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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doorbell/#m1)

2) The sound it makes (I heard the doorbell). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doorbell/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doorbell/#x1)
- Ring the doorbell and wait for someone to come. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doorbell/#x2)
- If you're home alone, don't open the door to strangers when the doorbell rings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doorbell/#x3)
- Our doorbell plays a little tune. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doorbell/#x4)
- The video doorbell shows who is at the door on Mum's phone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doorbell/#x5)
- Pressing the doorbell closes the circuit and the bell rings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doorbell/#x6)
- Ringing doorbells and running away annoys people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doorbell/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/22/)
- [Ringing doorbells and running away can frighten people, and running near roads is dangerous.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/20/)
- [Not once — over and over, like a broken doorbell.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «doorbell» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doorbell/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.