell, every half hour, to mark the passage of time.

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Examples

  • She says the department has decided to forego what she called bells and whistles like mobile detection machines, but she could not tell me how many machines ultimately the department will buy -- Lou.

    CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2007 2007

  • Ben and Tom credit producer Gil Norton with reigning in their pension to over-indulge in what they call the bells and whistles.

    Gomez: 'How We Operate' 2006

  • The clanging of the bells is another curious circumstance.

    Three Months in the Soudan 1885

  • And the soul of Yeats, long imprisoned in that golden effigy, was delivered as well, and he and Junius together passed as a breeze into that undiscovered country, from whence the voice of a woman sang, where there grow grapes and nectarines of metaphysical proportions, and where the tolling of the iron bells is only a distant, silvery echo. from → Stories

    The Soul of Yeats « Unknowing 2009

  • Breaking up the “too big to fail” banks in the same way as MaBell was broken up into the baby bells is a wonderful idea.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 22, 2010 2010

  • It is funny because some afternoons I hear the bells from the church at the same time I hear the call for Muslim prayer.

    April 23, 2009 Anna 2009

  • It is funny because some afternoons I hear the bells from the church at the same time I hear the call for Muslim prayer.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Anna 2009

  • Space between the 2 bells is about l/2 difference, which is about the distance I need to move the front ring back to me.

    How Good is Good Enough? 2008

  • Each one of the hundreds of thin bone china bells is unique: subtly altered by organic firing variations; each has a distinctive shape and acoustic tone.

    Susurrus Chandelier by Item 2008

  • I brought in bells to show the kids, and a picture of a sleigh.

    when in doubt, throw hard candy 2007

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