"peal" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /piːl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-peal.wav [Southern-England] Forms: peals [plural]
Rhymes: -iːl Etymology: From Middle English pele, peil, probably an apheretic variant of Middle English apel, appel, from Old French apel (“an appeal; pealing of bells”). Compare appeal. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|pele}} Middle English pele, {{m|enm|peil}} peil, {{glossary|apheretic}} apheretic, {{der|en|enm|apel}} Middle English apel, {{m|enm|appel}} appel, {{der|en|fro|apel|t=an appeal; pealing of bells}} Old French apel (“an appeal; pealing of bells”), {{m|en|appeal}} appeal Head templates: {{en-noun}} peal (plural peals)
  1. A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc. Categories (topical): Sounds Translations (loud sound): звон (zvon) [masculine] (Belarusian), тътен (tǎten) [masculine] (Bulgarian), salva [feminine] (Czech), výbuch [masculine] (Czech), kumina (Finnish), kumu (Finnish), jylinä (Finnish), jyly (Finnish), jyrinä (Finnish), jyrähdys (Finnish), éclat [masculine] (French), Dröhnen [neuter] (German), Glüüt [Alemannic-German, neuter] (German), 雷鳴 (raimei) (Japanese), tangi pōhutu (note: of thunder) (Maori), estruendo [masculine] (Spanish) Translations (the sound of ringing bells): камбанен звън (kambanen zvǎn) (Bulgarian), vyzvánění [neuter] (Czech), zvonění [neuter] (Czech), picada [feminine] (Galician), badalada [feminine] (Galician), campanada [feminine] (Spanish), campaneo [masculine] (Spanish), tañido [masculine] (Spanish), repique [masculine] (Spanish), repiqueteo [masculine] (Spanish), dupikal (Tagalog), kalembang (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-peal-en-noun-lo-6bn24 Disambiguation of Sounds: 33 4 3 4 13 11 4 24 4 Disambiguation of 'loud sound': 91 4 5 Disambiguation of 'the sound of ringing bells': 41 32 28
  2. (collective) A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale. Tags: collective Categories (lifeform): Salmonids
    Sense id: en-peal-en-noun-tfxse13S Disambiguation of Salmonids: 4 34 3 23 2 15 13 2 3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 33 3 18 2 18 15 2 7
  3. The changes rung on a set of bells; in the strict sense a full peal of at least 5040 changes.
    Sense id: en-peal-en-noun-~7G5XUgc
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: dumb peal, peal of bells
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /piːl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-peal.wav [Southern-England] Forms: peals [plural]
Rhymes: -iːl Etymology: Uncertain. Etymology templates: {{unc|en}} Uncertain Head templates: {{en-noun}} peal (plural peals)
  1. A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin. Synonyms: peel
    Sense id: en-peal-en-noun-ZpNSBFMd
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /piːl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-peal.wav [Southern-England] Forms: peals [present, singular, third-person], pealing [participle, present], pealed [participle, past], pealed [past]
Rhymes: -iːl Etymology: From Middle English pele, peil, probably an apheretic variant of Middle English apel, appel, from Old French apel (“an appeal; pealing of bells”). Compare appeal. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|pele}} Middle English pele, {{m|enm|peil}} peil, {{glossary|apheretic}} apheretic, {{der|en|enm|apel}} Middle English apel, {{m|enm|appel}} appel, {{der|en|fro|apel|t=an appeal; pealing of bells}} Old French apel (“an appeal; pealing of bells”), {{m|en|appeal}} appeal Head templates: {{en-verb}} peal (third-person singular simple present peals, present participle pealing, simple past and past participle pealed)
  1. (intransitive) To sound with a peal or peals. Tags: intransitive Translations (to sound with a peal): ἠχέω (ēkhéō) (Ancient Greek), զրնգալ (zrngal) (Armenian), еча (eča) (Bulgarian), звъня (zvǎnja) (Bulgarian), zvonit [imperfective] (Czech), vyzvánět [imperfective] (Czech), hlaholit [imperfective] (Czech), kumistaa (Finnish), soittaa [transitive] (Finnish), kumista (Finnish), soida [intransitive] (Finnish), pere (Maori)
    Sense id: en-peal-en-verb-AoonBRyT Disambiguation of 'to sound with a peal': 83 12 0 5 0
  2. (transitive) To utter or sound loudly. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-peal-en-verb-Bj~FAz0o
  3. (transitive) To assail with noise. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-peal-en-verb-Qu6PQ9J6
  4. (intransitive) To resound; to echo. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-peal-en-verb-TE3ubu~6
  5. (obsolete) To appeal. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-peal-en-verb-nLwOlWn9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: peal out
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy",
          "text": "And she has half a mind to weep again now, for Jack Brotherhood, as the front doorbell sounds through the house like a bugle call, three short peals as ever.",
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          "word": "výbuch"
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          "_dis1": "91 4 5",
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          "lang": "Finnish",
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          "_dis1": "91 4 5",
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          "_dis1": "91 4 5",
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          "_dis1": "91 4 5",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
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          "_dis1": "91 4 5",
          "code": "fr",
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          "sense": "loud sound",
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          "word": "éclat"
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          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "raimei",
          "sense": "loud sound",
          "word": "雷鳴"
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          "_dis1": "91 4 5",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "note": "of thunder",
          "sense": "loud sound",
          "word": "tangi pōhutu"
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          "_dis1": "91 4 5",
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          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "the sound of ringing bells",
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          "sense": "the sound of ringing bells",
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          "_dis1": "41 32 28",
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          "sense": "the sound of ringing bells",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "repique"
        },
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          "_dis1": "41 32 28",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "the sound of ringing bells",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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        },
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          "_dis1": "41 32 28",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "the sound of ringing bells",
          "word": "dupikal"
        },
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          "_dis1": "41 32 28",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "the sound of ringing bells",
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          "ref": "1908, H. B. Walters, chapter 1, in Church Bells",
          "text": "Ingulphus, the chronicler of Croyland Abbey, mentions that a peal of seven bells was put up there in the tenth century, and that there was not such a harmonious peal in the whole of England; which implies that rings of bells were then common.",
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        "(collective) A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale."
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        "collective"
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        "The changes rung on a set of bells; in the strict sense a full peal of at least 5040 changes."
      ],
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          "changes rung",
          "ring the changes"
        ]
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    },
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          "ref": "1864, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christmas Bells",
          "text": "Then pealed the bells more loud and deep...",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "1939 [1905], “In My Merry Oldsmobile”, Vincent P. Bryan (lyrics), Gus Edwards (music), performed by Bing Crosby",
          "text": "To the church we'll swiftly steal, then our wedding bells will peal, / You can go as far you like with me, in my merry Oldsmobile",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 September 11, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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        "(intransitive) To sound with a peal or peals."
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          "roman": "eča",
          "sense": "to sound with a peal",
          "word": "еча"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 12 0 5 0",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "zvǎnja",
          "sense": "to sound with a peal",
          "word": "звъня"
        },
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          "_dis1": "83 12 0 5 0",
          "code": "cs",
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          "sense": "to sound with a peal",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
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          "word": "zvonit"
        },
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          "_dis1": "83 12 0 5 0",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to sound with a peal",
          "tags": [
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        },
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          "_dis1": "83 12 0 5 0",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to sound with a peal",
          "tags": [
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 12 0 5 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to sound with a peal",
          "word": "kumistaa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 12 0 5 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to sound with a peal",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "soittaa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 12 0 5 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to sound with a peal",
          "word": "kumista"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 12 0 5 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to sound with a peal",
          "tags": [
            "intransitive"
          ],
          "word": "soida"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 12 0 5 0",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "ēkhéō",
          "sense": "to sound with a peal",
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      "sense": "loud sound",
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      "word": "雷鳴"
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        "(obsolete) To appeal."
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/db/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-peal.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-peal.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "zrngal",
      "sense": "to sound with a peal",
      "word": "զրնգալ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "eča",
      "sense": "to sound with a peal",
      "word": "еча"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zvǎnja",
      "sense": "to sound with a peal",
      "word": "звъня"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to sound with a peal",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "zvonit"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to sound with a peal",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "vyzvánět"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to sound with a peal",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "hlaholit"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to sound with a peal",
      "word": "kumistaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to sound with a peal",
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "word": "soittaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to sound with a peal",
      "word": "kumista"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to sound with a peal",
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "word": "soida"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "ēkhéō",
      "sense": "to sound with a peal",
      "word": "ἠχέω"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to sound with a peal",
      "word": "pere"
    }
  ],
  "word": "peal"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 1-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English terms with homophones",
    "English terms with unknown etymologies",
    "Rhymes:English/iːl",
    "Rhymes:English/iːl/1 syllable",
    "en:Salmonids",
    "en:Sounds"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en"
      },
      "expansion": "Uncertain",
      "name": "unc"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Uncertain.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "peals",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "peal (plural peals)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "salmon",
          "salmon"
        ],
        [
          "grilse",
          "grilse"
        ],
        [
          "sewin",
          "sewin"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/piːl/"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "peel"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːl"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-peal.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/db/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-peal.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-peal.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/db/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-peal.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-peal.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "peel"
    }
  ],
  "word": "peal"
}

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