Generally speaking the word “doorbell” relates to a device, usually electric but occasionally purely mechanical, that mediates human interaction by providing an inhabitant with news of the arrival of a visitor, and the option to ignore it. There is another type of doorbell, like this set that dangles from inside the unlocked front gate of a friend’s home. When they ring, the door already has been opened. They are, in effect, a doorbell after the fact.
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