What does DOORBELL mean?

Definitions for DOORBELL
ˈdɔrˌbɛl, ˈdoʊr-door·bell

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. doorbell, bell, buzzernoun

    a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed

Wiktionary

  1. doorbellnoun

    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.

  2. doorbellnoun

    A button that actives an electric doorbell.

  3. doorbellverb

    To ring many doorbells in an effort to contact people and thereby spread information or solicit.

  4. doorbellverb

    To ring many doorbells of (target people or an area) in an effort to contact people and thereby spread information or solicit.

    We doorbelled the whole district in an effort to get out the vote.

Wikipedia

  1. Doorbell

    A doorbell is a signaling device typically placed near a door to a building's entrance. 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 connected to a bell, modern doorbells are electric, operated by a pushbutton switch. Modern doorbells often incorporate intercoms and miniature video cameras to increase security.

Wikidata

  1. Doorbell

    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 electric — they are actuated by an electric switch. A precursor to the electric doorbell, specifically a bell that could be rung at a distance via an electric wire was invented by Joseph Henry around 1831. An early patent for an electric door bell, patent 237,455, was obtained in 1881 by Edwin Swan of Indiana for an "illuminated electric push button".

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of DOORBELL in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of DOORBELL in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of DOORBELL in a Sentence

  1. Nathan Phillips:

    If you smell it, it’s already a potentially dangerous situation and even ringing a doorbell or making a cell phone call or any small spark in an environment that has gas you can smell can lead to combustion, you get everyone out of the house first, and then you make the phone call after you’re outside your house.

  2. Anonymous:

    Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

  3. Susan Pfannmuller/AP Crump:

    Nobody can tell us if the roles were reversed, and you had a Black man shoot a White 16-year-old teenager for merely ringing his doorbell that he would not be arrested, i mean, this citizen went home and slept in his bed at night after shooting that young Black kid in the head.

  4. Susan Pfannmuller/AP Crump:

    He merely rang the doorbell. That was it, and the owner of the home shoots through the door, hitting him in the head and then shoots him a second time.

  5. Interim Police Chief Ed Kraus:

    My intent was to meet with Aaron Dean today to terminate Aaron Dean employment with the Fort Worth Police Department. However, the officer tendered his resignation this morning before we met, even though he no longer works for the city, we will continue the administrative investigation as if he did. The case will be completed and reviewed by the chain of command. NEIGHBOR WHO CALLED 911 ABOUT JEFFERSONS HOME SAYS ALL THEY NEEDED TO DO IS RING THE DOORBELL Bouquets of flowers and stuffed animals piling up outside the Fort Worth home on Monday, where a 28-year-old black woman was shot and killed by a white police officer. ( AP).

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