Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Ringing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
2. To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.
The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, Hath
rung night's yawning peal. --Shak.
3. To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
{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 {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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
2. (Hort.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to
girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.
3. To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a
swine's snout.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ringing \Ring"ing\,
a & n. from {Ring}, v.
{Ringing engine}, a simple form of pile driver in which the
monkey is lifted by men pulling on ropes.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
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