ringing

ringing
    n 1: the sound of a bell ringing; "the distinctive ring of the
         church bell"; "the ringing of the telephone"; "the
         tintinnabulation that so voluminously swells from the
         ringing and the dinging of the bells"--E. A. Poe [syn:
         {ring}, {ringing}, {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}, {ringing}, {sonorousness}, {sonority},
       {vibrancy}]
    

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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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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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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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