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doorbell::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bell, buzzer |
| Type of | button, push, push button |
| Has types | night bell |
Examples of doorbell
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Finally, he rang her doorbell and told her he couldn't see his life without her.
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She was about to call 911 when Chris Wuebben rang the doorbell with their pizza.
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Moreno can offer up sounds like a doorbell, bird chirps and a steamboat whistle.
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I listened for the doorbell because I've read my share of Nicholas Sparks novels.
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I must have punched her doorbell 10 times in a row before Luce opened her door.
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When the neighborhood girls ring your doorbell, order an extra couple of boxes.
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A few hours later, I heard the doorbell and saw a stranger standing at my door.
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I would make a doorbell app, so I could see who's knocking and easily let them in.
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Days later, Clements answered the doorbell at his house and was shot in the chest.
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- A push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
- A doorbell is a signaling device typically placed near an entry door to a building. When a visitor presses a button the bell rings inside the building, alerting the occupant to the presence of the visitor. Although the first doorbells were mechanical, activated by pulling a cord, modern doorbells are electricu00A0u2014 they are actuated by an electric switch.
- Il campanello or Il campanello di notte (The Night Bell) is a melodramma giocoso, or opera, in one act by Gaetano Donizetti. The composer wrote the Italian libretto after Mathieu-Barthu00E9lemy Troin Brunswick and Victor Lhu00E9rie's French vaudeville La sonnette de nuit. The premiere took place on 1 June 1836 at the Teatro Nuovo in Naples and was "revived every year over the next decade".
- A device on or adjacent to an outer door for announcing one's presence. It can be mechanical, directly sounding a bell, or a button that electrically sounds a chime or buzzer inside the building; A button that actives an electric doorbell; To ring many doorbells in an effort to contact people ...
- Adorable. My friend Cindy uses this term. After having had it grate on me for, like, years, it grew on me. The grating scars healed. What grew in its place was a sort of a warm spot. So I asked her if I could use it on this site. Found out it wasn't her term to coin! It was someone else's. ...
- A device that uses an electromagnet to ring a bell.
