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Ringing   /rˈɪŋɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Ringing  n.  A & n. from Ring, v.
Ringing engine, a simple form of pile driver in which the monkey is lifted by men pulling on ropes.


verb
Ring  v. t.  (past rang; past part. rung; pres. part. ringing)  
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."
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 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..
To ring the bells backward, to sound the chimes, reversing the common order; formerly done as a signal of alarm or danger.


Ring  v. t.  (past & past part. ringed; pres. part. ringing)  
1.
To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle. "Ring these fingers."
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.


Ring  v. i.  (past rang; past part. rung; pres. part. ringing)  
1.
To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one. "Now ringen trompes loud and clarion." "Why ring not out the bells?"
2.
To practice making music with bells.
3.
To sound loud; to resound; to be filled with a ringing or reverberating sound. "With sweeter notes each rising temple rung." "The hall with harp and carol rang." "My ears still ring with noise."
4.
To continue to sound or vibrate; to resound. "The assertion is still ringing in our ears."
5.
To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame.


Ring  v. i.  (past & past part. ringed; pres. part. ringing)  (Falconry) To rise in the air spirally.





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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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