Ring \Ring\ (r[i^]ng), v. t. [imp. Rang (r[a^]ng) or Rung
(r[u^]ng); p. p. Rung; p. pr. & vb. n. Ringing.] [AS.
hringan; akin to Icel. hringja, Sw. ringa, Dan. ringe, OD.
ringhen, ringkelen. [root]19.]
1. To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic
body; as, to ring a bell.
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2. To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.
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The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums,
Hath rung night's yawning peal. --Shak.
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3. To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
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To ring a peal, to ring a set of changes on a chime of
bells.
To ring the changes upon. See under Change.
To ring in or To ring out, to usher, attend on, or
celebrate, by the ringing of bells; as, to ring out the
old year and ring in the new. --Tennyson.
To ring the bells backward, to sound the chimes, reversing
the common order; -- formerly done as a signal of alarm or
danger. --Sir W. Scott.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ring \Ring\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ringed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Ringing.]
1. To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle.
"Ring these fingers." --Shak.
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2. (Hort.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to
girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.
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3. To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a
swine's snout.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ringing \Ring"ing\,
a & n. from Ring, v.
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Ringing engine, a simple form of pile driver in which the
monkey is lifted by men pulling on ropes.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ringing
adj : having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected;
"a reverberant room"; "the reverberant booms of cannon"
[syn: reverberant] [ant: unreverberant]
n 1: the sound of a bell ringing; "the distinctive ring of the
church bell"; "the ringing of the telephone"; "the
tintinnabulation that so volumnously swells from the
ringing and the dinging of the bells"--E. A. Poe [syn: ring,
tintinnabulation]
2: the giving of a ring as a token of engagement
3: having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of
being resonant [syn: plangency, resonance, reverberance,
sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy]
WordNet (r) 2.0
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "ringing":
booming, change ringing, chime, chiming, chink, clang, clanging,
clangor, clank, clanking, clink, consonant, deafening, ding,
ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging, dingle, donging, ear-piercing,
ear-rending, ear-splitting, earthshaking, forte, fortissimo, full,
jangle, jingle, jingle-jangle, jingling, knell, knelling, loud,
loud-sounding, loudish, orotund, peal, peal ringing, pealing,
piercing, plangent, resounding, ring, rotund, round, sonorous,
sounding, stentoraphonic, stentorian, stentorious, thunderous,
ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling,
tinnitus, tintinnabular, tintinnabulary, tintinnabulous, toll,
tolling, tonitruant, tonitruous, vibrant, window-rattling
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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