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Ringing

noun

The sound of a bell ringing. Synonyms: ring, tintinnabulation. "The ringing of the telephone" , "The tintinnabulation that so voluminously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells"

The giving of a ring as a token of engagement.

Having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant. Synonyms: plangency, resonance, reverberance, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy.

Ring

verb

(when related to sound: past rang; past part. rung; pres. part. ringing) (when related to circles: past & past part. ringed; pres. part. ringing)

Sound loudly and sonorously. Synonym: peal.

Ring or echo with sound. Synonyms: echo, resound, reverberate.

Make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification. Synonym: knell. "My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church"

Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone. Synonyms: call, call up, phone, telephone. "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning"

Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle. Synonyms: border, environ, skirt, surround.

Attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify. Synonym: band. "Band the geese to observe their migratory patterns"

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"Ringing" Quotes from Famous Books

... character would have to be of a catastrophic nature, in which experience does not encourage us to put much faith. It was, indeed—as Dryden pointed out in a passage quoted above[2]—one of the foibles of our easy-going ancestors to treat character as practically reversible when the time approached for ringing down the curtain. The same convention survives to this day in certain forms of drama. Even Ibsen, in his earlier work, had not shaken it off; witness the sudden ennoblement of Bernick in Pillars of Society. But it can scarcely be that sort of "development" ...

— Play-Making - A Manual of Craftsmanship • William Archer

... electric gong, Fig. 2, which rings as long as the armature revolves. It is a simple matter so to proportion the mechanism for the required distance and speed that the revolutions of the armature and the ringing of the gong shall continue until the train reaches the crossing; and as each wheel acts upon the apparatus, the more wheels there are in the train the longer the bell will ring, a very convenient property, since the slowest trains have nearly always the most wheels. The practical ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 • Various

... became a nightmare. He was not sure whether he heard the yell of rage and disappointment behind him as the posse discovered that the bird had flown or whether the sound existed only in his own ringing head. But one thing was certain—they would not trail Andrew Lanning recklessly in the night, not even with the moon ...

— Way of the Lawless • Max Brand

... bring you a handful for your hair," I told her, and leaned over farther, farther, reaching out.... Then I was falling, with Kelvar's face growing fainter, and in my ears a horrible ringing like the world ...

— Out Around Rigel • Robert H. Wilson

... me sail, Full freighted on a faerie sea; I hear the silken merchants hail Across the ringing waves to me ...

— Spirits in Bondage • (AKA Clive Hamilton) C. S. Lewis

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