doorbell

«doorbell» in Mova's school dictionary: A bell or button by a front door that you press so the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a doorbell, doorbells)

meaning for a pupil

1) A bell or button by a front door that you press so the people inside know you are there. tree →

2) The sound it makes (I heard the doorbell). tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life it is how visitors announce themselves. In safety lessons: if you are home alone, don't open the door when the doorbell rings to someone you don't know — check through a window or ask through the door, or don't answer. Some doorbells have cameras (video doorbells). In science, an electric doorbell is a simple circuit with a switch (the button). Manners: ring once and wait; don't play «knock and run». Phrases: ring the doorbell, the doorbell rang, answer the doorbell, video doorbell.

examples

• The doorbell rang — it was the pizza! tree →
• Ring the doorbell and wait for someone to come. tree →
• If you're home alone, don't open the door to strangers when the doorbell rings. tree →
• Our doorbell plays a little tune. tree →
• The video doorbell shows who is at the door on Mum's phone. tree →
• Pressing the doorbell closes the circuit and the bell rings. tree →
• Ringing doorbells and running away annoys people. tree →

note

One word: doorbell. «Ring the doorbell» (not «press the bell» only — both are fine). Ring, rang, rung: The doorbell rang.

In the corpora

• Not everything people do is about you; a doorbell camera is a common gadget, not an insult.
• Ringing doorbells and running away can frighten people, and running near roads is dangerous.
• Not once — over and over, like a broken doorbell.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «doorbell» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.