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Belau
- noun - a chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean
Belay
- noun - fasten a boat to a bitt, pin, or cleat
- something to which a mountain climber's rope can be secured
- turn a rope round an object or person in order to secure it or him
Belch
- noun - a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth
- become active and spew forth lava and rocks; "Vesuvius erupts once in a while"
- expel gas from the stomach; "In China it is polite to burp at the table"
Belee
- - To place under the lee, or unfavorably to the wind.
Belem
- noun - port city in northern Brazil in the Amazon delta; main port and commercial center for the Amazon River basin
Belie
- verb - be in contradiction with
- Misrepresent
- represent falsely; "This statement misrepresents my intentions"
Belle
- noun - a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals; "she was the belle of the ball"
Bells
- noun - (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
- a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
- a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
- a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
- attach a bell to; "bell cows"
- English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
- the flared opening of a tubular device
- the shape of a bell
- the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells"
- United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)
Belly
- noun - a part that bulges deeply; "the belly of a sail"
- a protruding abdomen
- swell out or bulge out
- the hollow inside of something; "in the belly of the ship"
- the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis
- the soundboard area of a piano
- the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish