{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.bell-event","code":"thing-bell-event","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/bell-event/","name":"bell","alternateNames":["toll","knell","angelus bell","angelus"],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.2.0-wave.4","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Activities and processes","entryKind":"noun.event","plane":"ACT","domain":["ACT.EVT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{"substance":"activity","origin":"conceptual","agency":"inert","mobility":"not-applicable","scale":"not-applicable","affordances":["observable"]}},"whatItIs":"In the WordNet sense, the sound of a bell being struck, a ringing tone used to mark time, call to worship, signal events or warn, with named forms the registry aliases include the toll, a slow measured ringing, the knell, a bell rung for a death or funeral, and the Angelus or Angelus bell, rung three times daily in Catholic tradition to call the faithful to prayer; bell sounds carry cultural and religious meaning, and change ringing is a distinct English tradition. 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