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- noun Plural form of
doorbell . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
doorbell .
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Examples
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Archaeology and historical data reveal that such dogs were bred to be household dogs, born to be "doorbells" and "garbage disposals" (eat table scraps and unused food) then to do their final duty as an ingredient in the Mole 'or enchilada.
Chihuahua vs. Cougar 2009
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Archaeology and historical data reveal that such dogs were bred to be household dogs, born to be "doorbells" and "garbage disposals" (eat table scraps and unused food) then to do their final duty as an ingredient in the Mole 'or enchilada.
Chihuahua vs. Cougar 2009
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Supports software implementations of control plane oriented functions such as doorbells and messages
Lattice Announces Serial RapidIO 2.1 AMC Evaluation Platform - Yahoo! Finance 2010
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Hearing Alert Dogs - Alert people with a hearing loss to the presence of specific sounds such as doorbells, telephones, crying babies and fire alarms.
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-- Supports software implementations of control plane oriented functions such as doorbells and messages
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Still, you seem to get something out of your nightly forays here, ringing doorbells and trying to sell your singular vision of what ails America and finding no buyers.
Think Progress » Profit-Seeking Palin Reportedly Rips CPAC As A Profiteering Convention 2010
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Many of the people occupying Wall Street and other cities around the country or engaging in related actions rang doorbells, made phone calls and gave small contributions as part of a massive grassroots movement to elect Barack Obama.
Miles Mogulescu: The Krugman/Stiglitz Army Is on the March (and It's Too Late for Michael Bloomberg to Stop It) Miles Mogulescu 2011
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Loud kids (and adults), strangers, scary costumes, and doorbells and knocks at the door, can quickly send your dog into a frenzied state.
Brianne DiSylvester: How To Keep Your Dog Safe and Happy This Halloween Brianne DiSylvester 2010
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Loyalty is directed by Edward Hall in a tumultuous cacophony of bleeps and special ringtones and ordinary telephone purrings and burglar-alarm yowls and sirens and doorbells which, unusually, catches the aural confusion of personal and public demands.
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So don't get naked and run screaming through the streets ringing doorbells.
Michael Lutin: Blame Democrats? Republicans? Or Saturn and Pluto? Michael Lutin 2011
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